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Jana Treffler is an MA Student in political science at Freie Universität Berlin. She was an intern at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Tunisia, where she started researching Germany’s security involvement in the region. She is co-author of a forthcoming paper on Germany’s Enable and Enhance Initiative in Tunisia to be published by EuroMeSCO. She is working at the foundation of Coop4Med, a Euro-Mediterranean Think Tank for young scholars. Her research interests are Euro-Mediterranean politics, migration, as well as feminist and decolonial perspectives in security studies. Treffler holds an interdisciplinary Bachelor’s degree in political science, French literature and public law from Freie Universität Berlin and spent two terms at Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
What is Germany Bringing to Tunisia’s Security Sector?
Tunisia is an important security partner for Germany, and a key part of the Federal Republic’s enhanced security involvement in the MENA region. Germany is due to release a new strategy for working on security sector assistance and reform abroad, which will give direction to work in Tunisia and elsewhere. Examining how Germany has performed according its own stated principles in Tunisia highlights policy points for this new strategy, covering greater commitment to governance, gendered security and transparency. With German security spending on the rise, there is a lot to play for.
