Vita
Dr Tobias Fella is Researcher at the Berlin office of the IFSH. In the Berlin Office, he heads the trilateral Challenges to Deep Cuts project, which is funded by the German Foreign Office. Previously, he was a foreign and security policy advisor at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), project coordinator and research fellow at the Hertie School, and fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). In 2022, Tobias Fella held an ongoing series of lectures and workshops for the German Armed Forces on the political, military and economic aspects of the war in Ukraine. In the process, he prepared selected units for their deployment in Lithuania as part of NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence. Tobias Fella holds a PhD in political science from the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he researched the idea of American decline in neoconservative thinking, and a Magister Artium in political science, history and law from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is an alumnus of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Research Profile | Current Projects
Tobias Fella’s research focuses on arms control and global strategic stability under conditions of great power rivalry, conventional and nuclear deterrence, NATO-Russia relations, transatlantic security, and China’s nuclear build-up. His articles and commentaries have appeared in German and international media and magazines such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The National Interest.
Selected Publications
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Fella, Tobias. 2022.
Preventing Preemptive Superpower Suicide: Neokonservative Logik und Amerikas Niedergang.
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Fella, Tobias. 2019.
The Response to Trump: Emancipation!.
In: Bonn International Security Forum 2018 – Full Report, hrsg. von Center for International Security and Governance, 50-51. Bonn: CISG
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Fella, Tobias. 2018.
Die Antwort auf Trump: Emanzipiert euch!.
In: Der Standard, Kommentare der anderen -
Fella, Tobias. 2019.
Ein Bekenntnis zur nuklearen Teilhabe.
In: FAZ.net -
Fella, Tobias. 2018.
A Nuclear Armed Germany Would Be a Mistake.
In: The National Interest
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Fella, Tobias. 2018.
Das Gespenst der deutschen Bombe.
In: IPG, Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik -
Fella, Tobias,
Christian Hacke. 2019.
Bomba o non bomba, dibattito sull'atomica tedesca.
In: Limes – Rivista Italiana Di Geopolitica 12 -
Fella, Tobias. 2018.
Le spectre de la bombe allemande: Pourquoi il est irresponsable d’évoquer une nucléarisation de la Bundeswehr.
Paris: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. -
Borkenhagen, Franz H. U.,
Michael Bröning,
Hans-Georg Ehrhart,
Tobias Fella,
Helmut W. Ganser,
Michael Hofmann,
Alexander Kallweit,
Anna Maria Kellner,
Wulf Lapins,
Marius Müller-Hennig,
Detlef Puhl,
Jürgen Schnappertz,
Oliver Thränert. 2015.
Neue digitale Militärtechnologien und autonome Waffensysteme. Die Zukunft der Kriegsführung.
Internationale Politikanalyse. Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
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Borkenhagen, Franz H. U.,
Michael Bröning,
Hans-Georg Ehrhart,
Tobias Fella,
Helmut W. Ganser,
Michael Hofmann,
Alexander Kallweit,
Anna Maria Kellner,
Wulf Lapins,
Marius Müller-Hennig,
Detlef Puhl,
Jürgen Schnappertz,
Oliver Thränert. 2015.
Les nouvelles technologies militaires numériques et les systèmes d'armes autonomes: L'avenir de la guerre.
Analyses et documents. Paris: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.