In an increasingly interconnected world, geopolitics can no longer be understood through power politics alone. The evolving balance between Europe, Russia, China, and the United States is shaped not only by military and economic strength, but also by perception, interdependence, and strategic foresight.
In this space, I explore the geopolitical transformations of our time and the emerging multipolar world order. My commentaries seek to understand different interests, narratives, and historical perspectives — because only through understanding can rivalry evolve into dialogue and competition into cooperation.
11.03.2026
Who doesn't remember looking through a kaleidoscope for the first time as a child? Colorful little particles magically reassemble themselves again and again.
25.11.2025
Soft power connects where hard power divides; China shows this through culture, emotion and flexibility, while Russia’s artistic heritage continues to inspire worldwide.
15.08.2025
The Potsdam Conference, which took place 80 years ago from July 17 to August 2, 1945, stands as a symbol of diplomacy and the negotiation of a new peaceful world order.
17.06.2025
Constant provocations are a dangerous game. Do we really want to experience what our parents and grandparents went through?
05.05.2025
Many people do not realize how lucky we all are to be living in these times of change and upheaval – so, let’s make something of it!
01.05.2025
Ständige Provokationen sind ein gefährliches Spiel mit dem Feuer. Wollen wir wirklich das erleben, was unsere Eltern bzw. unsere Großeltern durchgemacht haben?
28.04.2025
Vor 80 Jahren fand die Potsdamer Konferenz vom 17. Juli bis 2. August 1945 statt: Ein Sinnbild für Diplomatie und Aushandeln einer neuen friedlichen Weltordnung.
06.12.2024
“Out of wood so crooked as that of which man is made, nothing absolutely straight can be wrought.” (Kant)
16.06.2024
Wouldn’t neutrality be the right answer and attitude in these troubled times?
31.10.2023
“Is your family German or Prussian?” our host, R., asked me abruptly in Lumpėnai, once Lompönen in the old Memel Territory, or Memelland as it is known in German.
12.08.2023
My grandparents would never have seen themselves as part of the Western community. They were Prussians and their gaze was always directed eastward.
10.04.2023
Scheinbar verschwundene Landschaften; tief verwurzelt in der deutschen Seele. Liebevoll wurde ich oft von meiner Mutter mit ihrem ostpreußischen Dialekt „Katjuscha“ genannt.
24.01.2023
In the loving East Prussian dialect of my family; I am still “Katjuscha” and “Marjellchen,” their little girl.
02.08.2022
Der weinende Soldat mit einem Baby in seinen Armen; eine Begegnung an Bord des Frachters Göttingen, Januar 1945.
19.06.2022
The Weeping Soldier and a Baby in his arms; An Encounter Aboard the Freighter Göttingen, January 1945.
10.06.2022
Ein innerer Kompass führte mich liebevoll durch Königsberg und Schneidemühl, zu den Orten meiner Familie.
01.05.2022
An inner compass guided me gently through the streets of Königsberg and Schneidemühl.
24.09.2021
BRI is a spatial security arrangement and part of China’s grand strategy for rebalancing global order.
29.08.2021
"Krieg ist das Ergebnis einer falschen Politik und sein Erbe Not und Elend." (Gestrüpp meines Lebens, a diary kept by my grandfather, Helmuth Banik)
01.07.2021
Was der 22. Juni 1941 heute für Russen und deren Verhältnis zu den Deutschen bedeutet. (von Andrei Kortunov).
29.03.2021
Arbitrary Borders and Borders of Civilisation.
08.02.2021
Königsberg-Kaliningrad: at the heart of German-Russian cooperation.
08.12.2020
The real problem does not stem from the issue of borders. Borders will always exist, even in the globalised world.
05.10.2020
Napoleon warned: “Let China sleep; when she awakes, she will shake the world”.
25.08.2020
Identités et frontières : Comment peut-on respecter et assurer le droit à l’autodétermination sans pour autant diviser?
25.08.2020
Somewhere between China’s meta-strategy and EU's lost dreams.
25.08.2020
Vers une nouvelle gouvernance globale de valeur humaine; une vraie identité de cœur.
25.08.2020
China’s meta-strategy: The driver behind BRI is a new ideology by the CPC.
25.08.2020
Beyond borders: Integrating systems of opposing values into a new global cosmopolitical governance.