Hannes Ebert

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Hannes Ebert is a research fellow and PhD candidate at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies. He currently investigates strategies of leadership and contestation in South Asia within the GIGA research project “Contested Leadership in International Relations: Power Politics in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and South America”.
Hannes recently served as associate research fellow at the China Study Centre of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. His previous work experience includes analyzing armed conflicts in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; investigating learning mechanisms in UN peace operations at the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin; and researching security governance in Pakistan at the German Institute of International and Security Affairs and the Collaborative Research Center 700 (SFB). He also worked as a research associate and program coordinator at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies.
Hannes holds a master’s in international relations theory from the London School of Economics and completed his undergraduate studies in political science at the Freie Universität in Berlin. As part of his studies at the FU, he spent a year abroad at the Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development in Geneva. He has received scholarships from the VolkswagenStiftung, German National Academic Foundation, Theodor Pfizer Foundation and the Swiss government.
Visiting Fellow
E-mail: ebert[at]giga-hamburg[dot]de
Phone: +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

Will Pakistan’s India Policy under Sharif Shift Strategically?

The May 2013 parliamentary elections in Pakistan led to a stable government under the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Prime Minister Sharif promised a shift of the country’s India policy. Given his track record, the current pressing economic and security imperatives and recent improvements in Indo-Pakistan trade relations, the popular optimism is understandable and the first steps of rapprochement are to be expected.

Published: November 2013
Strategic Analysis

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