Articles for tag: Bundeswehr, Deutsche Außenpolitik, Sicherheitsstrategie

“Juridified” Control

I argue that there should be a greater separation of powers with regard to foreign deployments than has been the case to date. In addition to the actors who have so far been primarily involved in decisions on foreign deployments – the German Federal Government and Bundestag – the German Federal Constitutional Court should also be given a clearer basis of responsibility for clarifying constitutional issues that have arisen. In this way, the constitutional framework can be made more concrete and strengthened in the long term.

22. März 2022

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„Notwendig, aber nicht gut“

„Wir sind in einer anderen Welt aufgewacht“, sagte die grüne Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock wenige Stunden, nachdem Russland den Überfall auf die Ukraine begonnen hatte. Baerbock hatte sich über den russischen Präsidenten keine Illusionen gemacht. Deshalb spricht aus ihrem Satz nicht Naivität, die einige Kommentatoren ihr vorwarfen. Während des Bundestagswahlkampfs forderten nur die Grünen, die Pipeline Nord Stream 2 nicht in Betrieb zu nehmen. Die russlandfreundlichen Anwandlungen von einst, die sich vor allem aus antiamerikanischen Ressentiments speisten, hat die Partei abgelegt.

21. März 2022

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„An Ever-Stronger Union“ Under the Radar of the European Public

The intergovernmental political mode of EU defense policy is no longer appropriate for the level of European integration in this policy field, the development of which will significantly shape the European project in the coming years. In particular, it is necessary that the European Parliament and the national parliaments be informed of upcoming political decisions in a substantive and timely manner: They should be informed as long as the political process is still open, and their position should be a constituent part of decision-making at the EU level.

21. März 2022

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German Arms Exports as Part of a Coherent Foreign and Security Strategy

The analysis of Germany’s strategic restraint to date is of double importance for German arms export policy. First, what has been and continues to be apparent here is a strategic reticence in the sense of a strategy deficit and, above all, a deficit in the culture of debate – both with regard to parliament and to the general public and the media. Additionally – and here lies the difference to Germany’s general military restraint – Germany, and all German governments in recent years and decades, have supplied war weapons and other armaments to all regions of the world on a very substantial scale, without such a basis for discussion, strategy or action.

20. März 2022

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Coalitions, Activities, Strategies

The Federal Republic’s previous policy of ‘strategic restraint’ has been justified mainly - and rightly - on historical grounds; however, it also has to do with the legal parameters set by international security law and the German constitutional law on military affairs. We should take this legal framework into account when we explore the options for a fundamental reorientation of security and defence policy and a departure from ‘strategic restraint’.

19. März 2022

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The End of Germany’s Strategic Restraint

In a special session of the German Bundestag on February 27, 2022, on the occasion of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the federal government announced nothing less than a realignment of the Federal Republic of Germany's long-standing security and defense policy principles. The decisions taken by the Government replaced the "culture of strategic restraint" that had for decades characterized German decision-making in foreign, security and defense policy with a more active, independent and robust foreign policy role.

18. März 2022

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Security Strategy after the Zeitenwende: Institutions, Law, Politics

Under the shock of the Russian invasion, what the security community has long been calling for in vain is now taking shape: a security strategy through which Germany takes on more responsibility in the field of security and defense policy. The decisions taken by the German government on 27 February 2022, which are widely regarded as a Zeitenwende or „turning point“ in security policy, marked a first step.

18. März 2022

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Sicherheitsstrategie nach der Zeitenwende: Institutionen, Recht, Politik

Unter dem Schock der russischen Invasion gewinnt Kontur, was von der sicherheitspolitischen Community seit langem vergeblich gefordert wurde: eine Sicherheitsstrategie, mit der Deutschland verteidigungspolitisch mehr Verantwortung übernimmt. Die Beschlüsse der Bundesregierung vom 27. Februar 2022, allseits als sicherheitspolitische "Zeitenwende" eingeordnet, markierten einen ersten Schritt. Jetzt ist zu fragen, was diese Beschlüsse für die zukünftige sicherheits- und verteidigungspolitische Positionierung Deutschlands, für Bündnisse, Auslandseinsätze, Rüstungsexportpolitik und vieles mehr bedeuten.

18. März 2022

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