The 2018 coalition agreement has been finalised, and the 12th of 13 chapters outlines the ideas of the fourth Merkel cabinet on “Germany’s responsibility...
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German Security Architecture
A Backward Roll in Exports? The Coalition Agreement Does Not Solve Problems Concerning the Bundeswehr and the German Arms Industry
Forward, Resilience! – Ideas on how to Strengthen Resilience in Germany
When the Federal Government’s White Paper on security policy and the future of the Bundeswehr was published in July 2016, it came as no surprise that...
What is Resilience? Ambiguities of a Key Term
The term “resilience” has been mentioned repeatedly in connection with the recent vicious terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels and Orlando. It has been said...
Refuge and migration: organisational, administrative and logistic challenges
The chaos in the first weeks
On some days in October 2015, telephone conferences held by the Federal Ministry of the Interior with the representatives of...
Germany’s Enable & Enhance Initiative: what is it about?
“Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure nor so free” – thus begins the 2003 European Security Strategy. Twelve years later, that sense of optimism...
