On February 14, the German Marshall Fund in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Berlin organized a discussion on “Global Security Principles” as part of the Berlin Young Transatlantic Network (YTN) event series. The YTN network brings together young professionals from diverse professional fields to meet senior experts from both sides of the Atlantic for informal and open discussions and networking across disciplines and nationalities.

The event featured Alexander Lennon, editor-in-chief of CSIS’s flagship journal The Washington Quarterly and senior fellow in the CSIS International Security Program, and Constanze Stelzenmüller, Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the GMF in Berlin, as speakers. Sarah Raine, Transatlantic Fellow in GMF’s Asia program, moderated the discussion.

Alexander Lennon started off with presenting twelve security principles that he believes should be the building blocks for a just, peaceful, and prosperous global security. Particularly, he stressed how important it is to find common goals in this rapidly changing world to define strategies and priorities to promote a sustainable world order characterized by human dignity and justice. The speakers discussed with the young professionals and students the relevant principles regarding globalization, global economic markets and risk management, highlighting possible hitches of global governance and how to deal with new challenges produced by globalization such as financial instability or environmental risks.