Vita

Frank Evers is researcher at the IFSH and has been deputy head of CORE since 2004. From 2000 to 2001, he worked as Economic and Environmental Adviser at the OSCE Office in Yerevan (Armenia). In 2001, he was one of the founders of the Yerevan Århus Centre - the first of more than sixty environmental centers in the Europe-wide Århus network working to implement the UNECE Convention of the same name. From 1996 to 1999, he was Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Ukraine and Head of the Mission’s branch office in Simferopol (Crimea), later Deputy OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine.  He studied telecommunications, Eastern European studies and economics in Russia and Germany. He graduated from the Free University of Berlin, where he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Russia’s privatization campaign in 1996.

Research Profile | Current Projects

Frank Evers is responsible for OSCE-related projects at CORE in the areas of political consultancy, training and capacity building. He mainly works on implementing projects commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office and other foreign ministries. His working focus is related to the structures and policy approaches of the OSCE.  His specialist areas range from OSCE conflict management and transnational security issues such as civil radicalization prevention in the religious sphere, to the economic and environmental dimension. He deals with structural and operational OSCE matters, from field operations and OSCE Institutions to co-operation with organizations such as the Council of Europe. Regionally, his work focuses on Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. His professional achievements include leading contributions to designing and establishing the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, the Diplomatic Academy in Yerevan, the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions, and special CORE training courses for Incoming OSCE Chairmanships.

 

Selected Publications

  • Evers, Frank, Cornelius Friesendorf, Regina Heller, Argyro Kartsonaki. 2024.
    Russia’s War Against Ukraine and the End of Cooperative Security in Europe.
    In: European Security in Times of Crisis: Perspectives from Peace Research, edited by Holger Niemann, Ursula Schröder, 35-52. DOI: 10.25592/ifsh-research-report-014.
  • Evers, Frank, Argyro Kartsonaki. 2021.
    Introduction.
    In: The Future of the OSCE: Government Views, hrsg. von Frank Evers, Argyro Kartsonaki, 63-67. OSCE Insights 2021. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. DOI: 10.5771/9783748911456-05.
  • Evers, Frank, Argyro Kartsonaki. 2021.
    Введение.
    In: Будущее ОБСЕ: подходы правительств, hrsg. von Франк Эверс Аргиро Картсонаки, 73-78. ОБСЕ Insights 2021. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. DOI: 10.5771/9783748911463-05.
  • Evers, Frank, Argyro Kartsonaki. 2022.
    Einleitung.
    In: Die Zukunft der OSZE: Die Interessen von Regierungen, hrsg. von Frank Evers, Argyro Kartsonaki, 71-75. OSCE Insights 2021. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. DOI: 10.5771/9783748911449-05.
  • Evers, Frank, Argyro Kartsonaki. 2021.
    Введение.
    In: Будущее ОБСЕ: подходы правительств, hrsg. von Франк Эверс Аргиро Картсонаки, 73-78. ОБСЕ Insights 2021. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. DOI: 10.5771/9783748911463-05.
  • Evers, Frank, Argyro Kartsonaki. 2022.
    Einleitung.
    In: Die Zukunft der OSZE: Die Interessen von Regierungen, hrsg. von Frank Evers, Argyro Kartsonaki, 71-75. OSCE Insights 2021. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. DOI: 10.5771/9783748911449-05.
  • Evers, Frank, André Härtel, Marietta S. König. 2020.
    Enhancing Cooperation Between the OSCE and the Council of Europe.
    In: OSCE Insights 2020, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg/ IFSH, 129–141. Baden-Baden: Nomos. DOI: 10.5771/9783748922339-09.
  • Evers, Frank, Marietta S. König. 2021.
    Укрепление сотрудничества между ОБСЕ и Советом Европы.
    In: ОБСЕ Insights 2020, edited by Институт исследования проблем мира и политики безопасности при Университете Гамбурга, 149-163. Baden-Baden: Nomos. DOI: 10.5771/9783748921264-09.
  • Evers, Frank, André Härtel, Marietta S. König. 2021.
    Vorschläge für eine engere Zusammenarbeit zwischen OSZE und Europarat.
    In: OSCE Insights 2020, edited by Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg/ IFSH, 139-153. Baden-Baden: Nomos. DOI: 10.5771/9783748911630-09.
  • Evers, Frank, Marietta S. König. 2021.
    Укрепление сотрудничества между ОБСЕ и Советом Европы.
    In: ОБСЕ Insights 2020, edited by Институт исследования проблем мира и политики безопасности при Университете Гамбурга, 149-163. Baden-Baden: Nomos. DOI: 10.5771/9783748921264-09.
  • Evers, Frank, Marietta S. König. 2021.
    Укрепление сотрудничества между ОБСЕ и Советом Европы.
    In: ОБСЕ Insights 2020, edited by Институт исследования проблем мира и политики безопасности при Университете Гамбурга, 149-163. Baden-Baden: Nomos. DOI: 10.5771/9783748921264-09.
  • Evers, Frank, Jeannette Klötzer, Arne C. Seifert, Esther Somfalvy. 2018.
    Civilian Prevention of Radicalization in Central Asia.
    CORE Working Paper 30. Hamburg.