4 – Mastering the Zeitenwende: Grand Strategy for Liberal Democracies
Show notes
This episode deals with grand strategy and why liberal democracies like Germany now need a new strategic approach. First with Alice Stollmeyer and then with Chris Alexander, we identify internal and extrernal threats to liberal democracies and how to counteract them. But more broadly, we explore how to defend, renew, and spread liberal democracy and how to inspire people to do so. With our guests we draw lessons from the recent past, showing how liberal democracies lost our way, which can help us do better going forward. And, ahead of two high-level events on the topic, we highlight Neo-Idealism as an emerging approach to grand strategy for liberal democracies stemming from responses to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine which have opened the door to a better kind of geopolitics – including for Germany.
Guests:
- Chris Alexander, Former Canadian Ambassador and Minister for Immigration (@calxandr)
- Alice Stollmeyer, Founder & Executive Director, Defend Democracy (@StollmeyerEU)
Resources:
- The Rise of the New Idealists, Benjamin Tallis, Byline Supplement
- Confronting Russia, Chris Alexander, Open Canada
- The UN and NATO have failed Ukraine. But it’s not too late for them to step up now, Chris Alexander, The Globe and Mail
- Defend Democracy
- Power40, Politico
- Our brain was not built for this, Alice Stollmeyer, Elm Magazine
- Merkel is turning into Blair, Aaron Gasch Burnett, The Spectator
- Is Canada Ready to Pay a “National Security Premium”?, Aaron Gasch Burnett, Open Canada
- Benjamin Tallis on “neo-idealist” Lipavský – and how Ukraine can save EU, Radio Prague International
This podcast is an original production of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). It was created as part of DGAP's Action Group Zeitenwende.
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