Specialist conference
Details
The "turn of the times" will be examined from various European and transatlantic perspectives: it is particularly evident in the Nordic countries, among others, from where the National Security Advisor of the Kingdom of Sweden, Henrik Landerholm, will open the conference with his impressions. Angus Lapsley, NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Defense Policy and Planning, will provide an update from the defense alliance's perspective.
Workshops on Foreign and Security Policy
Immediately before the start of the XI Adenauer Conference on Germany's role in international security policy, we would like to create space at the Academy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for an intensive exchange of young foreign and security policy experts from a broad spectrum of the field. In 2x2 workshops current security policy topics will be dealt with in small groups.
The aim is to leave the comfort zone by cooperating with different security policy networks, to seek controversy and to exchange arguments. The questions, thought-provoking impulses and theses condensed here are to flow into the discussion of the panels in the afternoon. The workshops and lunch are intended to encourage networking, exchange and further development of ideas.
For more information on the workshops and the link to register, click here.
Program
2:00 pm – Registration and Refreshments
2:30 pm – Welcome Remarks and Introduction
Welcome Remarks
Dr. Peter Fischer-Bollin
Head of the Division Analysis and Consulting at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Introduction
Henrik Landerholm (tbc)
National Security Advisor, Kingdom of Sweden
3:00 pm – Panel I: The Bundeswehr 2023: Capable of a Cold Start?
German defence capability must be rethought. How is the Bundeswehr positioned ten months after the adoption of the special fund? Is the Bundeswehr up to its task of national and alliance defence? How does society view the armed forces? Is the reserve strategy working? Have society and politics adjusted to being a leading European power?
Serap Güler MP
Member of the Defence Committee of the German Bundestag
Lieutenant General Markus Laubenthal
Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr
Dr. Pia Fuhrhop
Research Division International Security at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
Moderation
Miriam Hollstein
Chief Reporter Politics of the online news portal t-online
4:00 pm – Coffee Break
4:30 pm – Panel II: Strategic Realignments from the Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific
The USA updated their National Security and Defence Strategies at the end of 2022, Germany will follow suit in spring 2023 with its first own National Security Strategy. The USA, NATO and the EU name Russia as an immediate threat to global security. In addition, China is perceived as a medium-term threat to the rule-based international order. Where do Western partners see the need to adapt defence policies? Where are the similarities, where are the differences? What about support for further economic sanctions against Russia?
Impulse
Angus Lapsley
Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning at NATO
Discussion
Roderich Kiesewetter MP
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag
Angus Lapsley
Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning at NATO
Rachel Rizzo
Non-resident Senior Fellow at the des Atlantic Council’s Europe Center
Dr. Élie Tenenbaum
Research Fellow, Director of Ifri's Security Studies Center (Institut français des rela-tions internationales, Paris)
Moderation
Alena Kudzko
Vice President for Policy and Programming at GLOBSEC
6:15 pm – Final Remarks
Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert
Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung &
Former President of the German Bundestag
