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Ulrike Franke

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Dr Ulrike Franke is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Her areas of focus include German and European security and defence, the future of warfare, and the impact of new technologies such as drones and artificial intelligence on geopolitics and warfare. Dr Franke has published widely on these and other topics, among others in Die Zeit, FAZ, RUSI Whitehall Papers, Comparative Strategy, War on the Rocks, Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, and regularly appears as commentator in the media. She co-hosts the Sicherheitshalber Podcast, a German-language podcast on security and defence.
Subjects:
China, Climate, Defence capabilities, Digitalisation, Europe, European Union, France, Future, Germany, Identity, Migration, Military tehcnology, Technology
Updated: August 24, 2021

Agenda

The Awful Shadow of Some Unseen Power: War in Cyber Space
LMC 2023
China, Technology
China. Vincere Est Vivere: To Conquer Is to Live
LMC 2021
Europe, France, Germany
Unity of Principles: France and Germany in a Changing Europe
LMC 2019
Climate, European Union, Future, Identity, Migration, Technology
The Future Is in Our Hands
LMC 2019
Digitalisation, Future, Technology
Brave New World: Utopia or Dystopia?
LMC 2018

Articles

Soldiers pass a US unmanned remotely piloted aircraft MQ-1 Predator during a guest day at Lielvarde airbase, south-east of Riga, Latvia, on 8 September 2015. Latvia had confirmed a week before that two US Army Predator surveillance drones and 70 airmen had deployed to the base for a training mission. The name Predator may have been inspired by the movie featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Defence capabilities, Military tehcnology
On Science Fiction and Warfare: Thinking Outside the Box

Public views and perceptions of technology are influenced by science fiction.

Ulrike Franke
LMC 2018

Quotes