Publikationen: DGAPbericht

Looking East, Looking West: Key Challenges - Facing the Atlantic Partners

von Anita Hurrell (eds.)
Veröffentlicht am 26. Februar 2008.

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On November 15 and 16, 2007, the German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik – DGAP) hosted a high-level conference in cooperation with the American Council on Germany (ACG) and the Council for the United States and Italy (CUSI). The DGAP’s Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies worked with American and Italian partners to bring together prominent decision-makers and commentators from business, politics, and journalism to assess the most important challenges confronting the transatlantic partners. The discussion was broadly oriented around two principal issues: the transatlantic economy and world trade, and common transatlantic foreign policy challenges.

From Conflict to Regional Stability - Linking Security and Development

von Kathrin Brockmann, Hans Bastian Hauck, Stuart Reigeluth (eds.)
Veröffentlicht am 10. Februar 2008.

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The International Forum on Strategic Thinking is DGAP’s main instrument for promoting young professionals and scholars in the area of foreign and security policy. Its annual New Faces Conferences gather 20 promising young professionals and scholars pursuing an active career in international organizations, government, NGOs, think tanks and academia.

International Summer School 2007: Complex Challenges, Comprehensive Responses

von Kathrin Brockmann, Hans Bastian Hauck (eds.)
Veröffentlicht am 06. Dezember 2007.

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The link between international security and development constitutes a nexus that is only beginning to be understood and addressed by the international community and by regional security and development actors. During the International Summer School, participants and renowned speakers examine the complexity of contemporary development and security challenges, such as transnational warfare, terrorism, poor governance and state failure, migration and resource conflicts, as well as the transformation of traditional security and development concepts and policies (human security paradigm etc.). New interfaces between security and development (e.g. the concept of Security Sector Reform) and the need for an integrated approach to address global challenges are discussed. In this light, efforts and strategies of global actors like the EU, US, NATO, UN and OSCE as well as sensitivities and prospects for cooperation are assessed. Case studies on Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Balkans provide regional insights to the topic.

Europe and America: Managing the 21st Century’s Agenda

von William Nuland
Veröffentlicht am 24. Oktober 2007.

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On June 14 and 15, 2007 the DGAP in conjunction with its Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies and the Transatlantic Relations Program hosted the International Conference “Europe and America: Managing the 21st Century’s Agenda.” The conference brought together leading European and American thinkers for a two-day discussion on the development of Transatlantic Relations within the context of rapidly changing geopolitical realities. The conference explored the degree of commonality between European and American values in various policy arenas, rather than approaching debates from the conventional standpoint that Euro-American relations necessarily maintain core similarities. Its mission was expressed within the opening remarks of Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider, director of the DGAP research institute. Prof. Dr. Sandschneider opened with the observation that the days in which transatlantic cooperation could be taken for granted are over: a relationship that has experienced recent diplomatic pitfalls, been subject to the rise of unanticipated political forces and exposed to new challenges must be reflected upon. By way of officially welcoming conference participants, he asked rhetorically, “Is there truly a common transatlantic agenda?”

NFC 2006: Security in a Globalized World

von Kathrin Brockmann, Hans Bastian Hauck (eds )
Veröffentlicht am 23. Oktober 2007.

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The end of the Cold War brought with it the end of the traditional, bipolar geo-strategic model of explaining world affairs. “Feindbilder,” which used to be defined in geographical terms (“East” vs “West”), have been replaced by security threats perceived to be truly global and functional in nature, yet regional in origin: Terrorism and proliferation, migration, organized crime and corruption or, at the root level, the lack of democracy and good governance in certain parts of this world. The realization that in today’s globalized and interlinked world regional conflicts can have global fallout has increased the need for policy analysts to better understand the highly complex nature of different regional security dynamics. For policy makers, the question is how to address regional security issues efficiently and effectively.