Europa kann sich ohne Deutschland und Polen nicht verteidigen. Im @faznet.bsky.social-Gastbeitrag mit Monika Sus beschreibt @tobiasbunde.bsky.social drei konkrete Maßnahmen, wie die Bundesregierung die Abwärtsspirale der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen beenden könnte. www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

We're hiring at the @munsecconf.bsky.social (Munich Security Conference)! We're looking for: Senior Researcher (focus: survey research & data analysis) Senior Researcher (open profile – we’re looking for complementarity, not duplication) Editor (native-level English; excellent German is a plus)

Indeed hard to believe. If someone had told me some months ago that a key official in the Trump administration would refer to Germany as a positive example when criticizing other Allies' lack of defense spending... Pete Hegseth at the Shangri-La Dialogue. www.defense.gov/News/Speeche...

DWD-Fakten zur aktuellen #Trockenheit in #Deutschland: Noch nie seit Beginn der Auswertung 1931 war es in Deutschland im Zeitraum von Anfang Februar bis Mitte April so trocken wie 2025. Mehr Details auch zu #Europa in der heutigen Pressemitteilung unter www.dwd.de/presse

🟢 New job alert! 📣 🌐 Head of Programme – 𝗘𝗨 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 at @boelleu.bsky.social in #Brussels 🚀 Full-time, to start 𝗔𝗦𝗔𝗣 💼 All info 👉 eu.boell.org/en/vacancy-h... ⏳ Deadline for applications 𝗦𝘂𝗻 𝟰 𝗠𝗮𝘆, 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗧 #Vacancy #Jobs @boell.de @verabenatar.bsky.social @philks.bsky.social

Please consider joining the new @isanet.bsky.social Research and Policy Section (RAPS)!

Macht Deutschland sich selbst klein? Während durchschnittlich 54 % im Ausland es als Großmacht sehen, sind es im Inland nur 22 %. In der @szde.bsky.social geben @tobiasbunde.bsky.social und Sophie Eisentraut Einblicke in das deutsche Selbstbild: www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/deut...

Recent events have underlined that we need to have more serious debates on #nuclear #deterrence in Europe. We're hosting our traditional @hertiesecurity.bsky.social Nuclear Security Workshop in Berlin in July. Deadline for applications: March 14. www.hertie-school.org/en/news/allc...

As @andreasrinke.bsky.social reports, CDU/CSU and SPD are discussing two new special funds for defense and infrastructure, respectively. I doubt these two funds, if they materialize, will reach the 400 and 400-500 bn suggested here, but let's hope for a strong signal. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

"America's Stab in the Back" - @projectsyndicate.bsky.social has published a "Big Picture" collection of articles, including pieces by @plegrain.bsky.social, @dschwarzer.bsky.social, @sierakowski.bsky.social and me. www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/amer...

Ist wirklich eine Frage auch an Medien. Wie im Himmel ist es bei dieser Gefahrenlage auch für deutsche Bürgerinnen und Bürger möglich, dass die erste ernsthafte Debatte zu Sicherheitspolitik mit Parteispitzen 3 Sunden nach der Wahl stattfindet.

Was für ein Wahnsinn ist das eigentlich, dass jetzt in der #Elefantenrunde zum ersten Mal außenpolitisch wirklich Tacheles zwischen den verschiedenen Parteien/Kandidat*innen gesprochen wird? #BTW2025

J.D. Vance is right: the greatest threat to the West is indeed coming from within. New piece for Project Syndicate. #MSC2025 #Westlessness www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...

Westlessness Reloaded? Great readout of #MSC2025 by @tobiasbunde.bsky.social and Sophie Eisentraut @munsecconf.bsky.social 👇 securityconference.org/publikatione...

Westlessness

#Deutschland, eine Großmacht? Ernsthaft? Mehrheiten in fast allen G7-Staaten, Brasilien, Indien, China und Südafrika sind der Meinung, dass 🇩🇪 eine Großmacht ist - in Deutschland sind es 22 Prozent. @szde.bsky.social-Gastbeitrag mit Sophie Eisentraut #MSC2025 www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/deut...

At the Federal Press Conference, we launched the Munich Security Report 2025. @tobiasbunde.bsky.social and Sophie Eisentraut presented the common thread for discussions at #MSC2025: Multipolarization. ➡️ Read the full #MSCreport: securityconference.org/msr

📝 Don't miss this BJPIR article out now! 'Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis: Germany and the travails of adaptation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine' by Tobias Bunde 🔓 Available in #OpenAccess here: https://buff.ly/4anfw1I @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

At EWIS 2025 in Krakow (July 2–4, 2025), @susmonika.bsky.social and I will host a workshop on "Reconfiguring Collective Deterrence and Defense on NATO’s Northern and Eastern Flanks." You can submit your abstract until February 11, 2025: eisa-net.org/ewis-2025 More info: eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...

Is our global order witnessing a 'Nuclear Zeitenwende'? 🌍☢️ 📚 @tobiasbunde.bsky.social & @profonderco.bsky.social co-edited a Nonproliferation Review issue on changes in domestic nuclear policies following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 🔗 Read more: www.hertie-school.org/en/news/allc...

Together with Andrew Palmer, I will be hosting a new Standing Section at the upcoming @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC in Bologna: Narrating World Polics. If you are working on narratives in IR (broadly understood) we are much looking forward to your submissions! eisa-net.org/pec-2025/

My article on #Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis has been published by the British Journal of Politics and International Relations: doi.org/10.1177/1369... (open access). It reflects my assessment of continuity and change of 🇩🇪 German foreign policy (as of early/mid-2024).

What are the consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine for nuclear policies around the world? @profonderco.bsky.social and I co-edited a special issue of the Nonproliferation Review on the "Nuclear Zeitenwende," which just came out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnpr20/3...

Right on time for Christmas, our SI of the Nonproliferation Review, coedited with @tobiasbunde.bsky.social is now out! Read about how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed (or not) how states around the world think about nukes www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnpr20/3...

We have a couple of open #PhD positions at the @hertieschool.bsky.social, including one in the field of international security (@hertiesecurity.bsky.social): www.hertie-school.org/en/phd/apply... Deadline: January 31, 2025

If you read the actual story beneath this headline, it… actually sounds even more like today

Have you recently defended your PhD dissertation somehow related to transatlantic relations - or know someone who has? Have a look at the call for nominations for the John McDissertation Award (comes with an invitation to the MSC and up to 10k euros). securityconference.org/en/mccain-aw...

There's still some life in the Weimar Triangle - at least on the foreign minister level. Good. More of this badly needed! "We are convinced that this is the moment when we must deliver and ensure that our citizens live in peace, freedom and prosperity." www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/...

"The issue at the heart of this is whether [...] we have it in us to keep warmongers like Putin in check." Olaf Scholz, February 27, 2022 #Zeitenwende www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news...

What a chart. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Interested in joining a workshop on collective defense and deterrence on NATO's Northern and Eastern flanks? Monika Sus and I are considering submitting a proposal for the EISA's European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) in Krakow (July 2-4, 2025). eisa-net.org/call-for-wor...

Was an Marko Martins Auftritt beim Bundespräsidenten wirklich bemerkenswert war - meine Analyse aus der ZEIT von morgen

New Berlin Pulse data just published by @koerberip.bsky.social. Impressive numbers: 50 percent of Germans think spending 3-3.5 percent of GDP on defense is "just right," 15 percent think it's too low. Full text (PDF): koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/...

Jens Stoltenberg's FT op-ed is now also available on the @munsecconf.bsky.social website: securityconference.org/en/news/full...

The basic flaw in many analyses of Germany is not to realise, even to this day, in what an awful state Germany was at the end of 2021.

Tomorrow, my MSC colleague Nicole Koenig and @camillegrand.bsky.social will discuss the new Kiel Institute report "Fit for war in decades: Europe’s and Germany’s slow rearmament vis-à-vis Russia," written by @guntramwolff.bsky.social and co-authors. More info: www.ifw-kiel.de/de/institut/...

Percent of Russians voting for Putin: 2012: 63.6% 2018: 76.7% 2024: 87.28% 2030: 95.78% 2036: 104.28%

Streets of Berlin #SlavaUkraini #Navalny #NoonAgainstPutin

🌐 Engaging dialogue at @hertieschool.bsky.social yesterday about impressions from this year's @munsecconf.bsky.social with former Vice Minister Fu Ying and @tobiasbunde.bsky.social. The @hertiesecurity.bsky.social team would like to express our gratitude to Minister Fu Ying for her involvement.

"Please don't ask Ukraine when the war will end. Ask yourself why Putin can still continue it!" President Zelenskyy at the Munich Security Conference

Since the entire national media is doing "Reverse Emails" all over again, here's a brief sample of the things that should be front page, above-the-fold, five-alarm fire news:

The upcoming @munsecconf.bsky.social will be its 60th edition. But we will also publish the 10th Munich Security Report. Hard to believe, time flies... The report will be out on Monday, February 12, 10am: securityconference.org/en/publicati...

Please join us for a @hertiesecurity.bsky.social event with @constelz.bsky.social & TGA on "#Europe at a turning point: Reckoning with a new era of geopolitical (in)securities", moderated by @argohdes.bsky.social. February 14, 6pm, @hertieschool.bsky.social. www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

📣 If you're interested in a master's degree in international security look no further than @hertieschool.bsky.social in Berlin! 📆 Find out more in the video below and apply by our priority deadline on February 1! 🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/study/pro... www.youtube.com/watch?v=taUX...

"We all know who Donald Trump is. The question we have to answer is: Who are we? That’s what’s at stake. (Applause.)  Who are we?" Yes, indeed. It's the question everyone should ask themselves - whether in the US and Europe. We know who the enemies of democracy are. It's all out in the open.

"Wie aber können die westlichen Demokratien dieser Logik der Destruktion sinnvoll begegnen? Die größte Gefahr für die westlich-liberalen Staaten besteht darin, die Destruktivität ihrer autoritären Feinde mit eigener Destruktivität zu beantworten." Schön gesagt, A. von Lucke @blaetter.bsky.social!

Very happy we can continue - and even strengthen - our work on nuclear security at the @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social thanks to a generous endowment from the Stanton Foundation! Looking forward to working on this project with my Hertie and @munsecconf.bsky.social colleagues!

Für den Podcast des Forums Neue Sicherheitspolitik der @boell.de habe ich mit Giorgio Franceschini und Mandy Schielke Ende November über die europäische Sicherheitsordnung gesprochen. www.boell.de/de/media/pod...