Ulrike Franke

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Dr Ulrike Franke is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). She leads ECFR’s Technology and European Power initiative. Her areas of focus include German and European security and defence, the future of warfare, and the impact of new technologies such as drones and artificial intelligence on geopolitics and warfare. Dr Franke has published widely on these and other topics and regularly appears in the media. She co-hosts Sicherheitshalber, a German-language podcast on security and defence. She also teaches at Sciences Po Paris. Dr Franke holds a PhD in international relations from Oxford University and a double MA degree from Sciences Po and the University of St. Gallen. Dr Franke is a policy affiliate at the Governance of AI project at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. She also teaches at Sciences Po Paris.

Subjects:

China, Climate, Defence capabilities, Digitalisation, Europe, European Union, France, Future, Germany, Identity, Migration, Military tehcnology, Technology

Updated: August 24, 2021

Agenda

Back to the Future: The Emergence of a New Arms Race

LMC 2024

The Awful Shadow of Some Unseen Power: War in Cyber Space

LMC 2023

China, Technology

China. Vincere Est Vivere: To Conquer Is to Live

LMC 2021

Europe, France, Germany

Unity of Principles: France and Germany in a Changing Europe

LMC 2019

Climate, European Union, Future, Identity, Migration, Technology

The Future Is in Our Hands

LMC 2019

Digitalisation, Future, Technology

Brave New World: Utopia or Dystopia?

LMC 2018

Articles

Soldiers pass a US unmanned remotely piloted aircraft MQ-1 Predator during a guest day at Lielvarde airbase, south-east of Riga, Latvia, on 8 September 2015. Latvia had confirmed a week before that two US Army Predator surveillance drones and 70 airmen had deployed to the base for a training mission. The name Predator may have been inspired by the movie featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Defence capabilities, Military tehcnology

On Science Fiction and Warfare: Thinking Outside the Box

Public views and perceptions of technology are influenced by science fiction.

Ulrike Franke

LMC 2018

In the news

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