The interview focuses on the state of the Bundeswehr, particularly in terms of infrastructure and equipment, as well as the steps needed to improve Germany's defense capabilities. Dr. Weber emphasizes the importance of a strategic reorientation in order to meet the requirements within the NATO alliance. The article illustrates how Germany's security policy challenges are also attracting international interest.
Dr. Joachim Weber on the Japanese news program “Hodo 1930”: Focus on the state of the Bundeswehr and German military capability Dr. Joachim Weber on “Hodo 1930”: Focus on the state of the Bundeswehr and German military capability
In the news program Hodo 1930 on the Japanese television station TBS, Dr. Joachim Weber comments on Germany's current security policy challenges.
Dr. Joachim Weber conducts research in the field of strategic foresight with the aim of generating better approaches for practical policy action on the basis of analytical instruments and better linking theory and practice. Before joining CASSIS, he researched geostrategic and security policy-relevant developments in the High North in the ISPK's Arctic project (2017-2019). Dr. Weber is co-founder of the Kavoma (Disaster Risk Reduction and Management) course at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2006 ff.). For more than two decades, he has taught numerous courses on various topics of history, political geography and political science at the universities of Hamburg, Bonn, Zagreb and Akron, OH.
Parallel to his academic work, Dr. Weber has held various positions in the German Federal Civil Service for more than fifteen years, including at the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi).