New Challenges for the German Security Policy - IFSH

Foreword
From April 23 rd to April 28 th 2006 the seminar group consisting of numerous students of the IFSH's
Master of Peace and Security post-graduate program as well as regular students of Hamburg
University participated in an international security policy program supported and organized by the
German Bundeswehr. The group visited several national and international security-related
institutions in Germany, Belgium an the Netherlands, such as the German Ministry of Defence in
Bonn, the German Bundeswehr Centre for
Verification at Geilenkirchen, NATO's
political Headquarters, and several EU
institutions in Brussels, NATO Air Base
Geilenkirchen, and NATO's Joint Force
Command Headquarters in Brunssum,
Netherlands.
Apart from that, cultural and social events
were also part of the program organized by
Patricia Schneider (IFSH), Captain
(German Army) Patrick Söchting
(Hamburg), Captain (German Army)
Frank Hauenstein and Friedhelm Dauns of
the German Office of the Armed Forces
(Streitkräfteamt St. Augustin).
Major topics of the seminar were the challenges that German and
international security policy are facing at the beginning of the 21 st
century, for example the transformation of the Bundeswehr, the European
Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) as well as the present and future of
transatlantic security relations.
The participants all took up the chance to engage critically in the
discussions at the end of every presentation and thus contributed to a successful and enjoyable week
in the students' academic
curriculum.
The M.P.S. students wish to
thank Frank Hauenstein,
Patricia Schneider, Friedhelm
Dauns and Patrick
Söchting for the professional
administration and planning
of the course.
Christian Hillmer
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