The security policy situation for Europe and Germany is - to put it mildly - an enormous challenge, not only in the field of foreign policy, but also internally. Whether it is still justifiable today to base national defense on voluntary service is controversial. But what exactly a renewal of compulsory military service in Germany should look like is equally controversial. In the latest episode of the “Hypothesis” series, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie, holder of the Kissinger Professorship and Director of the Center for Advanced Security at the University of Bonn, argues for universal conscription for all genders and for an end to voluntary service
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie in the Hypothesis podcast on the current conscription debate Ulrich Schlie in the Hypothesis podcast on the current conscription debate
In the latest episode of the “Hypothesis” podcast series, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie argues for a renewal of compulsory military service and a social debate about serving in the military.
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Prof. Ulrich Schlie is a historian, political scientist and, since 2020, Director of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) and Henry Kissinger Professor for Security and Strategy Research at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bonn. He currently holds a Joint Research Professorship at the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.