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The EU and ASEAN have diverging priorities in climate, security, technology, trade, and democracy. Stronger cooperation in these fields would enable the two blocs to tackle shared challenges and pursue common interests.
Germany’s National Security Strategy is a step in the right direction. But it lacks clear priorities, an institutional underpinning, and budgetary planning.
On Wednesday, Germany released its first comprehensive national security strategy. Here to tell us what’s in it and what it means is Sophia Besch. Sophia is a fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she focuses on European defense policy.
World War II and its aftermath shaped Berlin’s approach toward NATO, the EU, and Moscow. Russia’s war on Ukraine ends that era.
Join Carnegie for a conversation featuring Dan Baer, Chan Heng Chee, Yawei Liu, and Paul Haenle on the state of China-EU relations. This panel is the fourth of the Carnegie Global Dialogue Series 2022–2023 and will also be recorded and published as a China in the World podcast.
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany’s international role has undergone radical shifts. Berlin’s new National Security Strategy puts “integrated security” at its core and calls for internal unity, proactiveness, and solid international partnerships.
Germany’s new Feminist Foreign Policy guidelines seek to anchor gender equality in different areas of German foreign policy. But they also raise hard questions about what it means to put these feminist principles into practice—particularly in light of security concerns raised by the war in Ukraine.
Since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany’s energy and defense policies have transformed. Berlin must now push for a more integrated, resilient Europe.
The U.S. has had to take on a really strong disciplinary role in organizing the European response.
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