Europe and the Emerging New Global Order Rethinking Europe's Security Framework

This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with Europe's future. In a changing global order where Europe's fate must no longer be reliant on the actions of other world powers, the 21 high-profile authors advocate for a proactive step towards building a capable and confident Europe. The book does not shy away from identifying the key challenges - whether in defence, cyber threats, or climate, to name a few. Each chapter, written by one of 21 distinguished authors who are specialists in their respective fields, offers concrete proposals for addressing these issues. Authors: Dr. Alina Bârgăoanu, Professor, Member EDMO Advisory Board; Razvan Ceuca, International Relations Expert at New Strategy Center, Romania; Simona Cojocaru, State Secretary Defence for Romania; Stacy A. Cummings, NSPA General Manager; Dr. Judith Curry, President Climate Forecast Applications Network; Andreas Dripke, Executive Chair Diplomatic Council, CEO euromarcom; Dorin Gal, Policy adviser Romania's Defence Ministry, diplomacy expert; Dr. Christoph Heusgen, Chair Munich Security Conference, Ambassador; Stephan J. Kramer, President of the Thuringian State Intelligence Office Prof. Dr. Heinrich Kreft, President Diplomatic Council, Ambassador (ret.); Dr. Ciro Maddaloni, political Opinionist "Giornale Diplomatico“; Michael Mattis, Founder and CEO Silicon Valley Europe; Hang Nguyen, Secretary General Diplomatic Council; Jamal Qaiser, Peace Activist, Diplomatic Council Commissioner for UN Affairs; Jochen M. Richter, Chair Diplomatic Council Global Security Forum Marc Ruberg, Officer in charge Baden-Württemberg University Network; Prof. Dr. Peter Schallenberg, Prof. Moral Theology and Theological Ethics; Dr. Harald Schönfeld, Founder & CEO butterflymanager and United Interim Andre Schulte-Südhoff, Managing Director and shareholder of Schuko; George Scutaru, Founder and CEO New Strategy Center, Romania; Dr. Horst Walther, CEO SIG, Diplomatic Council Commissioner for UN Affairs.

Dr. Horst Walther completed studies in chemistry, oriental studies, computer science and economics at the University of Hamburg. He holds a doctorate in chemistry. Before founding his own company SiG, he worked for various companies such as Price Waterhouse, KPMG, Hapag Lloyd and Grünenthal. He is member of the Diplomatic Council, where he was appointed commissioner of UN affairs, founder of the corporate culture institute in Vienna, initiator of the international standardisation initiative GenericIAM, which aims at the definition of generic processes for the Identity and Access Management and founding member of the German political party Europeans for the Planet, where he serves as a chairman. He maintains several blogs, authored or co-authored several books dealing with geo-political and societal topics as well as artificial intelligence.

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Kreft, Ambassador (retired) is currently Senior Fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center and Pres-ident of the Diplomatic Council (DC). For the last four years until August 2024 Professor Dr. Kreft M.A., B.A. (USA), held the Chair for Diplomacy and was Program Director “International Relations and European Studies” at Andrássy University Budapest and Director of its Center for Diplomacy. Previously, he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (July 2016-August 2020), Special Ambassador for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue and for International Academic Relations, and Deputy Head of the Policy Planning Staff of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. Other assignments in his 40-year long diplomatic career have taken him to Washington, Tokyo, Madrid and La Paz. From 2006-2010 he was a foreign and Security Policy Advisor to the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the Foreign Relations Committee of the German Bundestag. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center, the Heritage Foundation, the Brookings Institutions, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington, DC. Heinrich Kreft studied political science, modern history and sociology at Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA (USA), at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Institut des Hautes Etudes de L’Amérique Latine of the Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster. He has published extensively on international relations. Most recent publications on China, the broader Middle East, Hungary, Cencral Europe and on the Western Balkans.

As an Executive Member of the Think Tank Diplomatic Council (UN reg.) Jochen M. Richter chairs its Global Security Forum. He holds a degree in public administration. About three months after the fall of the Berlin Wall (February 1990) he joined the European Institutions. For the next 30 years, he worked in both the Commission and the Parliament. In addition to positions in research, competition, internal market and conciliation, he served two Commissioners in their private office. Retired as Director of the European Parliament at the end of 2020. He since has been teaching at universities in Luxembourg and Düsseldorf. Since January 2024 he has a lecture engagement at the Catholic University in Lviv. He is regularly at security conferences such as the Warsaw Security Forum and those of the New Strategy Center.