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Constanze Stelzenmüller

Director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution

Dr Constanze Stelzenmüller is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. She is an expert on German, European, and trans-Atlantic foreign and security policy, as well as international law and human rights. From 2019 to 2020, Dr Stelzenmüller held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress and served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings (2014-19). Previously, she directed the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund of the US and later served as senior transatlantic fellow. Dr Stelzenmüller’s work in the think tank sphere follows a distinguished career in journalism, including the role of defence and international security editor at DIE ZEIT. She is a frequent commentator on American and European news outlets and writes a monthly column for The Financial Times.
Subjects:
Brexit, China, Defence, Democracy, Europe, European Union, Germany, Migration, NATO, Populism, Russia, Security, Terrorism, Transatlantic relations, United States, USA, West
Updated: April 25, 2022

Agenda

No Man Is Rich Enough to Buy Back His Past: Perceptions of the US
LMC 2023
Incipit Vita Nova – So Begins New Life
LMC 2023
European Union, NATO
Dragging Our Cart Uphill Together? NATO@70 and the Army of Europeans
LMC 2019
Transatlantic relations, USA
Eighteen Months of Trump Foreign Policy: Right Direction Wrong Track?
LMC 2018
Defence, Migration, NATO, Russia, Terrorism
Geography and Threat: Should NATO Mind the East/South Gap?
LMC 2018
Brexit, Democracy, European Union, Populism, United States
People Have the Power: Can Democracy Survive Populism?
LMC 2017
5 more

Articles

U.S. President Joe Biden at the EU-U.S. summit in Brussels in June 2021. Relieving the U.S. of some of the burden of European defense means giving the Biden administration more leeway to protect democracy at home, Constanze Stelzenmüller argues.
China, Democracy, Europe, Germany, Russia, Security, Transatlantic relations, USA
America Is Back, but… Europe and Especially Germany Need To Do Much More for European Security

It took President Joe Biden nearly five months before he made his first trip abroad in June, to Europe; he had more important things to do. Arguably, that is still the case today.

Constanze Stelzenmüller
LMC 2021

In the news

‘No peace without accountability for aggression’: Russian invasion of Ukraine must lead to European security rethink

Arab News, May 14, 2023