Key expertise
Arms control, international arms trade, German & European arms export policies, transformation of war and warfare, modern military technology.
(Academic) education / CV:
Marius Bales joined BICC in April 2016. He holds a bachelor in Political Science and German Studies from the University of Trier and a master in Political Science from the University of Bonn. Marius has been working as a freelance journalist and did internships, among others, at BICC, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Research Department I: International Security and World Order) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Department K34: International cooperation culture; European affairs). Before joining the DFG-funded project on liquid warfare, he worked as a student assistant in the BMZ project on arms export control and was the co-editor of the Global Militarisation Index (GMI). As a PhD-researcher at BICC, he focuses on the question of how the proliferation of modern military technology transforms practices of warfare in the Gulf States. His regional focus is the Middle East.
Recent Publications:
- Bales, M. (2023). Yemen: Civil War as a Driver of Regional Arms Dynamic. In M. Eslami, & A. V. Guedes Vieira (Eds.), The Arms Race in the Middle East (pp. 209-224).: Springer, Cham.
- Bales, M., Heinze, M.-C., & Mutschler, M. (2023). Zooming in on the Yemen War - The Future of Warfare and Human Rights in the Middle East Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .
- Mutschler, M., & Bales, M. (2023). Liquid or Solid Warfare? Autocratic States, Non-State Armed Groups and the Socio-Spatial Dimension of Warfare in Yemen. Geopolitics, 10.1080/14650045.2023.2165915, 1-29.
- Bales, M., Brzoska, M., Ferl, A.-K., Hansel, M., Jakob, U., Kütt, M., Meier, O., Mutschler, M., Schörnig, N., Silomon, J., Wisotzki, S., & Wulf, H. (2021). Rüstungsdynamiken: Keine Rüstungskooperation ohne europäische Rüstungsexportkontrolle. In BICC, HSFK, IFSH, & INEF (Eds.), Friedensgutachten 2021 (pp. 94-115). Bielefeld: transcript.
- Anderl, F., Bales, M., Bliss, F., Brunke, L., Debiel, T., Mutschler, M., Scheper, C., Sondermann, E., Ulbert, C., & Vüllers, J. (2021). Nachhaltiger Frieden: Covid-19 und der Globale Süden. In BICC, HSFK, IFSH, & INEF (Eds.), Friedensgutachten 2021 (pp. 74-93). Bielefeld: transcript.
- Mutschler, M., & Bales, M. (2021). Globale Militarisierung. WeltTrends, 174 (April 2021), 40–45.
- Mutschler, M., & Bales, M. (2020). Global Militarisation Index 2020. Bonn: BICC.
- Bales, M., & Schellhammer, L. (2020, July). Syrian war at the crossroads. Curbing arms flow, imposing a no-fly zone and opening al-Yarubiyah border crossing (BICC Policy Brief series No. 4/2020). Bonn: BICC.
- Mutschler, M., & Bales, M. (2020). Global Militarisation Index 2019. Bonn: BICC.
- Bales, M., & Mutschler, M. (2019, February). Einsatz deutscher Rüstungstechnik im Jemen - Für ein umfassendes Waffenembargo gegen die Kriegskoalition (BICC Policy Brief series No. 2/2019). Bonn: BICC.
- Mutschler, M., & Bales, M. (2018, November). Global Militarisation Index 2018. Bonn: BICC.
- Mutschler, M., & Bales, M. (2017, October). Begründungspflicht statt laissez faire – Empfehlungen an die neue Bundesregierung für eine Reform der deutschen Rüstungsexportpolitik (BICC Policy Brief series No. 7/2017). Bonn: BICC.
- Bales, M., & Mutschler, M. (2016, October). After the first annual reports to the Arms Trade Treaty: How to overcome gaps and reporting deficits? (BICC Policy Brief series No. 4/2016). Bonn: BICC.
