How should Germany position itself in a rapidly evolving security landscape?
Germany faces a rapidly evolving and complex security landscape, with challenges emerging from both allies and adversaries. Drawing on one of her recent publications with the German National Foundation (Deutsche Nationalstiftung), Marina Henke, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for International Security at the Hertie School, will explore Germany’s grand strategic options in this high-stakes environment. She will be joined by Heinrich Brauss, former lieutenant-general of the Bundeswehr and NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, to discuss how Germany can and should position itself going forward. The discussion will be chaired by Agata Klaus, Managing Director of the Deutsche Nationalstiftung.
This event is a collaboration between the Deutsche Nationalstiftung and the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security.
Speakers
Discussants
Marina Henke is Professor of International Relations at the Hertie School and Director of the Centre for International Security. She researches and publishes on grand strategy, nuclear security and European security and defence policy. Before joining the Hertie School, she was an Associate Professor (with tenure) at Northwestern University, specialising in international relations, as well as at Princeton University where she was a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She holds a PhD in Politics and Public Policy from Princeton University.
Heinrich Brauss is a retired Lieutenant General of the Bundeswehr. From October 2013 to July 2018, he served as NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, as well as Head of the Defence Policy and Planning Division in the NATO International Staff and Chairman of the Defence Policy and Planning Committee of the North Atlantic Council. Today, he is a Senior Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the board of the German Atlantic Association, and a member of the Senate of the Deutsche Nationalstiftung.
Chair
Agata Klaus is the Managing Director of the Deutsche Nationalstiftung. She has a great passion for democracy and civil society. After studying art history in Heidelberg and Hamburg, she worked for the ZEIT-Stiftung Bucerius, the Hanne Darboven Foundation, and the Körber Foundation before assuming the management of the German National Foundation five years ago.
