The New Germany, Season 2 - Episode 4: Germany’s Grand Strategy

Geschichte ist Gegenwart! Der History & Politics Podcast der Körber-Stiftung

  • History
  • 48 min.
  • 51. episode

Season 2, episode 4 of our seven-part series The New Germany with historian Katja Hoyer and journalist Oliver Moody is about Germany’s Grand Strategy: Why has Germany not developed a geostrategy to date? When and why have other states done so? And what does this mean for Germany's future foreign and security policy in changing times? Does the new National Security Strategy do justice to the need to catch up?

Guest: ** Brendan Simms**, Professor of the History of International Relations, University of Cambridge

One year of Zeitenwende – what has or has not changed in Germany? How is Germany perceived on the international stage? And why is everyone talking about the need for a grand strategy? The popular special series is back with season 2. What events have shaped Germany during this watershed year, where is it headed, and how does a look at history help us understand these changes?

As hosts, historian Katja Hoyer and journalist Oliver Moody set out to find some answers. Together with their expert guests, they will be looking into Germany's past and present to see what the future may hold for Europe's largest democracy.

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“So, yes, I think Germany’s strategic thinking, its strategic capacity, even much of its military capacity, if you think particularly of the decline of its armored formations over the past 15 years, I think all of that rusted post-1989/ 1990.”

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