Dr. Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters is a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow in Fall 2025.
Dr. Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters is Assistant Professor for European Security at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Her research is at the intersection of European security and global governance. She is particularly interested in examining transatlantic security cooperation with a focus on the EU-NATO relationship. Previously, she was Lecturer at Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany, and DAAD Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. Nele holds a doctorate from the University of Kent and degrees from the University of Bath and University of Bremen.
Nele’s research project at AGI explores the rationales and objectives behind states’ decision to initiate and establish so-called minilateral security cooperation (MSC) frameworks alongside existing multilateral security organizations such as NATO and the European Union. While multilateral organizations have faced increasing pressures and contestations as well as political deadlocks and bureaucratic obstacles, states have opted for alternative forms of security cooperation. Her project thus seeks to examine and compare the approaches to establishing MSC by Germany and the United States.
Her research has been published with the British Journal of Politics and IR, Defence Studies, European Security, and German Politics. Nele is the author of Understanding EU-NATO Cooperation: How Member States Matter (Routledge, 2022) and co-editor of NATO 2030: Towards a New Strategic Concept and Beyond (Brookings, 2021).
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