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    Constanze Stelzenmüller

    Constanze Stelzenmüller writes commentary on global affairs for the Financial Times. An expert on German, European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy, she is currently the Fritz Stern Chair and a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution.

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    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      German politics
      Scholz is a wartime chancellor, whether he likes it or not

      The German leader and his new defence minister have a big decision to make on supplying tanks to Ukraine

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      The west’s axis of prudence risks a Kremlin victory by default in Ukraine

      Putin’s relentless missile strikes on infrastructure indicate that mere containment of Russia will not achieve a secure peace

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine crisis could transform the future of neutrality

      Switzerland is not the only European government being forced to re-examine the status quo

    • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Russia may prefer sabotage of critical infrastructure over nuclear weapons

      Attacks on gas pipelines, train networks and airport computer systems underline the risks spreading from war in Ukraine

    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      German politics
      Germany must shake off its habit of finding excuses for inaction

      If the government is serious about its leadership role in Europe, it should step up its military aid for Ukraine

    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
      German economy
      Germany is now the fulcrum for Vladimir Putin’s pressure

      Berlin is bracing for severe recession and economic turbulence as Russia cuts its gas supplies

    • Sunday, 17 July, 2022
      EU energy
      A German gas crisis will cause jitters across Europe

      As Russia seeks to make others pay the price for its war in Ukraine, an EU-wide energy security strategy is needed

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      German politics
      Merkel’s lack of regrets illustrates the fallacies of Germany’s Russia policy

      For far too long politicians, businesspeople and voters refused to face up to the ominous nature of Putin’s style of rule

    • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Germany has a special responsibility to stop Putin’s evil

      Hesitant military support for Ukraine is exposing weaknesses in the SPD-led coalition and government structures

    • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Western leaders must be honest about what it takes to stand up to Putin

      They should also assure the Russian people that their quarrel is not with them but with the man in the Kremlin

    • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
      German politics
      Scholz holds his ground in Putin’s den

      Germany’s chancellor and ruling Social Democrats still need to grasp the extent of Moscow’s challenge to European security

    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
      EU energy
      Energy trilemma causes a headache for Germany’s new leaders

      Ambitious climate transition plans cannot disguise coalition differences about the nation’s reliance on Russian gas

    • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
      Germany
      Germany holds the key to deterring Russian moves against Ukraine

      The Kremlin’s brinkmanship seeks to exploit mixed European perceptions of Moscow’s pressure

    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      German politics
      Nuclear weapons debate in Germany touches a raw Nato nerve

      Berlin’s allies are concerned that the incoming government may distance itself from the alliance’s deterrence strategy

    • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
      German politics
      The world won’t wait for Germany’s coalition negotiators

      A fraying international order requires Berlin to assume more responsibility for European security

    • Tuesday, 31 August, 2021
      Afghanistan
      The war in Afghanistan has shaped an entire generation in the west

      And the fate of the Afghan people will weigh heavily on our collective conscience

    • Wednesday, 4 August, 2021
      German politics
      ‘None of the above’ leads a pivotal German election race

      The chancellor candidates in next month’s parliamentary poll have escaped the hardships of previous leaders

    • Tuesday, 13 July, 2021
      German politics
      Sharper strategic thinking will help Germany mend fences with US

      The Biden administration wants Berlin to join it in tackling Chinese and Russian challenges to democracies

    • Monday, 31 May, 2021
      German election
      East German political winds ruffle feathers in Berlin

      Christian Democrats risk losing centrist votes in September’s Bundestag election if they move further right

    • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
      German election
      Hello, Berlin? Germany’s future raises foreign policy concerns for allies

      Most parties battling for power in the Bundestag elections have ideas that unsettle the neighbours

    • Tuesday, 23 March, 2021
      Geopolitics
      Nord Stream 2 impasse threatens transatlantic ties

      Berlin’s inflexibility risks alienating a US administration that wants to stand up to Russia

    • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
      Russian politics
      EU support for Russian democracy is inadequate

      Josep Borrell’s sally was only Europe’s latest ill-fated response to Kremlin repression; this must change

    • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
      German election
      Imagining Germany without Angela Merkel has got harder

      Instead of the rocklike stability of the past, its political parties are in even more flux than usual

    • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
      Nato
      The west must live up to its own principles on democracy

      Backsliding undercuts the cohesion of Nato at a time when conflicts around the world are heating up

    • Monday, 26 October, 2020
      German politics
      Germany needs to step up to Europe’s defence

      Whatever the US election outcome, the continent requires its own security anchor

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