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Constanze Stelzenmüller

Constanze Stelzenmüller writes commentary on global affairs for the Financial Times. An expert on German, European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is currently the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, and a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution

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  • Thursday, 6 February, 2020
    German politics
    Free Democrats play with fire in Thuringia

    The far-right AfD’s role as kingmaker could threaten Germany’s ruling coalition

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    Geopolitics
    West must reassess its record on intervention 

    There have been successes but also a string of moral, diplomatic and military failures 

  • Monday, 30 December, 2019
    Germany
    Shadows of the past threaten Europe’s shared future

    It is not just western liberalism under attack but the very notion of a system based on objective facts

  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2019
    German politics
    Power struggle to lead Germany’s CDU has been postponed

    Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer’s flash of steel at the party conference has won her time

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2019
    Syrian crisis
    An EU security force in Syria is a courageous idea

    Western passivity is not just morally reprehensible, it harms our security interests

  • Sunday, 8 September, 2019
    Alternative für Deutschland
    Germany’s AfD wolf is at the door

    Votes for the far-right party are votes to supplant liberal democracy and openness

  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2019
    German politics
    Germany should lead a European naval mission in the Gulf

    Its posturing as a self-righteous pacifist is unconvincing

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2019
    US politics & policy
    National conservatism is coming for Washington

    Enthusiasm for an assertive state is the movement’s main departure from its Reagan-era predecessor

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2019
    German politics
    German radical right threatens the survival of democracy

    Some domestic security agencies appear unwilling or unable to tackle the threat of extremism

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  • Thursday, 9 May, 2019
    German politics
    Trump treats Germany like ‘America’s worst ally’

    US nationalists dislike Berlin’s attitude but are not clear what they want instead

  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2019
    EU defence
    Germans must start taking defence spending seriously  

    How Angela Merkel might persuade her fellow citizens to pay more for their own security

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
    European Union
    A new Franco-German narrative for Europe

    There are significant differences in the visions set out by Macron and ‘AKK’

  • Wednesday, 30 January, 2019
    US foreign policy
    US policy on Europe takes a nationalist turn

    The Trump administration is hostile to bodies that it says curtail sovereignty

  • Wednesday, 5 December, 2018
    Nord Stream 2 AG
    Nord Stream 2 is a foreign policy trap for Germany

    Berlin continues to defend a gas pipeline that achieves Russia’s strategic ends

  • Monday, 29 October, 2018
    German politics
    German centre’s collapse brings Merkel era to a close     

    The chancellor’s Christian Democrats and coalition partners are on the wane 

  • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
    Opinion
    Bolton is wrong to attack the ICC

    He should concentrate on the more serious strategic challenges facing the US

  • Sunday, 5 August, 2018
    German politics
    Germany faces worst security dilemma since 1950s

    The debate over the future of nuclear deterrence in Europe is simmering in Berlin

  • Wednesday, 20 June, 2018
    FT CollectionsThe battle over migration
    Merkel to Trump: thanks for making me great again

    The president’s attacks are actually working to the chancellor’s advantage

  • Monday, 4 June, 2018
    Eurozone reform
    Merkel stretches out a hand to her neighbours

    Germany’s chancellor offers a unifying economic plan to mollify a divided Europe

  • Monday, 11 December, 2017
    German politics
    Germany weighs its coalition options, Europe waits

    Its partners await a sign that the country is willing to take a leadership role

  • Friday, 20 May, 2016
    Brexit
    Germans unamused by Johnson’s Nazi jibe

    His lobbing of insults is an ingratiating lunge at the punters, writes Constanze Stelzenmüller

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2016
    German politics
    The Böhmermann affair is just a sideshow

    The row with Turkey over a poem must be kept in proportion, writes Constanze Stelzenmüller

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