S1 Episode 03: “Germany’s Post-Merkel Foreign Policy”

Kai Oppermann, Professor for International Politics at the Chemnitz University of Technology and an expert on German Foreign Policy and the dynamics of coalition governments joins Dr. Katharina Emschermann, Deputy Director at the Centre for International Security, in dissecting Europe’s “top risk” in 2021 – the German Federal Election and its foreign policy implications. They discuss: • how to lose an election, • whether Germany is still a “civilian power”, • why Germany did not participate in the 2011 intervention in Libya, • and what to expect from a potential coalition between the conservative CDU and the Greens.