S&F Sicherheit und Frieden

The European peace and security order is facing an existential crisis. Its value anchors - democracy, collaboration and integration - are at stake and may seriously weaken due to increasing tendencies of fragmentation and re-nationalization. Such...

Under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, France has set itself the goal of strengthening its international presence, being more proactive and defining the European reform agenda. However, the French room for manoeuver is limited. The increasingly...

Egon Bahr’s 1963 speech outlined ways to achieve rapprochement with the Soviet Union through mutual recognition. The article asks in how far this approach can be useful for the current crisis in Russian-Western relations. It demonstrates that the...