DGAP’s program in security and defense takes a comprehensive approach to security research. Its themes range from German and European defense and security policy and the development of the arms industry to civilian crisis management and the fight against terrorism.
In order to gain a deeper understanding of German foreign policy and, from it, to derive targeted recommendations for action, the program examines security policy from different perspectives – in terms of both content and methodology. Through its work, it offers interdisciplinary expertise on the constantly changing facets of policy in national and international security and defense.
Key topics:
- Security
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- The security and defense policies of Germany, France, other European countries, and the US
- The EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP)
- Civilian crisis management and peacekeeping missions
- Prevention of (violent) Islamic extremism and radicalization
- International cooperation in the fight against terrorism and its prevention
- Defense
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- NATO
- European cooperation on defense
- EU-NATO cooperation
- Franco-German cooperation on defense
- Technological risk assessment
- Armaments
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- German and European arms policy and industry
- Arms exports
- Armed forces and military capabilities
- Deterrence, arms control, and non-proliferation
- Technological innovation
- Peace
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- Conflict prevention
- Peace operations, in particular of the United Nations and European Union
- Mediation, dialogue, and diplomacy
- Stabilization and peacebuilding
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Projects
Events
Past events
18:30 - 20:00 | 20 Jun 2022
Gespräch mit Jens Plötner - "Zeitenwende in the Making"
08:30 - 09:30 | 17 Jun 2022
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Week Seventeen
The Military Situation, Putin’s War Aims, and Conditions in Russian-occupied Ukraine
08:30 - 09:30 | 09 Jun 2022
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Week Sixteen
The Military Situation, Economic Consequences, and the Challenge of Post-war Reconstruction
13:30 - 16:00 | 04 Apr 2022
(Re-)Thinking Stability Dialogue
Improving Stabilisation Operations: Putting Lessons into Practice
09:00 - 14:30 | 04 Nov 2021
International Trends in the Tertiary Prevention of Islamist Extremism
InFoEx Insights
17:00 - 18:30 | 24 Aug 2021
DGAP Crisis Prevention Web Talk
Konfliktbearbeitung und Stabilisierung in der deutschen Außenpolitik
Publications
Einnahme von Soledar bei Bachmut
Russlands erster Erfolg seit Langem
South Korea: Defense Reform and Force Enhancement Plans
Country Report From the Project “Risk Reduction and Arms Control in the Asia-Pacific Region”
A Strategic Feasibility Test
Is the Old European Dream of Peaceful Multilateralism Dead?
The Kremlin’s Troll Network Never Sleeps
Inauthentic Pro-Kremlin Online Behaviour on Facebook in Germany, Italy, Romania and Hungary
Russia's Withdrawal from Kherson
Russian Troops Blew Up Bridges, Preparing for Retreat