Constanze Stelzenmüller

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Constanze Stelzenmüller (2011)

Constanze Stelzenmüller (* 1962 in Bonn ) is a German lawyer and journalist .

Life

Stelzenmüller studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Geneva from 1979 to 1985 . As a McCloy Fellow , she received a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (1988); she then did research as a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School (1988–89). With a thesis on Direct Democracy in the United States was in 1992 at the University of Bonn to Dr. iur. PhD. After a traineeship (1992–93) at Tagesspiegel , Stelzenmüller became editor of the time in 1994 , where she mainly reported on human rights , refugee dramas and the UN, as well as on African conflicts such as Rwanda , Congo and Eritrea / Ethiopia . From 1998 she wrote about NATO , European defense and security policy, military interventions in Kosovo and Afghanistan , terrorism, Iraq, international war criminals - tribunals , German foreign policy and German-American relations.

From April to June 2004, Stelzenmüller was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. In July 2005, Stelzenmüller took over the management of the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund . From 2009 to 2014 she was a Senior Transatlantic Fellow there and led, among other things, the Transatlantic Trends survey . In 2013 she worked for the German Marshall Fund, together with Markus Kaim , head of the project New Power - New Responsibility of the Science and Politics Foundation .

In June 2014, the Robert Bosch Foundation announced that Stelzenmüller will start researching as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from November 2014 .

As the successor to Theo Sommer , Stelzenmüller was chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Peace Research Foundation from 2007 to 2014 . In addition, from 2009 to 2013 she was honorary chairwoman of the German section of Women in International Security (WIIS.de). Stelzenmüller has been a member of the Royal Swedish Society for War Sciences for life since 2014. She is a member of the Department of Defense's Advisory Board for Internal Leadership and Governor of the Ditchley Foundation.

Her essays and articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs , Internationale Politik , the International Herald Tribune , the Washington Post and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . She has been writing a monthly column in the Financial Times since 2018 . On June 28, 2017, she testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence of the US Senate about Russia's influence on the German elections.

Positions

In a radio interview with Deutschlandfunk on May 20, 2011, she judged Barack Obama's speech to be extremely benevolent because of his comparison of the Arab democracy movement with the American independence movement in the 18th century.

When discussing the poem What must be said by Günter Grass , she said that there has always been an “unpleasant” anti-Zionist tendency on the European left, including the German left. Modern “center left” thinkers would regret that.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constanze Stelzenmüller: Direct Democracy in the United States of America. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3438-X
  2. ↑ Senior Fellows | Robert Bosch Foundation. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ One voice for Germany in America: Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller becomes Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution - press release dated June 17, 2014
  4. ↑ Constanze Stelzenmüller resigns as chairman of the advisory board at DSF. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Women in International Security website. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  6. ^ Royal Swedish Society for War Sciences: Matriculation. In: KUNGL KRIGSVETENSKAPSAKADEMIEN. Retrieved July 23, 2019 (sv-SE).
  7. ^ Bundeswehr: Advisory Board for Inner Leadership. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  8. ^ Ditchley's Governors | Ditchley Foundation. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Constanze Stelzenmüller: Germany's Russia Question . May 31, 2009, ISSN  0015-7120 ( foreignaffairs.com [accessed July 23, 2019]).
  10. ↑ International Politics: Authors: Constanze Stelzenmüller. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  11. ^ The Editors: Opinion | The World on Obama . In: The New York Times . November 7, 2012, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 23, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Financial Times: Article by Constanze Stelzenmüller. Retrieved July 15, 2019 (UK English).
  13. ↑ Constanze Stelzenmüller: The impact of Russian interference on Germany's 2017 elections. In: Brookings. June 28, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2019 (American English).
  14. ^ Appeal to the democracy movement . Political scientist praises Obama's keynote address. In: Deutschlandradio . May 20, 2011.
  15. ^ Luke Harding, Harriet Sherwood: Günter Grass's Israel poem provokes outrage . In: The Guardian . April 5, 2012, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed July 23, 2019]).

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personal data
SURNAME Stelzenmüller, Constanze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn