Areas of Expertise

  • German foreign and security policy
  • Global order and geopolitics
  • Transatlantic relations
  • Ukraine’s recovery

Short Bio

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff has been the director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) since August 2024. Previously, he served as the Guido Goldman Distinguished Scholar for Geostrategy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). He led GMF’s Berlin office and was a member of the organization's executive team for a decade.

From 2013 to 2017, Kleine-Brockhoff served as an advisor to German Federal President Joachim Gauck, leading the unit for policy planning and speechwriting in the president’s office. Before transitioning to policy advising and think tank leadership, Kleine-Brockhoff had a career in journalism. He worked for Die Zeit, where he served as Washington bureau chief.

Kleine-Brockhoff is a seasoned expert on transatlantic foreign and security policy and is deeply engaged in issues concerning the global order. He is the author of The World Needs the West – A Fresh Start for a Liberal Order (2019) and co-author of the GMF studies Designing Ukraine’s Recovery in the Spirit of the Marshall Plan (2022) and Toward a Marshall Plan for Ukraine (2023).
 

Languages

German, English

 

[Last updated: August 2024]

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff

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Publications

US President Joe Biden and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi stand together onstage looking out towards the Washington Monument during the playing of their national anthems during an official State Arrival Ceremony at the start of Modi's visit to the White House in Washington, DC, June 22, 2023.

Universalism and Its Discontents

The West should give up its messianism, but not its norms and principles when interacting with the Global South.

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
IPQ
Bild: Grafische Illustration eines Schwertes dessen Spitze in einen Stift übergeht

Tauglicher Universalismus

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Im Umgang mit dem Globalen Süden solle der Westen sich seiner Prinzipien entledigen? Wider die Kernschmelze – eine Entgegnung. Eine Antwort auf Gyula Csurgai.

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
IP
Kommentar
Demonstrators hold a Ukrainian flag during an anti-war rally in front the Parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, March 7, 2022.

Georgia’s Fate Will Be Decided in Kyiv

Do Europe and the United States want to abandon the small country in the Caucasus to Putin’s nihilism?

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
Anna Kuchenbecker
IPQ
Bild: Joe Biden hält eine Rede vor dem Weißen Haus

Biden und die Folgen

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Der US-Präsident will weit mehr als nur den alten Westen rekonstruieren. Afghanistan allerdings bedeutet einen schweren Rückschlag für seine Pläne. Kann er trotzdem und auch angesichts der enormen gesellschaftlichen Spaltung erfolgreich sein?

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
IP

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