Foreign & Security Policy

The wall of International Peace - Arbat Quarter - Moscow

photo by Jeff Bauche (creative coomons license)

Global Security and Foreign Policy

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the transatlantic dialogue on foreign and security policy has intensified. The perceptions of new threats and global challenges have led to increased cooperation as well as to an intensified strategic debate. The world has apparently become more insecure.

Failed states, asymmetric conflicts, international terrorism, nuclear proliferation but also climate change are new threats for which we seem ill prepared. Our Foreign and Security Program focuses on new policies and institutions as well as on selected regional conflicts such as the Middle East and Afghanistan.

For more information, please contact Sebastian Gräfe at sebastian.graefe[at]boell.org

Regional Security & Conflict

Dossier

Climate - Migration - Security

Growing evidence of links between climate change, migration, and conflict raise plenty of reasons for concern and it’s time to start thinking about new answers to these multifaceted crisis scenarios. more»

Article

Pashtuns in Pakistan: Why the War on Terror is Being Lost

- December 19, 2011 - The Pashtuns are the ethnic majority in the border area of Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the Pakistani government is not caring about their issues. In the war on terror they often feel like cannon fodder. Syed Irfan Ashraf more»

Study

A Study of Pakistan’s Interests in Afghanistan: Fear and Prejudice

- October 25, 2011 - The importance of Pakistan for the West’s continuation of their unfortunate involvement in Afghanistan is now generally understood. Far less clear, probably for most of the actors involved, is what Pakistan wants in Afghanistan at all. Britta Peterson more»

Europe & Transatlantic Relations

Policy Paper

Saving for Germany?

December 20, 2011 - The European crisis is not only a Euro or financial crisis, it also has far reaching political implications. In his article Rainer Emschermann analyses the political dynamics while Europe is struggling for ways to solve its deepest crisis since the foundation of the European Union. Rainer Emschermann more»

Article

The Euro Area Must not Founder on the Narrow-Minded Approach of the German Government

- December 20, 2011 - Just before the start of the decisive crisis summit on the Euro, leading politicians of the SPD and Green party criticized Merkel's crisis management and demanded a radical rethinking from the German Chancellor. Renate Künast, Cem Özdemir, Claudia Roth, Jürgen Trittin, Sigmar Gabriel, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Peter Bofinger more»

Proposal

Solving the European Economic Crisis: Proposal of a "European Redemption Pact"

- December 15, 2011 - The proposal is part of the annual report of the German Council of Economic Experts, which advises the German government in economic problems. Leading economic experts support this proposal, which also has been endorsed by the Parliamentary Group of the Greens in the German Parliament. more»

Impressum

2/9	An Assessment of Iran's Upcoming Parliamentary Elections
2/17 &18	5th German Conference at Harvard - Exploring Germany's Ambiguous Relation to Leadership