Areas of Expertise

  • German and US foreign and security policy
  • European and transatlantic security policy
  • Security organizations
  • Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and arms control

Languages

German, English, French

As head of DGAP Study Groups, Henning Riecke is responsible for the Study Groups on “Strategic Issues” and “European Policy”; he shares responsibility for “Future Global Issues.” Riecke’s research focuses on “International Order and Democracy.” He served as head of DGAP’s USA/Transatlantic Relations Program from 2009 to 2019.

Prior to joining DGAP in 2000, Riecke was a Thyssen Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, where he worked on a project on US small arms and light weapons policy. Between 1994 and 1999, he held several positions at the Center for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1995, he spent five months as a visiting fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Riecke earned his PhD in political science at the Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on the Clinton administration’s nuclear non-proliferation policy. He studied political science, history, national economy, and international relations in Frankfurt/Main and Berlin.

Dr. Henning Riecke

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Publications

Der Brexit und das EU-Machtgefüge

Wie wirkt sich das britische Votum auf die EU und ihr Gewicht in der Welt aus?

Author/s
Dr. Claire Demesmay
Dr. Stefan Meister
Dr. Jana Puglierin
et al.

After Paris

What are the Political Consequences of the Attacks within Europe and beyond?

Author/s
Dr. Claire Demesmay
Sarah Hartmann
Dr. Stefan Meister
et al.

Vigilant Partnership

The NSA scandal gives new impetus to transatlantic relations

Author/s
Dr. Henning Riecke
Commentary

Transatlantic Renaissance?

German-American Relations in Obama’s Second Term

Author/s
Dr. Stormy-Annika Mildner
Dr. Henning Riecke
Dr. Claudia Schmucker
External Publications

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