Foreign & Security Policy

Whether hard power projection or diplomacy, Europe’s role on the world stage might already have evaporated. This article analyses three aspects of a dwindling Europe in the global security realm.

Is there still hope to reach "Global Zero" - a world without nuclear weapons? This German podcast episode explores the status quo and the possibilities for global nuclear disarmament.

Remy Zahiga, a young Congolese climate and social justice activist, explores the history of the uranium used for the production of nuclear weapons that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. He also analyses the ramifications for people living nearby Shinkolobwe mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Benetick Kabua Maddison explains the history of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. Connecting it with the colonial legacy, climate change and the Marshallese pathway of seeking compensation from the US Government.

Nuclear weapons have catastrophic long-term impacts on human life and our environment. Therefore, we have to listen to those most affected by the production, testing, and use of nuclear weapons.

There is a significant number of bilateral and multilateral treaties in the field of arms control, disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation. A short description of the most relevant treaties can be found here.

Intense political discussions have repeatedly taken place around Nuclear Sharing. The website "Nuclear Sharing" is a one-stop resource for technical, historical, legal, and political information. A common project between the IFSH and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

This web dossier from our Tbilissi office examines how feminist foreign policy can be applied in practice in the context of the South Caucasus.

Russia’s large-scale war against Ukraine does also reflect how China and Russia are interlinked with each other to challenge the current global order. The Black Sea region has become a key area where the new European security order will be negotiated.

The Heinrich Böll Stiftung’s Foreign Policy Conference in February gave a snapshot of the German Green Party’s foreign policy priorities vis-à-vis Ukraine and Eastern Europe.