The IIP Advisory Board Chair Dr. Heinz Gärtner spoke to Professor Herbert R. Reginbogin about the International Day of Neutrality and its background. Reginbogin discussed also how neutrality can be engaged and how it contributes to international security. What is the meaning of the International Day of Neutrality and what can one expect in the future?

75 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp we look at the nature of remembrance and the current generation’s obligation towards survivors and memorial sites like Auschwitz. COVID-19 and its implications pose new challenges which need to be addressed if we want to take the words of Henry Appel seriously who said: “There is only one thing worse than Auschwitz itself…and that is if the world forgets there was such a place”.

Historically, Europe has had a positive image of the United States. The US intervened in both world wars, provided the Marshall Plan Aid to Europe after 1945 and took the lead among the Western countries in the confrontation with the Soviet bloc.

Der INF-Vertrag, der 1987 von den Vereinigten Staaten und der Sowjetunion unterzeichnet wurde, sieht die schrittweise Reduktion von atomaren Mittel- und Langstreckenraketen vor. Der Vertragsausstieg der USA im Jahr 2019 ist Teil einer neuen Nuklearpolitik unter Donald Trump, die das Konzept der "maßgeschneiderten Abschreckung“ verfolgt.

he United States’ role in the world has undergone some profound changes lately. Its status of an international leader, the great power in a unipolar world and a global agenda-setter has been increasingly questioned and challenged both domestically and internationally.

With the war in Donbas still far from coming to an end, many uncertainties surrounding the political crisis in Belarus, and Russia’s growing assertiveness in what is becoming an increasingly polarized world, will the three ‘Slavic brothers’ live in peace with themselves and one another again?

In light of the USA presidential and congress elections the IIP is organizing a series with the title “USA and the World” which will be looking at disarmament efforts, transatlantic relations, the USA after the election and the role of geopolitics after the elections. The focus lies on four online events and is rounded up by interviews and written comments on the various aspects in relation with the most important election in 2020. See more under projects/activities: Transatlantic relations as well as under upcoming events.