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Let's hope than that the current crisis will result in the development of a German foreign policy that is less naïve and possesses a clear understanding of military threats and how authoritarian regimes operate

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Is it goodbye to 'pacifist' Germany?

German foreign policy thinking changed dramatically on 24 February 2022, but where is it headed?

For a long time, observers complained about a lack of geo-strategic thinking in the German political class, demonstrated most clearly in its underestimation of the Russian military threat and an ever-growing dependency on energy resources from Putin's militaristic authoritarian regime.

Key decisions of the last decades were based on premises, now revealed to have been naïve at best....

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

Let's hope than that the current crisis will result in the development of a German foreign policy that is less naïve and possesses a clear understanding of military threats and how authoritarian regimes operate

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

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