International security and defence
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Europe, Don’t Be a Scaredy-Cat!
Get onto your feet – now! While the tectonic plates below our feet keep shifting, and the global order keeps eroding, Europeans are still punching below their weight. The recent concerted push-back against Trump’s coercive plans for a US-annexation of Greenland illustrate how much Europe can gain from standing up to a bully. Here is
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Thinking beyond old silos!
Europeans and Canada need to be bolder and braver in charting out options for their future security. Feeling like Cassandra can be unsettling. In early 2025 I wrote the below as part of a broader policy paper on the future of NATO. With Trump now threatening to annex Greenland, thereby putting NATO’s future in further
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Ukraine freezing, Trump raging, Europe reacting
My latest for TVP World, on Ukraine and Trump/Greenland: 1) There is, as there has always been, a real danger of Trump ending US support for Ukraine, even if the Europeans are paying for it. Just to blackmail Zelensky into accepting a bad peace deal, or now to coerce Europe on his latest fantasy, annexing
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The Cost of Failure
A Russian victory in Ukraine would reshape Europe In these days of hectic diplomacy around a ‘peace deal’ in Ukraine, it’s easy to lose sight of the long term and the big picture. There is a real possibility of a botched deal that leaves Ukraine weakened, Vladimir Putin triumphant, Europe in disarray and America withdrawn.
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„Welt in Unordnung -Gerechter Friede im Blick“
Die Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland stellt sich mit ihrer neuen Friedensdenkschrift den geopolitischen Realitäten unserer Zeit. Im Fadenkreuz der Schurken in Moskau, Peking und ja, auch Washington ist der Weg zu einem gerechten Frieden insbesondere in der Ukraine und in Europa steiniger denn je. In einer Welt in Unordnung mit zunehmender Gewalt und Bedrohungen unserer
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Germany’s new Ukraine doctrine: more money, harder questions
My latest interview for TVP World, 14 Nov 2025 – Germany under Chancellor Friedrich Merz is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to helping Ukraine defending itself: On top of the planned 8,5 bn Euros, in 2026 Germany has pledged 3 bn additionally.– The EU will use the frozen Russian assets
Gerlinde Niehus
The impact of the U.S. election on NATO and CEE security
TVP World
Gerlinde Niehus
Global security becoming increasingly precarious
TVP World
Gerlinde Niehus
Interview mit Gerlinde Niehus, Sicherheitsexpertin der Nato
Aachener Zeitung
Gerlinde Niehus
Die Wiederentdeckung der Führung
Internationale Politik
Gerlinde Niehus
Die Wiederentdeckung der Führung
Internationale Politik
Roland Freudenstein
Debate (in English) in Nowa Konfederacja on the ‘Remilitarization of Germany’ on 11 November 2023
Nowa Konfederacja