Constanze Stelzenmüller Senior Transatlantic Fellow Berlin Office Location: Berlin Expertise: Transatlantic Relations, Transatlantic Security and Defense Issues, NATO, European Union, EU Foreign Policy, European Security and Defense policy, Global Security, German foreign policy, U.S.-German relations, international law, human rights

Before serving as a Senior Transatlantic Fellow for the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller was the director of GMF’s Berlin office since July 1st, 2005. She was formerly defense and international security editor at the German weekly DIE ZEIT, where, from 1998 onward, she covered a broad spectrum of issues, including NATO, European defense and security policy, military intervention in Kosovo and Afghanistan, the war on terror, Iraq, international war crimes tribunals, German foreign policy, and U.S.-German relations. She joined DIE ZEIT in 1994 to write about human rights, refugee crises, and the UN, and covered African conflicts like Rwanda, Congo, and Eritrea-Ethiopia.

Education:
Dr. Stelzenmüller holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn, as well as a Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; she was also a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. She has been a Remarque Fellow at New York University, a GMF Campus Fellow at Grinnell College, and a Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar in Washington, D.C.

Languages:
Besides her native German, she is fluent in English. She also speaks French and Spanish.

Recent Publications by Constanze Stelzenmüller
The Self-Chained Republic
Analyze Das
Germany shoots first and thinks again
Angela Merkel: The World's Most Powerful Woman?
Germany's Russia Question: A New Ostpolitik for Europe