Katharina Emschermann and Kai Oppermann discuss Europe’s “top risk” in 2021 – the German Federal Election and its foreign policy implications.
In the third episode of the “Berlin Security Beat”, the Centre for International Security's podcast, Dr. Katharina Emschermann, Deputy Director at the Centre, speaks with Kai Oppermann, Professor for International Politics at the Chemnitz University of Technology and an expert on German Foreign Policy and the dynamics of coalition governments.
They discuss the German Federal Election and its foreign policy implications, a potential coalition between the conservative CDU and the Greens, Germany as “civilian power”, and the reasons for Germany's non-participation in the 2011 Libya intervention.
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