Event Date: November 22, 2013 - 12:00 pm

CONSTANZE STELZENMÜLLER, German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Presented by CIPS. 

Amid the global financial and debt crisis, Germany has become the object of heightened expectations from neighbors and partners, not least because of its economic success. Its new government will have to deal responsibly with Germany’s power and increasing expectations of German leadership. In the fall of 2012, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP/German Institute for International and Security Affairs) assembled 45 experts on foreign and security policy to discuss challenges for German foreign and security policy in a series of conferences and workshops through mid-2013. The outcome of their deliberations, a report entitled “Neue Macht, Neue Verantwortung” (“New Power, New Responsibility”) was published in October 2013. Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller will discuss the report’s perspectives and recommendations for Germany’s international role, strategic relationships, and security policy.

Constanze Stelzenmüller is a Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund in Berlin. Previously, she was Director of GMF’s Berlin office (2005-2009), and a reporter and international security editor with the weekly DIE ZEIT in Hamburg (1994-2005). She is an international lawyer by training. She writes about a broad spectrum of issues, including German and European foreign and security policy, transatlantic relations, and defense. She is regularly inter­viewed and quoted in European and American news media. She chairs the German section of Women in International Security and the academic advisory council of the German Foundation on Peace Research.

Documents:

1. ”New Power, New Responsibility: Elements of a German foreign and security policy for a changing world”, a report produced by the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Click here ReportNewPowerNewResponsibility

2. ”Europe On its Own: How the Crisis-Ridden Continent will Respond to a Decade of U.S. Retrenchment: Three Scenarios”, an article by Constanze Stelzenmüller published in The EuroFuture Project in June 2012. Click here Stelzenmueller_EuropeOnItsOwn

3. ”The West Runs Out of Power”, an article by Constanze Stelzenmüller published in Policy Review in April-May 2012 (No.172). Click here Stelzenmüller Policy Review