Much looking forward to giving a talk at UC Berkeley next week (Wed 15 Oct, noon). Please join if you are in the area!

📣 Online launch event: Action Potentials - Neurotechnology, Brain-Computer Interfaces and Implications for Germany’s and Europe’s Foreign & Security Policy 📆 13 October 2025 ⌚ 16:00-17:00 CET 💻 Online via Zoom

AGI is pleased to welcome @jhensing.bsky.social as a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow in Fall 2025. At AGI, he will research U.S. techno-economic statecraft to understand how the positions and expertise of industry stakeholders feature in the U.S. policy process. americangerman.institute/2025/09/jako...

New report out: 🧠 Neurotech, Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Implications for Germany's and Europe's Foreign & Security Policy. Result of surely one of the most fascinating projects I have worked on in the last years, which really shifted some of my assumptions of what the future could look like.

🧬NEW POLICY BRIEF: GPPi's Florian Klumpp, Aaranya Alexander & @jhensing.bsky.social examine the implications of rapid advancements in biotechnology — especially synthetic biology — for Germany’s & Europe’s foreign & security policy & offer recommendations for policymakers: gppi.net/2025/07/18/b...

🔔 Internship Alert! GPPi is seeking an intern for our project on the strategic and security implications of critical and emerging technologies. ‼️ Apply now: gppi.net/about/jobs-i... @jhensing.bsky.social @tbenner.bsky.social

References to quantum technology's security relevance are common, incl. in the EU’s new "Quantum Europe Strategy." What security issues does this technology raise? How will quantum sensing, communication & computing be used in the future? Find out: gppi.net/2025/07/07/q... @jhensing.bsky.social

⏳Last chance to register! Join @jankaoertel.bsky.social, @ @Geoffrey Gertz & @jhensing.bsky.social for our online event: “Economic Security and Critical Tech in Trump 2.0” 🗓 May 7 | 🕒 15:00 CEST | 📍 Zoom 🔗 Full details + signup below 👇 #DFS2025 gppi.net/2025/04/07/d...

New from @tbenner.bsky.social and @jhensing.bsky.social: Friedrich Merz wants to strengthen German industry, but his thinking is stuck in the past. His government needs to make Germany and the EU thrive in the age of systemic competition. ip-quarterly.com/en/germany-n...

SAVE THE DATE for a discussion on "Economic Security & Critical Tech in Trump 2.0" with @jankaoertel.bsky.social (@ecfr.eu), Geoffrey Gertz (CNAS) & @jhensing.bsky.social (GPPi) as part of @baks.bund.de's #DFS2025: 🗓 May 7 | 🕒 15:00–16:00 CEST | 📍 Online 🔗 Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Neurotech is advancing fast — with major implications for foreign, security, and economic policy. @jhensing.bsky.social & Andreas Faika explore why Germany & Europe need policies that consider the military and data, cyber & economic security aspects of this frontier tech. 🧠 gppi.net/2025/03/27/n...

Warum das alte Denken in Wettbewerbsfähigkeit nicht mehr ausreicht und welche Investitionen in Systemwettbewerbsfähigkeit wir vornehmen sollten: dazu mehr im Essay von @jhensing.bsky.social & mir in der aktuellen Wirtschaftswoche. gppi.net/2025/03/14/e... .

Very much enjoyed today's workshop on neurotechnology from a foreign and security policy perspective organized by @jhensing.bsky.social, featuring a presentation of this report by the Centre for Future Generations on the governance challenges of neurotechnology. Worth a read. cfg.eu/towards-incl...

Wettbewerbsfähigkeit reicht nicht mehr - Deutschland und Europa müssen "systemwettbewerbsfähig" werden. Neues Essay von @tbenner.bsky.social und mir in der @wirtschaftswoche.bsky.social. emagazin.wiwo.de/epaper/wirts...

Truth well told, by Gideon Rose. @americanacademy.bsky.social

🇩🇪🗳️ Germany heads to the polls on Feb 23 so GPPi experts have curated a list of pre-election must-reads (& watches, listens) 🔗 gppi.net/2025/02/17/g... With recommendations from: @tbenner.bsky.social, @bressansar.bsky.social, Gelila Enbaye, @jhensing.bsky.social, Karla Kröner & @jlehmann.bsky.social

🔥 Ideas of Energy Ep.3: Helen Thompson's captivating talk on “Energy and War & Peace” unpacked the profound connections between energy & geopolitics throughout history. Next👉 gppi.net/2024/10/11/e... @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social @andreabinder.bsky.social @jhensing.bsky.social @maxkrahe.bsky.social

Very happy to briefly have Tim @ruehlig.bsky.social back in Berlin for a discussion on what’s next for the European and German agenda on China and critical technologies, given the new Commission and Trump’s impending inauguration.

A few quotes from me in this Newsweek piece on the updated Pentagon list of "Chinese military companies" operating in the US. 1/3 www.newsweek.com/pentagon-rev...

"Trump has a crucial choice to make. If he decides to impose across-the-board tariffs on Europe, he will pull the rug out from under the feet of von der Leyen and empower the pro-Beijing voices across Europe." New piece by @tbenner.bsky.social, Florian Klumpp and myself in @foreignpolicy.com

GPPi’s @jhensing.bsky.social & Florian Klumpp examined the Biden administration’s track record on Critical and Emerging Technologies (CET). Did the measures achieve the objectives to extend the US tech edge over China & boost US national security through tech policy? ➡️ gppi.net/2024/12/18/t...

"Biotechnology, Security, and Sovereignty: Strategic Priorities for Germany and the EU" - that was the last discussion round we hosted in 2024 in our @gppi.bsky.social project on Critical & Emerging Technologies.

Hello Bluesky! We're the Centre for Future Generations, an independent think-and-do tank based in Brussels, created to help decision-makers anticipate and govern rapid technological change. More to come soon! Find us on cfg.eu.

To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you. Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.

Much looking forward to the second event in our series "Ideas of Energy", this time with Andreas C. Goldthau on "Energy and Justice". Join us at @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social in Berlin on Thursday 5 December, 19:30 (in-person only). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A conversation between a think tanker dabbling in the global politics of bio- and neurotech and an actual neurosurgeon - what could possibly go wrong? Join Dr. Ran Xu and myself at the AsiaBerlin Summit to find out. 📍Rotes Rathaus, Tuesday 26 Nov, 10:20 CET agenda.asia.berlin

It's been an exciting week - not just due to the uptick in activity over here, but also because I had a chance to work on our new @gppi.bsky.social project looking at neurotechnology from a foreign and security policy perspective. 🧠 gppi.net/2024/11/18/n...

Season 2, Episode 2: Ideas of ... Energy with the inimitable energy-wonk Andreas Goldthau. Come join us to discuss & think through the relationship between #Energy & #Justice! 🗓 5.12.24, 19.30 🗺 @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social, Berlin 📝: forms.gle/MyseGHdnXjHa...

It's time for DE & EU to focus their “de-risking” debate on technologies key for modernizing China’s military, GPPi’s @tbenner.bsky.social & @jhensing.bsky.social argue in a new piece. Read it in EN (bit.ly/3JHBM9Z) or DE (bit.ly/4aZ2yXp). And sign up for our #DFS2024 panel: bit.ly/getting-de-r....

It has a clever title, but GPPi’s new guidebook by Gelila Enbaye, @jhensing.bsky.social & @rotmann.net is all about serious policy games. See how analytical simulation games can help policymakers anticipate the impact of potential external interventions in a given conflict: gppi.net/2024/04/22/g...

Budget cuts have hit the BMZ hard, stoking debates over Berlin's development policy goals: reduce hunger and poverty, or instead prioritize “national interests”? For IPG-Journal, GPPi’s @jhensing.bsky.social argues (in DE) that this may be a false dichotomy: www.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/aus...

Pauschale Rufe nach einer Konzentration der Entwicklungspolitik auf "nationale Interessen" führen so nicht weiter. Wie kann 🇩🇪 seine vielfältigen Interessen besser priorisieren und verfolgen, und warum wäre das auch für traditionelle entwicklungspolitische Ziele gut? Mein Artikel im IPG-Journal ⬇️

Quite the panel at FES yesterday on Sahel policy. Credit to ministers Schulze and Pistorius for making time to stay for the entire discussion. Overall, strong agreement on staying engaged, but also a lot of "we need to square the circle and do it very carefully"...

The household analogy is the worst zombie idea in economic policy debate on both sides of the Atlantic

[Biden admin officials say] that African countries need not face a binary choice between the United States and Beijing or Moscow. "They want to have a diversity of partners, right? They don’t want to be entirely dependent on China. And they honestly don’t want to be entirely dependent on us."

Why is Germany's business-led approach to de-risking falling short? GPPi's @jhensing.bsky.social explains: 1) Int’l firms & gov'ts don’t always share priorities; 2) Some sectors must be diversified at the systemic level. But engaging with companies could make a genuine difference. 👉 bit.ly/3Od7mPJ

Private sector engagement is critical to Europe's de-risking efforts, but it will take concerted public-private initiatives rather than mainly corporate risk management to succeed. Thanks to @bertelsmannst.bsky.social for hosting my piece on Global & European Dynamics.

Important piece from Elias Sagmeister @gppi.bsky.social: "Donors won’t fully support a system that keeps insisting it's on its last legs. [...] Instead, humanitarian leaders should point to past successes while making demonstrable progress on the reforms they have rightly committed to."

Wir müssen zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure in Konfliktgebieten besser verstehen, um sie strategischer zu unterstützen. Danke für die lebhafte Diskussion heute Abend im Bundestag, Jamila Schäfer, Anka Feldhusen @diplo.de & @gppi.bsky.social -Kollegen @melissali.bsky.social & @jhensing.bsky.social !

Preventing wars is the EU's main foreign policy goal. How can algorithms and predictive models help?  For EUISS, @bressansar.bsky.social argues that expanding the EU's early warning toolbox is key in light of new conflict risks – as is strengthening early action. 👇 bit.ly/48zkFCd

Angola's foreign policy has been resolutely "à la carte" since long before Lourenço. This is an interesting move for sure amid a context of rapprochement with the US, but not some big signal of strategic realignment.

A study from @kielinstitute.bsky.social has modeled the costs of Germany abruptly decoupling from China if, say, Beijing annexed Taiwan. It also claims these costs would be “manageable.” But as our fellow Ansgar Baums explains, this ignores the real extent of such a scenario. bit.ly/3vahdiJ

General elections in the DR Congo are scheduled for 20 December. This week's Continent headline may not prove all that hyperbolic about the importance of how this country is governed - not just for its almost 100 million citizens, but also for the wider world. www.thecontinent.org

"Mr. Lourenço, who previously visited the United States as Angola’s minister of defense, told reporters after the meeting that it 'was better than I expected.'"

Moritz Schularick's view on de-risking set out at the #SchmidtLecture hinges strongly on an - as of yet unpublished - @kielinstitute.bsky.social study that puts the cost to 🇩🇪 of a sudden, hard decoupling from 🇨🇳 in the event of a crisis at 4-5% of GDP. That is still a large number, but 1/

NEW LAUNCH: War is political & all politics is local. To intervene, we need to know the politics: who calls the shots in the village, why do people do what they do? Yet a lot of violence is in remote, inaccessible areas where it it is difficult to track anything. What to do?🧵 1/8

Thought-provoking piece by Jonny Steinberg. "At the 10th anniversary of Mandela’s death on December 5 2013, it is difficult to square the complex, opaque man he was with the one-dimensional figure that his country remembers — and with whom it has grown increasingly angry."

Schon bemerkenswert, wie eindeutig der internationale Blick auf die aktuelle Debatte um Schuldenregeln in Deutschland ausfällt.

Interesting proposition in Gita Gopinath's @kielinstitute.bsky.social Geoeconomics conference keynote: 🇪🇺 is uniquely exposed to geoeconomic fragmentation, but also uniquely placed to build resilience thanks to strengths in both manufacturing and innovation. 1/