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Boris Rüge

Boris Ruge

Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy of NATO

Ambassador Boris Ruge became NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy in September 2023. From September until December 2024, he served as Acting Deputy Secretary General of NATO. He previously served as Vice Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Director for the Middle East/North Africa at the Foreign Office in Berlin, German Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and Deputy Ambassador to the US. Having joined the Foreign Service in 1989, much of Amb Ruge’s career has been focused on security policy. He worked at NATO Headquarters in Brussels during the Kosovo air campaign and later served as Chief Political Advisor to two successive Commanders of the Kosovo Force. Amb Ruge also served as Head of the Political Department at the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Subjects:
Authoritarianism, Brexit, China, Defence, Europe, European Union, Foreign Policy, Germany, NATO, Russia, Security, Transatlantic relations, Ukraine, United States
Updated: March 13, 2022

Agenda

A Bridge Over Troubled Water: The Next Chapter of Transatlantic Cooperation
LMC 2026
Authoritarianism, China, Europe, NATO, Russia, Transatlantic relations, Ukraine, United States
A Friend in Me: Transatlantic Relations
LMC 2022
Brexit, Defence, European Union, Security
The EU27 and Global Britain. Semper ad Meliora? Always Towards Better Things?
LMC 2021

Articles

Defence, Foreign Policy, Germany
Zeitenwende in Germany’s Foreign Policy?

Has Germany’s foreign policy undergone a fundamental and permanent shift? The answer might be found in six tests.

Boris Ruge
LMC 2022

In the news

The great reluctance – how can Germany’s lack of leadership vis-a-vis Russian aggression in Ukraine be explained?

the Lithuania Tribune, July 26, 2022

INTERVJUU ⟩ Müncheni julgeolekukonverentsi asejuht: USA vabariiklasi ei tohi jätta tähelepanuta

Postimees, October 5, 2021

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