Winfried Schneider-Deters

Winfried Schneider-Deters studied economics at Heidelberg University. Since 2004, he is retired and works as a freelance author in Heidelberg and Kyiv. Previously, Schneider-Deters directed national and regional projects of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Latin America, Eastern and Central Asia, as well as the Southern Caucasus. From 1996 to 2000, he headed the Foundation’s Kyiv cooperation office. His previous books include Die Europäische Union, Russland und Eurasien: Die Rückkehr der Geopolitik [The EU, Russia and Eurasia: The Return of Geopolitics] (co-edited with P. Schulze and H. Timmermann; BWV 2008) and Die Ukraine: Machtvakuum zwischen Russland und der Europäischen Union [Ukraine: Power Vacuum between Russia and the EU] (BWV 2012, 2014). His papers have been published in, among other outlets, Osteuropa, Neue Gesellschaft: Frankfurter Hefte, The European, Euromaidan Press, and Ukraine-Analysen.