Bernt Berger

Bernt Berger1

Citizenship: German
Position at SIPRI: Senior Researcher
Subject expertise: International and regional security; terrorism; non-traditional security issues; China and neighbouring regions; peacekeeping and peace-building; security sector reform and security-society nexus; multilateral security organizations; domestic influences on foreign and security policy; EU foreign and security policy.
Regional expertise: China, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Burma
Languages: English, German, Mandarin
Contact: Email, Phone: +46 8 655 97 55

Bernt Berger is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI China and Global Security Programme. He has almost two decades of work and study experience in China including hands-on work in political development. Besides in work on China he has combined his expertise in security studies and East and Southeast Asia. During his work at SWP in Berlin he intensively engaged in policy advise among Ministries, Parliament and the Government. His recent work involves China’s foreign and security policy in the neighbourhood including Burma, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Furthermore he focused on regional security in East Asia, EU-China relations and developments inside China. Bernt Berger has lived in China for 4 years. He has carried out professional travel to more than 20 countries. At SIPRI he has taken up research on science and technology transfers between Europe and China.

Current activities at SIPRI
  • Senior Researcher at the SIPRI Programme on China and Global Security
Former positions
  • Researcher, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin 2009-2011
  • Research Fellow, Institute for Asian Studies at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, 2007-2008
  • Visiting Fellow, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, China, 2005
  • Researcher (& Research-Fellow), Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, Hamburg 2002-2009
Recent publications (selection)
  • ‘Limited engagement – China and the economic reconstruction of Afghanistan’ in Riecke, H. (ed.) Partners for Stability - Involving Neighbors in Afghanistan’s Reconstruction, (DGAP, Nomos, 2011)
  • ’Much ado in maritime Asia – China, the US and the challenge of a security architecture in East Asia’ (German), (SWP-Aktuell A03, 2011)
  • ’China as regional partner of Afghanistan? Beijing’s limited engagement and long-term interests in the neighbourhood’ (German), (SWP-Aktuell A 40, 2010)