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Review 2014 – A Fresh Look at German Foreign Policy

“Crisis, Order, Europe” – these keywords highlight the main challenges for German Foreign Policy in the medium term. The project “Review 2014 – A Fresh Look at German Foreign Policy”, initiated by Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has open up a broad public debate about the aims, interests and perspectives of German foreign policy. This report details the discussions of the past year, the expectations with regard to Germany’s global role raised within Germany and abroad as well as the foreign policy challenges in the future.

“Crisis, Order, Europe” – these keywords highlight the main challenges for German Foreign Policy in the medium term. The project “Review 2014 – A Fresh Look at German Foreign Policy”, initiated by Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has open up a broad public debate about the aims, interests and perspectives of German foreign policy. This report details the discussions of the past year, the expectations with regard to Germany’s global role raised within Germany and abroad as well as the foreign policy challenges in the future.

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THE “REVIEW <strong>2014</strong>” EVENTS<br />

(A SELECTION)<br />

“KÖRBERFORUM: A FRESH LOOK AT FOREIGN POLICY”<br />

Hamburg · 3 September <strong>2014</strong><br />

<strong>Foreign</strong> Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier<br />

Moder<strong>at</strong>ion: Thomas Paulsen (Member of the Board of the Körber Found<strong>at</strong>ion)<br />

“CRISES AND CONFLICTS IN OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD <strong>–</strong><br />

WHAT RESPONSIBILITY SHOULD GERMANY TAKE ON?”<br />

Bad Hersfeld · 16 September <strong>2014</strong><br />

Minister of St<strong>at</strong>e Michael Roth in a convers<strong>at</strong>ion with sixth-form school pupils from the<br />

Modellschule Obersberg<br />

Moder<strong>at</strong>ion: Kai Struthoff (Managing Editor, Hersfelder Zeitung)<br />

“BAD TIMES FOR ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT?”<br />

Bonn · 4 September <strong>2014</strong><br />

Ambassador Christoph Eichhorn (Deputy Federal Government<br />

Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control), Prof. Conrad<br />

Schetter (Director for Research, BICC)<br />

Moder<strong>at</strong>ion: Alexander Drechsel (Deutsche Welle) in cooper<strong>at</strong>ion with<br />

the Bonn Intern<strong>at</strong>ional Centre for Conversion (BICC)<br />

“PEACE <strong>–</strong> BUT HOW?”<br />

Heidelberg · 25 July <strong>2014</strong><br />

Rüdiger König (crisis response commissioner and former Ambassador to Afghanistan), Philipp Rotmann<br />

(Associ<strong>at</strong>e Director of the Global Public <strong>Policy</strong> Institute Berlin), Franziska Brantner (Member of the <strong>German</strong><br />

Bundestag, Chair of the Subcommittee on Civilian Crisis Prevention)<br />

Moder<strong>at</strong>ion: Sören Sgries (Rhein Neckar Zeitung)<br />

“RESPONSIBILITY AND OPENNESS <strong>–</strong> WHERE DOES OUR ‘CULTURE<br />

OF WELCOME’ BEGIN?“<br />

Stuttgart · 20 October <strong>2014</strong><br />

<strong>Foreign</strong> Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Bilkay Öney (St<strong>at</strong>e Commissioner for Integr<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />

Baden- Württemberg), Ergun Lümali (Deputy Chairman of the General Works Council, Daimler AG),<br />

Johannes Kärcher (Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Alfred Kärcher) and Njeri Kinyanjui (owner<br />

of Hottpott Sauces in Reutlingen)<br />

Moder<strong>at</strong>ion: Anna Koktsidou (SWR Intern<strong>at</strong>ional) together with the Institute for <strong>Foreign</strong> Cultural Rel<strong>at</strong>ions (ifa)<br />

“UKRAINE, RUSSIA AND THE WEST <strong>–</strong> BETWEEN WAR, PEACE AND SANCTIONS”<br />

Freiburg · 18 November <strong>2014</strong><br />

Gernot Erler (Member of the <strong>German</strong> Bundestag, Federal Government Coordin<strong>at</strong>or for Intersocietal Cooper<strong>at</strong>ion with Russia, Central Asia and the<br />

Eastern Partnership Countries, former Minister of St<strong>at</strong>e), Rainer Lindner (Executive Director of the Committee on Eastern European Economic<br />

Rel<strong>at</strong>ions, BDI Feder<strong>at</strong>ion of <strong>German</strong> Industries), Andreas Umland (Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooper<strong>at</strong>ion, Kyiv)<br />

Moder<strong>at</strong>ion: Thomas Fricker (Badische Zeitung) in cooper<strong>at</strong>ion with the Colloquium Politicum <strong>at</strong> the University of Freiburg

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