Claudia Major has a doctorate in political science from the University of Birmingham (UK), and is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the Free University of Berlin. She heads the Security Policy research unit at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin (SWP). She is also a member of the Advisory Council for Civilian Crisis Prevention at the German Federal Foreign Office.
In this interview with IHEDN on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, she gives her views on the European defence industrial base, the long-term structural change caused on the continent by this conflict, and long-term security guarantees for Ukraine: "The idea is to have a kind of network that irrevocably links Ukraine to transatlantic structures".
She also comments on the Franco-German defence relationship, which she has studied for a long time: "In the past, the Franco-German couple was necessary and sufficient. Now, the Franco-German compromise is still necessary, but it is no longer sufficient.
