Stephanie Hofmann

Non-Resident Fellow
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Stephanie Hofmann
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Stephanie Hofmann holds the Joint Chair in International Relations and is director of the Europe in the World research area at the Robert Schuman Centre, both at the European University Institute. Her research revolves around organisational expressions of multilateralism, international and transatlantic security, global ordering, and national preference formation processes.

With regards to European policymaking, she has devoted a lot of attention to the ideological foundations of European security preferences, how public opinion manifests itself in this policy domain, and how European security organizations have co-evolved and impacted one another.

Defense

European Defense Expenditure: Does the EU and its Member States try Harder than We Think?
2024

While defense procurement and production remain fragmented across Europe and the EU and its member states invest less in their security and defense than the US, new EU and EU-sponsored initiatives demonstrate that Europeans are aware of this and attempt to reduce these shortcomings – political and fiscal obstacles notwithstanding.