News in brief 2026
17.02.2026 Jörg-Schönbohm-Rede: Unsichere Zeiten – Die Zukunft der Bundeswehr
On February 17, 2026, at 6:30 p.m., the Schönbohm Speech will take place at the Garrison Church in Potsdam. Professor Neitzel will deliver the keynote address and participate in the subsequent discussion (in German).
The event is organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Registration is requested. Further details can be found in the Flyer.
Book Presentation at the Chancellor Helmut Kohl Foundation
Dr Christian E. Rieck will speak at the research colloquium of the Chancellor Helmut Kohl Foundation on February 4, 2026. He will present the core theses of his book “Wissenschaft und Zivilmacht” (Science and Civilian Power), which was published by Gebr. Mann Verlag in Berlin at the end of 2024. The book is a history of the multifaceted West German science diplomacy during the Cold War, which also extends beyond 1990. In conversation with contemporary witnesses and historians, it also aims to explore the limits of archive-based diplomatic history.
Podcast with Prof. Neitzel: “The old world is over”
In an interview with NDR Info, Professor Neitzel talks about the relationship between the EU and the US and explains why he is skeptical that the fighting in Ukraine will end soon.
Interview with Christian E. Rieck on RBB (07.01.2026)
In an interview with “radio3 am Morgen,” Christian E. Rieck ventured the following thesis: The Trump administration has successfully tested a new template for regime change in Venezuela. The military success of this surgical operation will encourage it to try this elsewhere—this is a signal to the region to take the US's renewed claim to power very seriously. This fear-based gunboat diplomacy to enforce economic interests is naked superpower politics, with a modus operandi that dates back to before the Cold War.
Find more here (in German).
