In an interconnected world, geopolitics is no longer defined by power alone.
The balance between Europe, Russia, China, and the United States is increasingly shaped by perception, interdependence, and strategic foresight.
Understanding different interests and narratives is key to transforming rivalry into dialogue; and competition into cooperation in today’s evolving world order.
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
With all the war rhetoric coming not only from Russia but also from the so-called Western community of values, one might easily get the impression that we are trying to test whether NATO is still…
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
Bei aller Kriegsrhetorik heutzutage, die nicht nur aus Russland, sondern auch aus der sogenannten westlichen Wertegemeinschaft kommt, könnte man leicht den Eindruck gewinnen, dass versucht wird…
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
Immanuel Kant: “Out of wood so crooked as that of which man is made, nothing absolutely straight can be wrought.”
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. I was surprised. I had never been…
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.
24.01.2023
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or…
02.08.2022
19.06.2022
The Weeping Soldier and the Baby – On board the freighter Göttingen, January 1945
24.09.2021
BRI is a novel spatial security arrangement and part of China’s grand strategy for rebalancing global order. Uncertainty persists and conflict resulting from China’s rise is not an inevitability. It…
29.08.2021
Peaceful co-existence of nation-states or institutional global governance with international organizations and their sphere of influence gaining more and more ground, even in everyone’s private life?
01.07.2021
Was der 22. Juni 1941 heute für Russen und deren Verhältnis zu den Deutschen bedeutet.
29.03.2021
Arbitrary Borders and Borders of Civilisation. Jacques Ancel mainly distiunguishes between two types of border.
08.02.2021
Oblast Kaliningrad-Königsberg: 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. “There are no problems with borders. There are only problems with nations.” (Ancel…
05.10.2020
Napoleon warned: “Let China sleep; when she awakes, she will shake the world”. As China awakens, the world around it is rumbling with the rise of national populism in the West and elsewhere. Donald…
25.08.2020
Identités et frontières : Comment peut-on respecter et assurer le droit à l’autodétermination des êtres humains sans autant diviser? Comment respecter la souveraineté des États et des territoires…
25.08.2020
What does it mean to live in a world without global leadership? Where is the European Union heading? What impact will Trump’s “America first” policy and China’s Belt & Road Initiative have on…
25.08.2020
Notre monde globalisé traverse un moment décisif de son histoire. Non seulement l'internationalisation de la Chine bouleverse les enjeux géopolitiques mondiaux, mais les nombreuses crises…
25.08.2020
China’s meta-strategy and Europe - The driver behind this commercial project is, above all, a new ideology being advanced by the CPC.
25.08.2020
"We intend to be kind to everyone. We have many friends. But just as importantly, we aspire to remain ourselves." - Lee Kuan Yen, Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-1990)
