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International Centre for Defence and Security

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Fritz Stern Chair, Brookings Institution

Constanze Stelzenmüller is an expert on German, European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. Prior to working at Brookings, she was a senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), where she directed the infl uential Transatlantic Trends survey program. From 1994 to 2005, she was an editor for the political section of the German weekly DIE ZEIT, where she had also served as defence and international security editor and covered human rights issues and humanitarian crises. Stelzenmüller’s essays and articles have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Financial Times, the International New York Times and Süddeutsche Zeitung. She is also a frequent commentator on American and European radio and television. Stelzenmüller is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation and a fellow of the Royal Swedish Society for War Sciences.
Subjects:
Brexit, China, Defence, Democracy, Europe, European Union, Germany, Migration, NATO, Populism, Russia, Security, Terrorism, Transatlantic relations, United States, USA, West
Updated: March 29, 2019

Agenda

Europe, NATO, Transatlantic relations
NATO at 60: Managed Decline or a New Lease of Life?
LMC 2009
NATO
NATO in Libya: What Are We in For?
LMC 2011
Europe, European Union, Germany
Lostpolitik: Can Germany Rise to Its Leadership Challenge?
LMC 2011
NATO, Transatlantic relations
Transatlanticism after the “Pivot”: Alliance, Partnership or Divergence?
LMC 2013
Europe, European Union, West
New Normal: The End of the West as We Know It?
LMC 2016
Brexit, Democracy, European Union, Populism, United States
People Have the Power: Can Democracy Survive Populism?
LMC 2017
3 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