International Security

The Research Depart­ment studies the classic field of inter­national security policy: States seek security, their own, that of their citizens, and of political, economic, and environ­mental relation­ships. How states pursue this goal is crucial for the main­tenance of peace and the risk of violent conflict. The depart­ment’s empirical work focuses on those practices and strategies of states that are associated with military violence or that seek to prevent or limit its application. Highest priority is given to the latest develop­ments and dynamics in warfare, the trans­formation of norms and rules regarding the legitimate use of force, and arms control. Besides conducting basic theoretical research, the Research Depart­ment has a long-standing expertise in policy consultation and an ongoing interest in the policy issues of arms control, dis­arma­ment and the non-pro­liferation of weapons of mass destruction.

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Head of Research Department

Christopher Daase

Christopher Daase

Secretariat

Viola Niemack

Viola Niemack

Research Fellows

Patrick Flamm

Carmen García López

Carmen García López

Malte Göttsche

Malte Göttsche

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Timothée Hillier-Davis

Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan

Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan

Una Jakob

Una Jakob

Veronika Klymova

Veronika Klymova

Frank Kuhn

Clara Perras

Clara Perras

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Fumie Nakamura

Thomas Reinhold

Thomas Reinhold

Kadri Reis

Kadri Reis

Niklas Schörnig

Niklas Schörnig

Liska Suckau

Fabian Unruh

Fabian Unruh

Simone Wisotzki

Simone Wisotzki

Associate Fellows

Almuntaser Albalawi

Jana Baldus

Jana Baldus

Majlinda Behrami

Majlinda Behrami

Anna-Katharina Ferl

Anna-Katharina Ferl

Samuel Forsythe

Sam Forsythe

Harald Müller

Harald Müller

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Luis Pazos Clemens

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Lukas Rademacher

Victoria Scheyer

Hans-Joachim Schmidt

Hans-Joachim Schmidt

Yan-Jie Schnellbach

Yan-Jie Schnellbach

Peter Schreiner

Peter Schreiner

Matthias Schwarz

Matthias Schwarz

Madita Stanke-Erdmann

Madita Standke-Erdmann

Jens Stappenbeck

Jens Stappenbeck

Tobias Wille

Tobias Wille

Knowledge Transfer

Elisabeth Waczek

Student Assistants

  • Solveig Albrecht
  • Mariam Al-Wally
  • Henrike Buch
  • Irem Demirci
  • Elena Günther
  • Rohula Kazimi
  • Abdullah Kasim Korkusuz
  • Hannah Marksteiner
  • Rik Kooter

Projects

ACONA aims to fill the gap in the current arms control skills training base by combining technical expertise with the acquisition of advanced negotiation skills. By combining expert lectures with immersive training exercises, the Academy will train emerging leaders in the fields of arms control, peace and conflict studies and international security.

The Arms Control Negotiation Academy

The CNTR research and transfer cluster explores new military-relevant technologies and developments in the natural sciences from an interdisciplinary perspective. Our team of researchers from different disciplines investigates impacts on international security, classifies them in a scientifically sound manner and, on this basis, develops recommendations for action to strengthen arms control.

Cluster for Natural and Technical Science Arms Control Research (CNTR)

Compliance with and enforcement of the norms against chemical and biological weapons (CBW) are important factors for the success of CBW disarmament. The PRIF sub-project in the CBWNet project analyzes related political and legal challenges and processes as well as their interaction with the norms. The joint research project CBWNet studies the normative framework of CBW control and develops policy options to strengthen it in a sustainable way.

CBWNet – Compliance with and Enforcement of the Norms Against Chemical and Biological Weapons

Given the high-tech nature of Western armed forces with remote-controlled, semi-autonomous and autonomous systems, this project examines in particular the characteristics of the use of autonomous and robotic technologies as well as the social impact of high-tech warfare on possible post-war orders. In this way, the project contributes both to basic research and increasingly to applied research on the technologization of war.

New Forms of Warfare: The Transformation of War

The EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium is a network of six independent European think tanks supporting the non-proliferation and disarmament policies of the European Union and leading a network of over 100 European think tanks working on arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament.

EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium

In times of growing geopolitical tensions, questions of arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation regain importance. To support political decision-makers, the German Federal Foreign Office and PRIF have established a joint doctoral program. The doctoral researchers analyze historical, current and future arms control issues and integrate scientific debates with practical implementation. Following a successful pilot phase (2019-2024), the project continues with two doctoral positions (2024-2027/8).

Perspectives of Arms Control

Deceptive stratagems like disinformation or covert influence operations have become central problems of international security – widely seen as threats to the production of political knowledge. Yet ‘deception’ remains a surprisingly marginal and misunderstood political concept. This project uncovers the relation between deceptive statecraft and the search for political knowledge, explaining why it is becoming increasingly significant for international security today.

Deception & Inquiry in International Security: The logic of epistemic struggle from the Cold War to cyber conflict

The project investigates efforts to address lasting injustices caused by nuclear weapons. While both the use of nuclear weapons in World War II and nuclear testing have entailed widespread human suffering and environmental damage, responsible states have yet to address these legacies in adequate ways. The project analyzes victims’ struggles for nuclear justice, as well as international norm dynamics relating to nuclear justice.

Transitional Justice in the Nuclear Age: Addressing Past Legacies of Nuclear Use and Testing

Backlash and resistance against gender-sensitive human rights are ubiquitous. A prominent example is certainly the Colombian peace treaty or the failed peace process in Afghanistan. This project brings together two strands of feminist research: First, feminist research on, but also critique of, liberal peacebuilding; second, research on forms of resistance and so-called gender backlash regarding gender-sensitive human rights.

Dealing with Resistances and Backlash of Gender Equality Norms in Peacebuilding

PhD Projects

Future nuclear disarmament treaties will likely include the verification of complete and correct declarations of items related to nuclear weapons programs. Nuclear archaeology is a field of research aiming at reconstructing the operational history of facilities producing fissile material which is an integral component of nuclear weapons. The methods of nuclear archaeology can provide estimates for past fissile material production making them a useful asset for assessing the completeness of fissile material declarations.
This research project, located within the Research Group Science for Nuclear Diplomacy of the Cluster for Natural and Technical Science Arms Control Research (CNTR), intends to advance existing techniques by including novel data sources as well as sophisticated statistical data analysis tools. It is planned to improve forensic measurement analysis, which is an important tool in nuclear archaeology, by systematically focusing on the most important information as well as complementing the measurements with data from archives documenting the historical operation of nuclear reactors. A particular focus of the project lays on implementing machine learning techniques, including recently established methods in the field of deep learning, for proper analysis of large data sets and reliable statistical statements. Finally, the integration of statistical results in a political verification regime is addressed.

Fabian Unruh

Fabian Unruh

Doctoral Researcher

Samuel Forsythe's dissertation project examines the relation­ship and develop­ment of political conflict, infor­mation and communi­cation tech­nology (ICT) and strategic practice. It focuses on the develop­ment of theories, practices and discourses that instrumen­talize knowledge, cognition and communi­cation as political and military means. The moti­vation for the study is the question: How have new media and tech­nologies enabled and trans­formed conflicts in the communi­cative and cognitive spheres?

The working hypo­thesis is that ICT promotes the inten­sification of types of conflict that stress stratagem, deception and manipu­lation as essential instru­ments for political actors and at the same time enable the dissemi­nation of these instru­ments among non-state actors. Further­more, the "hybrid" character of today's society - in which tech­nology exter­nalizes our cognitive and com­municative processes - creates a situation in which attacks on infor­mation processing systems can con­stitute a form of violence.

Empiri­cally, the research project includes an analysis of the new forms of strategic ratio­nality developed through the discourse and practices of states­manship, intel­ligence and infor­mation warfare, cyber and infor­mation security, and their inter­actions with the broader field of social communi­cation and collective epis­temic practice.

Samuel Forsythe

Sam Forsythe

Doctoral Researcher

It is commonly assumed that nuclear arms control pursues the goal of strategic stability. In recent years, however, newly declassified historical sources have shown that the concept of strategic stability played at best a minor role for US decision-makers in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) that took place between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1969 and 1979. This dissertation project builds on the recent scholarship and uses historical sources to examine the relevance of strategic stability in US arms control policy during the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) between 1981 and 1989. It also analyzes what other factors were decisive for the negotiations. In particular, the project aims to identify new approaches for future arms control negotiations and a restart of nuclear arms control.

Frank Kuhn

Doctoral Researcher

Recent events in the Middle East, Ukraine, and North Korea show that the risk of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons is still high. While existing inter­national security regimes related to these weapons are robust, they are in crisis. Violations and contestation of regimes create shocks and junctures that would either strengthen or weaken them. Compliance and enforcement are the normative practices to address such violations. The robustness of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons regimes correlates to the effectiveness of existing enforcement norms and procedures. Having all three regimes at a turning point makes analyzing the evolution of enforcement practices across the three regimes timely. The project involves a cross-regime analysis of enforce­ment norms and procedures to study the differences and offer an under­standing of the implications for the regimes.

Almuntaser Albalawi

Associate Fellow

This dissertation speaks to the recent scholarship in political science which has once again become interested in “bridging the gap” between academics and practitioners, discussing the opportunities and challenges of science-policy knowledge transfer in addressing pressing issues. In the field of arms control and disarmament, there are many such pressing issues in need of solutions: Transnational shifts and changes continue to challenge the arms control pillars of the Cold War, many of which have already eroded. At the same time, emerging technologies and advancements will have an impact on the future of arms control even if there is a great deal of uncertainty on how exactly. As a result of these complexities, policymakers require technical and field-specific knowledge, while scientists’ work is influenced by political processes and dynamics. However, little contemporary, comparative research exists about science-policy interactions in arms control which take place in various formal and informal settings. Linking theory-building on “epistemic communities” to interdisciplinary research on knowledge transfer and exchange, this dissertation seeks to conceptualise and understand the agency of social and natural scientists in arms control policy processes in Germany. Specifically, it investigates the interplay of values, activism and scientific evidence in science-policy interactions. Empirically focusing on the German arms control community, I use a mixed-methods approach, by combining quantitative data (survey) and qualitative research (in-depth case studies, interviews, participant observations).

Maximilian Tkocz

Maximilian Tkocz

Doctoral Researcher

News

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Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan gave the keynote speech in the Austrian parliament

Completed Projects

This project investigated the conditions that enable norms to success­fully be established and implemented in the context of clashing justice and sovereignty claims made by states. The key question addressed how states’ convergent and/or differing morals and conceptions of justice affect the establish­ment and implemen­tation of global norms through the United Nations. We assessed whether differing ideas of justice give rise to conflict among inter­acting states. Do divergent concep­tions of justice hinder normative agree­ment between the negotiation partners, or even the realization of global forms of governance?

Multilateral negotiations have shown that demands for the legal codifi­cation of global human rights norms – particularly in the policy area of security – is met with resistance from states which refuse such a conditioning of their national sovereignty. Negotiations for the inter­national Arms Trade Treaty only granted marginal attention to calls for greater consideration of human rights issues in the area of evaluating weapons exports. In two rounds of bargaining, negotiations likewise failed on account of justice issues. Unresolved conflicts over justice often reemerge in the implementation and application phases for a given norm – as evidenced in the example of the inter­national Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

This project analyzed debates present in the UN Security Council the UN General Assembly; it used a content analysis and compared three policy areas:

  • Humanitarian inter­vention: The “Responsibility to Protect” represents a new norm aimed at defending human rights. It justifies actions spanning from conditioning sovereignty to the use of military force, even without prior consent of the affected state’s govern­ment. However, efforts to establish a doctrine for humanitarian inter­vention that would have made such intrusions possible without consent from the UN Security Council proved unsuccessful.
  • Humanitarian arms control: the areas of small arms control and the inter­national Arms Trade Treaty are both host to divergent moral convic­tions and percep­tions of justice that pursue the establish­ment and implemen­tation of norms. At the same time, the protection of national sovereignty – such as the right to self-defense according to article 51 of the UN Charter – limits efforts to establish inter­national regulations.
  • Violence towards women: gender-specific human rights permeate the security sector and appear in norms such as UNSC Resolution 1325 “Women, Peace and Security”. Conflicts related to percep­tions of justice arise over issues such as the reach of the norms in question, selectivity in their implemen­tation, and their encroachment into domestic jurisdiction.

The findings from this research area provided both theoretical and practical contri­butions. As such, the project developed a theory of empirical universalism that demonstrates the scope and limits of conceptions of justice in relation to the conditioning of state sovereignty. The project also identified practical strategies that can be applied to negotiations involving the definition and implementation of contested norms.

Project duration: May 2014 – January 2018

Publications

  • The International Implementation of R2P: Norm Contestation and Its Consequences
    | 2023
    Hofmann; Gregor P. (2023): The International Implementation of R2P: Norm Contestation and Its Consequences, in: Reichwein, Alexander; Hansel, Mischa (eds), Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect, Cham: Springer, 23–51. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27412-1_2
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  • Bilanz nach fünfzehn Jahren Schutzverantwortung
    | 2020
    Hofmann, Gregor P. (2020): Bilanz nach fünfzehn Jahren Schutzverantwortung. Früher handeln statt später bedauern, Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, 5, 37–41.
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  • Die Schutzverantwortung - umstritten und doch anerkannt?
    | 2020
    Hofmann, Gregor P. (2020): Die Schutzverantwortung - umstritten und doch anerkannt?, in: Hansel, Mischa/Reichwein, Alexander (eds), Die Internationale Schutzverantwortung: Etabliert. Herausgefordert. Gescheitert?, Münster: LIT Verlag, 25–52.
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  • Gender Justice in Multilateral Negotiations
    | 2019
    Wisotzki, Simone (2019): Gender Justice in Multilateral Negotiations. The Case of SGBV in the Rome Statute and the ICC, in: Fehl, Caroline/Peters, Dirk/Wisotzki, Simone/Wolff, Jonas (eds), Justice and Peace. The role of justice claims in international cooperation and conflict, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 115-135.
  • Idlib: Humanitäre Katastrophe aufgeschoben, nicht durchgestanden – Ein Debattenbeitrag
    | 2018
    Hofmann, Gregor P. (2018): Idlib: Humanitäre Katastrophe aufgeschoben, nicht durchgestanden – Ein Debattenbeitrag, genocide-alert.de.
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  • Gerechtigkeitskonflikte und Normentwicklung
    | 2019
    Hofmann, Gregor P. (2019): Gerechtigkeitskonflikte und Normentwicklung. Die internationale Umstrittenheit der Responsibility to Protect, Studien des Leibniz-Instituts Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Vom Verhandlungstisch in die Konfliktzonen: Die Menschenrechte von Überlebenden sexueller Gewalt stärken
    | 2019
    Wisotzki, Simone (2019): Vom Verhandlungstisch in die Konfliktzonen: Die Menschenrechte von Überlebenden sexueller Gewalt stärken, in: Christian, Ben/Coni-Zimmer, Melanie (eds), Deutschland im UN-Sicherheitsrat 2019–2020. Eine Halbzeitbilanz, Frankfurt/M, 20–22.
  • Ten Years R2P – What Doesn‘t Kill a Norm Only Makes It Stronger?
    | 2015
    Hofmann, Gregor P. (2015): Ten Years R2P – What Doesn‘t Kill a Norm Only Makes It Stronger?. Contestation, Application and Institutionalization of International Atrocity Prevention and Response, PRIF Report, 133, Frankfurt/M.
  • R2P Ten Years on
    | 2015
    Hofmann, Gregor P. (2015): R2P Ten Years on. Unresolved Justice Conflicts and Contestation, Global Responsibility to Protect, 7, 275–299.
  • Global Governance Efforts in Tension between Humanitarian Concerns and Statist Sovereignty Rights
    | 2014
    Hofmann, Gregor P.; Wisotzki, Simone (2014): Global Governance Efforts in Tension between Humanitarian Concerns and Statist Sovereignty Rights, International Negotiation, 19: 3, 487–517.
  • Im Streit gestärkt oder umstrittener als behauptet?
    | 2014
    Hofmann, Gregor P. (2014): Im Streit gestärkt oder umstrittener als behauptet?. Zehn Jahre diplomatische Kontroversen über die Schutzverantwortung, HSFK-Report, 9, Frankfurt/M.
  • Notfalls mit Gewalt?
    | 2013
    Wisotzki, Simone (2013): Notfalls mit Gewalt?. Globale Gerechtigkeit und die Rechtfertigung militärischer Intervention, Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 2: 1, 98-129.
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Project Lead

Harald Müller

Prof. em. Dr. Harald Müller

Associate Fellow // Former Director of PRIF //

Simone Wisotzki

Dr. habil. Simone Wisotzki

Projektleiterin // Senior Researcher //

Staff

Gregor P. Hofmann

Like many other dis­armament agreements, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is in crisis. This limits the scope for action for member states and reduces the effec­tive­ness of treaty-based biological weapons control. To maintain and strengthen biological dis­armament, it is therefore necessary to identify options also beyond the BWC and international treaty law. The project aimed to contribute to such research by analyzing whether customary international law holds opportunities to strengthen biological weapons control – or, more precisely: whether a customary norm exists against the possession of biological weapons.

To achieve this, the existing state practice regarding biological weapons pos­ses­sion was system­atically analyzed and documented. Using inter alia computer-based qualitative content analysis, it was also be explored whether a pertinent opinio juris can be identified. By addressing the prohibition of biological weapons from a customary law perspective, the project added a new angle to biological dis­armament research. It could also contribute empirical findings to the international legal discourse on the determination of customary rules and to the debate about the political relevance of customary international law. The project was expected to yield insights regarding the following questions: whether there exists a customary norm regarding the possession of biological weapons, whether such a norm could contribute to strengthening biological weapons control and, more generally, whether customary international law provides opportunities to strengthen multilateral arms control.

Project duration: October 2018 – January 2023

Publications

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Project Lead

Una Jakob

Dr. Una Jakob

Head of Research Group // Senior Researcher //

Since NATO celebrated its 70th birthday in 2019, discussions about the future of the alliance have intensified in its member states. Underlying this debate was not only the sharp criticism of the alliance articulated by then-US president Donald Trump. French president Emmanuel Macron’s diagnosis of NATO’s “brain death” is also indicative of deep fissures, such as the increasingly divisive role played by Turkey in the Atlantic alliance.

The inauguration of Trump’s successor, Joe Biden, marked a potentially important turning point in the debate. On the one hand, observers expected the US to adopt a more positive stance toward multilateralism and alliances, opening a window of opportunity for the further development of NATO; on the other, important problems and challenges remain. One key issue was Biden’s project of a Global Summit for Democracy, which could push NATO – as an alliance of democracies – toward an increasingly global role.

Against this background, and based on the assumption that the alliance will remain the central frame of reference for the joint organization of military security and defence, the PRIF study undertook a comprehensive mapping of the key strands of discussion and diverging political positions on these issues taken within NATO member states.

Project duration: December 2020 – March 2021

Publications

  • Der kanadische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO
    | 2021
    Peters, Dirk (2021): Der kanadische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Atlantische Zukünfte. Eine vergleichende Analyse nationaler Debatten über die Reform der NATO, Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 32–38.
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  • Der britische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO
    | 2021
    Peters, Dirk (2021): Der britische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Atlantische Zukünfte. Eine vergleichende Analyse nationaler Debatten über die Reform der NATO, Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 88–93.
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  • Three Visions for NATO
    | 2021
    Dembinski, Matthias; Fehl, Caroline (2021): Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
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  • On the Road to NATO 2030: How the Organization Views the Future of NATO
    | 2021
    Dembinski, Matthias; Fehl, Caroline (2021): On the Road to NATO 2030: How the Organization Views the Future of NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 8–15.
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  • The United States Debates the Future of NATO
    | 2021
    Fehl, Caroline (2021): The United States Debates the Future of NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 16–28.
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  • The Canadian Discourse on NATO's Future
    | 2021
    Peters, Dirk (2021): The Canadian Discourse on NATO's Future, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 29–35.
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  • Germany's View of the Future of NATO: Neccessary but in Need of Repair
    | 2021
    Dembinski, Matthias (2021): Germany's View of the Future of NATO: Neccessary but in Need of Repair, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO: Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 43-48.
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  • Italy Debates the Future of NATO
    | 2021
    Dembinski, Matthias (2021): Italy Debates the Future of NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 49–53.
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  • The Netherlands and Future of NATO
    | 2021
    Dembinski, Matthias (2021): The Netherlands and Future of NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 54–58.
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  • Poland: Strengthening the Eastern Flank
    | 2021
    Spanger, Hans-Joachim (2021): Poland: Strengthening the Eastern Flank, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 59–63.
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  • The Romanian Debate on the Future of NATO
    | 2021
    Dembinski, Matthias (2021): The Romanian Debate on the Future of NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 64–67.
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  • Spain and the Future of NATO
    | 2021
    Dembinski, Matthias (2021): Spain and the Future of NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 68–71.
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  • Turkey Discusses its Complex Relationship with NATO
    | 2021
    Göğüş, Sezer İdil (2021): Turkey Discusses its Complex Relationship with NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 72–79.
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  • The UK Discourse on NATO's Future
    | 2021
    Peters, Dirk (2021): The UK Discourse on NATO's Future, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO: Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 80–85.
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  • Russia and the Divisive Discourse on NATO
    | 2021
    Spanger, Hans-Joachim (2021): Russia and the Divisive Discourse on NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 87–92.
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  • Ukraine Debates the Future of Nato
    | 2021
    Polianskii, Mikhail (2021): Ukraine Debates the Future of Nato, in: Dembinski, Mathias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 93–97.
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  • Through the Kaleidoscope: Comparing Visions of NATO
    | 2021
    Dembinski, Matthias; Fehl, Caroline (2021): Through the Kaleidoscope: Comparing Visions of NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 99–106.
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Project Lead

Caroline Fehl

Dr. Caroline Fehl

Senior Researcher

Matthias Dembinski

Dr. Matthias Dembinski

Associate Fellow

Staff

Niklas Schörnig

Dr. Niklas Schörnig

Senior Researcher // Head of Research Group //

Sezer Idil Gögüs

Sezer İdil Göğüş

Associate Fellow

Dirk Peters

Dr. Dirk Peters

Senior Researcher

Mikhail Polianskii

Dr. Mikhail Polianskii

Researcher

Hans-Joachim Spanger

Dr. Hans-Joachim Spanger

Associate Fellow

  • Janna Chalmovsky

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on “Women, Peace and Security” and its successor resolutions strive for the equal participation of women in political processes and institutions in the management and prevention of conflicts as well as the special protection of women and girls in war zones. However, there are major differences in the implementation of national multilateral foreign, development and security policies, and a number of various “best practices” in that regard.

The project, which was funded by the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt), prepared and implemented a planning staff workshop on gender-sensitive policies and the implementation of UNSCR 1325. The workshop targeted the planning staffs of those foreign ministries that were particularly successful in implementing gender-sensitive security and peace policy and that systematically implemented UNSCR 1325 as a cross-cutting issue in their ministry/organization. The aim of the planning staff workshop was to develop practical ideas for a systematic and sustainable implementation of the agenda on women, peace and security.

The project was carried out by PRIF in cooperation with GAIC Gender Associations International Consulting GmbH.

Project duration: November 2020 – October 2023

Publications

  • Here, There, and Everywhere: Feminist Resistance beyond the “Women, Peace and Security” Agenda in Post-Coup Myanmar
    | 2022
    Xie, Peixuan (2022): Here, There, and Everywhere: Feminist Resistance beyond the “Women, Peace and Security” Agenda in Post-Coup Myanmar, PRIF Blog.
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Project Lead

Simone Wisotzki

Dr. habil. Simone Wisotzki

Projektleiterin // Senior Researcher //

Staff

Julian Junk

Prof. Dr. Julian Junk

Head of Research Group

Victoria Scheyer

Associate Fellow

Anton Peez

Dr. Anton Peez

Associate Fellow