Constanze Stelzenmüller, joins Future of Diplomacy Project Faculty Director, R. Nicholas Burns, for a discussion on the volatile security situation in Ukraine and its significance for the European security architecture in a breakfast seminar at the Center for Public Leadership.
Stelzenmüller is a 1988 MPA2 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and a former McCloy Fellow. She is an expert on German, European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy, is the inaugural Robert Bosch senior fellow with the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings. Prior to working at Brookings, she was a senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), where she directed the influential Transatlantic Trends survey program. Her areas of expertise include: transatlantic relations; German foreign policy; NATO; the European Union’s foreign, security and defense policy; international law; and human rights.
Stelzenmüller is the former director of GMF’s Berlin office. From 1994 to 2005, she was an editor for the political section of the German weekly DIE ZEIT, where she had also served as defense and international security editor and covered human rights issues and humanitarian crises. From 1988 to1989, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. She has also been a GMF campus fellow at Grinnell College in Iowa, a Woodrow Wilson Center public policy scholar in Washington, D.C. and a member of the Remarque Forum—a conference series of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
Stelzenmüller’s essays and articles, in both German and English, have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Financial Times, the International New York Times and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Her dissertation, "Direkte Demokratie in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika," was published in 1994 by Nomos. She is also a frequent commentator on American and European radio and television, including Presseclub (ARD), National Public Radio and the BBC.
Stelzenmüller is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation and a fellow of the Royal Swedish Society for War Sciences. She has worked in Germany and the United States, and speaks English, French, German and Spanish.
