Foreign & Security Policy

The wall of International Peace - Arbat Quarter - Moscow

photo by Jeff Bauche (creative coomons license)

Global Security and Foreign Policy

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the transatlantic dialogue on foreign and security policy has intensified. The perceptions of new threats and global challenges have led to increased cooperation as well as to an intensified strategic debate. The world has apparently become more insecure.

Failed states, asymmetric conflicts, international terrorism, nuclear proliferation but also climate change are new threats for which we seem ill prepared. Our Foreign and Security Program focuses on new policies and institutions as well as on selected regional conflicts such as the Middle East and Afghanistan.

For more information, please contact Sebastian Gräfe at Sebastian.Graefe[at]us.boell.org

Regional Security & Conflict

Dossier - Perspectives/Africa

Perspectives: Political Analysis and Commentary from Africa

Perspectives is a publication series of the Africa offices of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung. With this series, we intend to let experts from Africa express their views about current political issues in their region. Perspectives focuses on Southern- , East- and West Africa where the foundation has established offices.

Policy Paper

A Stable Afghanistan? Training Soldiers is Not Enough

- April 26, 2013 - Western governments look like they are turning their back on Afghanistan after a decade of aid and assistance but this is a dangerous approach, as history shows. Sebastian Gräfe more»

Video

Understanding Iranian Public Opinion

- October 19, 2012 - In the midst of bombastic rhetoric exchanged among Iran, Israel, and Western states over the nuclear issue, Iranian public opinion is seldom heard on topics such as the nuclear program, international sanctions, and a potential military strike. Where do the Iranian people stand? Watch the discussion of Iranian Public Opinion hosted by HBF and the Stimson Center.
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Europe & Transatlantic Relations

Article

Diversity and Community: On the Future of the European Union

November 16, 2012 - When we speak of the future of the EU, it’s about more than saving the Euro. The question is whether Europe wishes to remain relevant as a strategic actor. If it does, then we must strengthen internal solidarity, as well as our capacity to act externally. Ralf Fücks more»

Interview

The American Presidential Election from a Czech Perspective

- November 2, 2012 - An interview with Jan Jireš, director of the Prague Centre for Transatlantic Relations at the CEVRO Institute, for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Prague, October 2012.
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Policy Paper

Saving for Germany?

- December 20, 2011 - The European crisis is not only a Euro or financial crisis, it also has far reaching political implications. In his article Rainer Emschermann analyses the political dynamics while Europe is struggling for ways to solve its deepest crisis since the foundation of the European Union. Rainer Emschermann more»