Kommende Veranstaltungen

25. Februar 2021 | Europa und die geopolitische Dynamik in der Arktis. Was will, was kann, was soll die EU im Hohen Norden tun?

25. Februar 2021, 17:00 - 18:30 Uhr

Online via Zoom

https://uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/91863500116?pwd=aTFNNHFMMHJWSElpRHNXUFViTTcxZz09

Webinar ID: 918 6350 0116

Webinar Kenncode: 816204

Die Arktis ist als Thema in den Medien und der Öffentlichkeit inzwischen fast omnipräsent. Doch während hier der Fokus meist auf dem Klimawandel und den makroregionalen geographisch-biotischen, mitunter auch sozioökonomischen Dynamiken der Erderwärmung liegt, so vollziehen sich andere Wandlungsprozesse im Hohen Norden eher im Stillen. Nicht nur Rußland hat seine arktischen Gebiete remilitarisiert, auch Washington und in ersten Ansätzen wohl auch Peking scheinen in der Region ambitionierter zu werden. Wie aber steht die Europäische Union zu den geopolitischen Veränderungen vor ihrer Haustür? Will oder sollte die EU auch eine arktische Macht werden? Was ist ihr Politikansatz für den hohen Norden und auf welchen Themenfelder möchte, sollte oder kann sie überhaupt Einfluß nehmen?

Referenten
Dr. Christoph Humrich ist Assistant Professor am Department of International Relations der Universität Groningen/NL. Er forscht zu Governance Fragen in der Arktis, ist Autor zahlreicher Publikationen aus diesem Themenfeld, u.a. als Mitherausgeber des „Logbuch Arktis. Der Raum, die Interessen und das Recht“ sowie Mitbegründer und Sprecher der DVPW-Themengruppe Polar- und Meerespolitik.

Dr. Michael Paul ist langjähriger Mitarbeiter und Senior Fellow der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin, war dort u.a. als Experte für Maritime Sicherheit, Projektleiter Streitkräftedialog und von 1995–2007 als Leiter des Forschungssekretariats der SWP tätig. Er ist Autor zahlreicher Forschungspapiere, Zeitschriftenbeiträge und Monographien, u.a. „Kriegsgefahr im Pazifik?“ (Nomos 2017). Zuletzt hat er mehrere Studien zu Themen aktueller Arktispolitik veröffentlicht.

Dr. Andreas Raspotnik ist Senior Researcher am High North Center for Business and Governance, der Nord University, Bodø, (Norwegen), Senior Fellow und Leadership Group member bei The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security Studies in Washington, DC und Senior Fellow am Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) in Oslo. Er ist Autor zahlreicher Studien und Forschungspapiere zu arktischen Themen und hat 2018 die Monographie „The European Union and the Geopolitics of the Arctic“ veröffentlicht.

Leitung
Dr. Joachim Weber ist Senior Visiting Fellow am CASSIS, Senior Fellow am Institut für Sicherheitspolitik der Universität Kiel (ISPK) und war langjähriger Mitarbeiter in diversen Bundesministerien und Bundesoberbehörden. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkt sind seit mehreren Jahren die Arktis und seit Jahrzehnten diverse Themenfelder aus dem Bereich der Maritimen Sicherheit. Er ist Herausgeber des neuen Arktis-Handbuchs bei Springer („Handbook on Geopolitics and Security in the Arctic“, 2020).

In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Sicherheitspolitik der Universität Kiel.

08. April 2021 | Rise Above? Debating Political and Organizational Fragmentations in European Space Policies (Reihe "Deutsch-Französischer Strategischer Dialog")

08. April 2021, 9-11 Uhr

Webinar

https://uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/98019036265?pwd=OGpZeUVndUU4L283Q2Q3V1JCUzRUZz09

Meeting-ID: 980 1903 6265
Kenncode: 768430

The current scientific and economic objectives of ESA’s and EU’s space missions and infrastructures are set in a highly political landscape of European industry and internal political dynamics, and Europe’s strategic alignment against great powers such as China, America and Russia. Despite the increasing political and economic importance of space research and exploration, legal competencies and policy activities of the EU and ESA still stand apart. This fragmentation in space policy, which is additionally flanked by national space strategies of the EU member countries, activities of the intergovernmental organization EUMETSAT and several intergovernmental bodies for satellite communications, bears important consequences and challenges for the near future of a coherent and competitive EU space policy. This Webinar seeks to identify the challenges ahead and discusses potential pathways towards a common space policy despite the complex landscape of supranational and independent intergovernmental bodies.

Participants

Matthias Wachter is Head of Department for International Cooperation, Security Policy, Raw Materials and Space at the Federation of German Industries (BDI). He is a member of the Space Program Commission at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Dr. Nina Klimburg-Witjes is a post-doc researcher in Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. Her work focuses on the politics of innovation, securitization processes and imaginations of social order vis-à-vis space technology and politics. She was a visiting fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), is a member of the German Expert Network on Security & Technology in Outer Space and a founding member of the international Social Studies of Outer Space Network.

Dr. Jean-Christophe Mauduit is a lecturer in science diplomacy at University College London Department of Science, Technology, Engineering in Public Policy. He was initially trained in physics and holds a PhD in astronomy. He then worked as a researcher on ESA and NASA satellite missions and as a Project Officer for the International Astronomical Union.

Dr. Andrew Williams is External Relations Officer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and is responsible for strategic government relations. Prior to ESO he worked for over a decade as senior policy advisor for NATO and as a physicist for the government of the United Kingdom. He holds a degree in physics and a doctorate in public policy.

Chair
Dr. Katharina C. Cramer is a research fellow at CASSIS working on international relations and the global politics of technology. Her research interests include various aspects of the history and politics of research infrastructures in the 20th and 21st centuries and the role of knowledge, innovation and technology in global contexts. She is author of A Political History of Big Science: The Other Europe (Palgrave) and co-editor of Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe (Edward Elgar).

In Kooperation mit dem Institut français Bonn und der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit.

22. April 2021 | Vorstellung der Fachstudie zur geostrategischen Rolle der Türkei

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20. Mai 2021 | Critical Raw Materials: Achieving European Supply Security

20. Mai 2021, 12:00 - 14:00 Uhr 

Webinar via Zoom

Critical raw materials (CRMs) are essential for key future sectors, industries and technologies, including agriculture and food production, renewable energies, battery development, electric cars, robotics, "Industry 4.0", digital technologies, and artificial intelligence, just to name a few. As a result, global demand for CRMs will significantly increase in the coming years, intensifying global competition. Against this backdrop, the issue of the importance of the supply security of CRMs has become a key item on the European Commission’s political agenda in recent years.

Germany, the EU’s largest economy, is already one of the world's fifth largest importers of raw materials and is a 100% net importer of metal ores and concentrates. At the same time, however, the global supply of many CRMs is limited to a few countries (which are also often politically unstable). In addition, geo-economic and geopolitical import dependencies are increasing with the rising demand for raw materials - and with them the risks and vulnerabilities of the European economy. China already dominates many value chains and is vying to control entire global value chains for key technologies, including the necessary demand for CRMs. The increase in future European CRM import dependencies will also have an impact on Europe’s climate protection efforts, as well as foreign and development policies. A political answer will have to be found very soon.

Initial steps are being taken. Both the German government and the EU want to pay greater attention to the issue of a stable supply of CRMs in the future, on the one hand, and to strengthen domestic self-sufficiency, on the other. The German government updated its raw materials strategy in January 2020 and the EU launched a Battery Alliance and, more recently in October 2020, a European Raw Materials Alliance, which aims to achieve "strategic autonomy" in order to strengthen CRM supply security while meeting the "green" ambitions of a sustainable industrial policy with a stronger consideration of the ecological footprint in extraction, processing and end products ("sustainable mining").

But, will these initiatives be enough to diversify the EU’s CRM supplies while meeting climate objectives? If not, what additional policy measures are necessary? How will these efforts impact current relations with China and other suppliers? What countries could be potential new suppliers? What are the security, economic and other risks, but also opportunities, associated with the EU’s efforts to diversify CRM imports, build its own value chains and form strategic partnerships? This event will feature policymakers, leading experts, and industry representatives to address these and other crucial issues associated with CRM supply security.

29. September - 02. Oktober 2021 | International Security Forum Bonn 2021

29. September - 02. Oktober 2021

The International Security Forum Bonn 2021 is a high-level international event to ensure a dialogue on contemporary topics of foreign and security politics. The goal of the International Security Forum is to ensure a debate between experts and practitioners, to identify vital aspects of a successful European foreign and security policy, and develop holistic strategical solutions for pressing challenges.

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