Isabelle Maras | CIFE Research Team | Research on European Foreign and Security Policy

She studied political science, international relations, and European politics in Lyon, Frankfurt am Main, and Brussels. She holds two Master's degrees - one in European Politics and the other in Political Science - from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

Since 2004, Isabelle Maras has developed in-depth experience in European affairs in Brussels (European Commission, lobbying and consultancy work, youth projects funded by the EU), as well as in academic research on the European Union’s civilian crisis management and police reform. She pursued this research first at the ULB and later at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH, University of Hamburg) from 2007 to 2013.

From 2013 to 2016, she served as Project Director for the "European Dialogue" program (technical expert for the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs) at the Genshagen Foundation near Berlin. She then contributed to the activities of the Franco-German University in Saarbrücken from 2017 to 2021, acting as International expert fort partnerships (Expertise France/French Ministry for Foreign Affairs).

Since 2022, she has been Director of Education and Career Development at the Jean Monnet University in Saint-Étienne (Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region), where she also serves as SME for Security and Defense Education.

She is an alumna of the pioneering young leaders program "Franco-German Future Dialogue" (DGAP/IFRI, Robert Bosch Foundation) and of the European Security and Defence College.

Publications (selected):

MARAS, Isabelle as a co-contributor (2022), Final Report of the Weimar Task Force on the European Security Order, Körber Stiftung with Foresight Intelligence, October 2022.

MARAS, Isabelle (2020): "Die Deutsch-Französische Hochschule (DFH) und der Vertrag von Aachen: Dynamiken und gegenseitige Erwartungen" (article on the Franco-German Aachener Treaty's potential from the Franco-German University's perspective), Deutsch-Französisches Institut (DFI), Frankreich-Jahrbuch 2019, April 2020.

MARAS, Isabelle (2017): « Pour un programme d’« ambassadeurs d’échange franco-allemands »», research project « Les 100 propositions de la recherche/Présidentielles 2017 », Slate.fr, 19.03.2017,

MARAS, Isabelle (2016) : « Le Triangle de Weimar avant le sommet de l’OTAN de Varsovie », CIFE Policy brief n°39, Centre international de formation européenne – CIFE, 4.07.2016.

MARAS, Isabelle (2015): “France, Germany, Poland: Going beyond the symbolic to realize potential”, in: DEMESMAY, Claire, STARK, Hans, Opening up the Franco-German Dialogue. How Trialogues Can Enhance European Integration, DGAPanalyse 6, 9.06.2015, pp.15-17.

Experts Consultations and Dialogues (selected)

Körber Stiftung (with Foresight Intelligence), French contributor to the Weimar Task Force on the European Security Order, June and September 2022, Berlin.

Körber Policy Game, « Policy options for France in the EU in post-Covid-times », Körber Stiftung, 8-9 July 2020 (online), Berlin.

"Dialogue on Europe", Working Group Integration and Migration, Das Progressive Zentrum/Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin, Lisbon, Paris, Brussels, 2016-2018.

Documentary

TV documentary (as moderator and principal character, in German): "The long road towards Germany – Saarland and the reunification" - Saarländischer Rundfunk-SR/public TV channel, October 2020. Director: Rüdiger Mörsdorf.

Press and Interviews (TV and Radio) (selected)

Interview (quoted in online article, in French) in : Revue de culture générale « L´Éléphant », « En Allemagne, l’ère Merkel touche à sa fin », pp. 16-17, trimestriel n°35, Juillet 2021.

Live radio interview (in German): Bayerischer Rundfunk, radio program „Radiowelt“ „Regionalwahlen Frankreich - nach der zweiten Runde“, Moderation Stefan Kreutzer, 28.06.2021.

Interview (quoted in online article – in French) : « Élections européennes : en Allemagne, les partis traditionnels sur la sellette ? », Figaro.fr, 2.05.2019.

Live TV discussion (in German): TV programm SAARTALK on the European elections and the Franco-German relationship, with Professor Pascal Hector, Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR), 25.04.2019.

Live radio discussion (in French): radio program « CulturesMonde » on « Europe : la ligne de fracture (3/4) : Lune de miel ou battement de l’aile : l’avenir du couple franco-allemand », with Prof. Hélène Miard-Delacroix and Joachim Bitterlich, France Culture, 27.04.2017.

Panels and Online Discussions (selected)

Online-Diskussion (in German), “Frankreich nach der Wahl : Bleibt Frankreich regierbar?”, zusammen mit Dr. Yann Wernert, Policy Fellow am Jacques Delors Centre. Moderation: Jeanette Süß, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin beim Studienkomitee für deutsch-französische Beziehungen (Cerfa) am französischen Institut für internationale Beziehungen (Ifri), Partners: Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit, Bergische Universität Bonn mit dem Institut français Bonn, 16.07.2024.

Online-Diskussion (in German), “Frankreich hat gewählt „Die französische Präsidentschaftswahl (Folge 4)“, Partners: Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit, Bergische Universität Bonn mit dem Institut français Bonn, 25.04.2022.

Online-Diskussion (in German), „Was wir derzeit erleben, ist der Hirntod der NATO“ - Aktuelle Herausforderungen und Zukunft der Europäischen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik“, mit Dr. Claudia Major (SWP), Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Saarland, 29.09.2021.

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