Areas of Expertise

• Rule of Law, Good Governance, Public International Law, Constitutional Law
• International Organizations, UN, EU, OSCE
• Southeast European Security Issues
• Great Power Competition and COVID-19

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., International Relations, University of Vienna
• Master of Law, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein

Sebastian von Münchow, Ph.D., joined the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in August 2012. He serves as the course director of the seminar on EU and NATO Cooperation.

Prior to joining the Marshall Center, von Münchow served with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in field missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo, where he led the legislative reform section. He also worked with the European Union Police Assistance Mission in Tirana.

Later, in Brussels, he joined the Office of the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, where he led several initiatives to strengthen the justice and home affairs sectors in the Balkans. Upon returning to Germany, he spent several years at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, focusing on security policy, parliamentary oversight, and counterterrorism issues