Gesine Weber is a PhD Candidate at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London and Research Analyst at the Paris Office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Her research addresses European security and defence with a particular focus on new formats of defence cooperation, EU-UK relations, the E3 (France, Germany, UK), and Europe’s role on the geopolitical chessboard. She is also an Associate Researcher for the European Council on Foreign Relations and regularly speaks and publishes on the areas of her expertise in English, French and German.