Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
Former Guido Goldman Distinguished ScholarEnglish
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          Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff is a former Guido Goldman Distinguished Scholar at GMF.
      
          
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June 17, 2024
      
                    For the Ukraine Recovery Conference to have a lasting effect, continuity, follow-through and honest accounting are needed. ...
        
      
      
            
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October 13, 2023
      
                    The fate of aid to Ukraine may depend on whether the attacks on Israel and Ukraine are seen as connected....
        
      
      
            
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September 15, 2023
      
                    In our latest Quick Reads series, GMF experts comment on the announcement that Secretary Penny Pritzker was appointed as US Special Representative for...
        
      
      
            
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September 7, 2023
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                                  Ukraine
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                                  Foreign Policy
                                  Transatlantic Relations
                                  Ukraine Reconstruction
                                                    
                      June 26, 2023
      
                    GMF Guido Goldman Distinguished Scholar Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff recaps the Ukraine Recovery Conference, which took place in London between June 21-22....
        
      
      
            
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June 22, 2023
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May 22, 2023
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February 16, 2023
      
                    Anniversaries should be celebratory, but some are painful remembrances of events that elicited profound change. ...
        
      
      
            
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December 12, 2022
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November 9, 2022
      
                    The German Marshall Fund (GMF) is privileged to have had a visionary founder in Guido Goldman....
        
      
      
            
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October 24, 2022
      
                    So this war, too, will end. And when the weapons are silent, a plan for peace is needed, a plan for Ukraine’s survival and economic recovery. In the...
        
      
      
            
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July 1, 2022
      
                    In interviews, Germany’s former chancellor vigorously defends herself against the accusation that she underestimated Vladimir Putin. ...
        
      
      
            
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March 21, 2022
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January 26, 2022
      
                    Last week, as Russia intensified its military buildup along the border with Ukraine, the German Marshall Fund of the United States in cooperation with...
        
      
      
            
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January 14, 2022
      
                    Military strength is the only currency that counts in the Kremlin, says transatlantic policy expert Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff.
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December 3, 2021
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November 27, 2021
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November 18, 2021
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September 15, 2021
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July 26, 2021
      
                    GMF Vice President Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff spoke to Swiss Radio Television to discuss U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to give up his opposition to...
        
      
      
            
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April 30, 2021
      
                    Committed climate policy, billions for infrastructure, extensive social spending, a rejection of racism, and a predictable foreign policy—Joe Biden's...
        
      
      
            
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April 29, 2021
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April 24, 2021
      
                    GMF vice president and director of the Berlin office, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, spoke to ARD’s Weltspiegel Podcast to discuss 100 days of Joe Biden as...
        
      
      
            
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February 15, 2021
      
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January 21, 2021
      
                    GMF Vice-President Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff joined Deutschlandfunk (Dfl) to discuss Joe Biden’s inauguration as U.S. president and the important...
        
      
      
            
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January 21, 2021
      
                    GMF Vice President Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff spoke to German SR2 KulturRadio ahead of the inauguration of the new president....
        
      
      
            
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December 1, 2020
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November 19, 2020
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November 5, 2020
      
                    Difficult relations with the United States are hurting Germany more than other European states. The German government should reconsider its role after...
        
      
      
            
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September 28, 2020
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September 4, 2020
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August 13, 2020
      
                    Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has named Kamala Harris as his running mate—the first black woman in the role....
        
      
      
            
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August 7, 2020
      
                    America is lurching from one crisis to the next. In an interview with Deutschlandfunk, the Director of GMF’s Berlin office Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff...
        
      
      
            
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August 3, 2020
      
                    Three months from now, Americans will not only determine the political course of their home country, but also the fate of the international community....
        
      
      
            
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June 8, 2020
      
                    Lately, Donald Trump was in a rearguard action. Paradoxically, the political crisis following the death of George Floyd could lead to his reelection....
        
      
      
            
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June 4, 2020
      
                    Germany will have to re-think its U.S. policy, even without Trump, writes GMF’s Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff in Der Hauptstadtbrief....
        
      
      
            
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April 7, 2020
      
                    Abstract: For a quarter of a century it was a commonly held view that the world was headed towards a democratic peace. Today, many believe that we are...
        
      
      
            
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March 12, 2020
      
                    Editor's Note: GMF Vice President Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff speaks to RN Breakfast on Europe's reaction to the U.S. coronavirus travel ban....
        
      
      
            
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January 21, 2020
      
                    The regulatory systems of international coexistence are under stress, says Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, vice president of the German Marshall Fund of the...
        
      
      
            
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January 14, 2020
      
                    Germany must resolutely oppose the enemies of democracy, acting defensively and exemplarily instead of offensively and in a missionary way....
        
      
      
            
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November 19, 2019
      
                    Editor's note: In an interview with Laure Mandeville of FigaroVox, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff discusses his new book, "The World Needs the West," which...
        
      
      
            
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October 15, 2019
      
                    The Ukraine scandal gives the Democrats new hope that they could finally drive Donald Trump out of office. But the impeachment process could bring new...
        
      
      
            
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October 8, 2019
      
                    What if it was not the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany, but the massacre on Tiananmen Square in Beijing that was the defining moment? An essay....
        
      
      
            
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October 8, 2019
      
                    Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff: Trump is not only an aberration of U.S....
        
      
      
            
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September 24, 2019
      
                    Editor's Note: Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff spoke to Germany's NTV about his new book, The World Needs the West....
        
      
      
            
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September 23, 2019
      
                    Editor’s Note: This essay by Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff  was published on September 23, 2019 in the weekly national newspaper DIE ZEIT prior the...
        
      
      
            
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September 23, 2019
      
                    The West is not yet lost, the West must not be lost, because the world needs the West. This is the claim Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff makes in his new book...
        
      
      
            
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September 16, 2019
      
                    Sometimes, but rarely, Donald Trump fails with his Twitter tirades. Twitter is therefore a good indicator of his assertiveness. His NATO and Russia...
        
      
      
            
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September 13, 2019
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September 12, 2019
      
                    The Berlin office director of the German Marshall Fund has developed a concept for a tempered liberalism. His book is a successful wake-up call....
        
      
      
            
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July 4, 2019
      
                    Interview with Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, vice president and director of the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States....
        
      
      
            
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May 31, 2019
      
                    The United States is relying on sanctions, most recently against Mexico. Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff of the German Marshall Fund considers these "trade...
        
      
      
            
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February 15, 2019
      
                    Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, vice president of the German Marshall Fund in Berlin, explained to BILD: "Since the Democrats hold the majority in the House...
        
      
      
            
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January 31, 2019
      
                    Editor's note: GMF's Thomas Kleine Brockhoff analyzes the demise of the INF Treaty. ...
        
      
      
            
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January 14, 2019
      
                    Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, vice president of the German Marshall Fund's Berlin office, explained to BILD that the polls would probably leave Trump cold:...
        
      
      
            
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December 18, 2018
      
                    Nobody wants a new nuclear arms race. But there is no way around a European policy of strength against Russia. An Op-Ed....
        
      
      
            
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November 14, 2018
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November 9, 2018
      
                    America has voted but the results of the election are ambivalent. The Democrats gained the majority in the House and thereby the possibility to...
        
      
      
            
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November 7, 2018
      
                    According to GMF Vice President Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, the U.S. president is pursuing his strategy of “mercilessness and directness.” Mr. Kleine...
        
      
      
            
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September 4, 2018
      
                    German foreign minister Heiko Maas’ assumption that U.S. foreign policy had already fundamentally changed before Trump is highly disputed. Maas seeks...
        
      
      
            
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July 13, 2018
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July 11, 2018
      
                    Guaranteeing the safety of its citizens is a core task of the state. Here sovereign action merges with existential care. Caring is not just about...
        
      
      
            
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July 9, 2018
      
                    Not often do changes in political preferences and outlook in a single country trigger a changing world order. The breakdown of the 70-year-old...
        
      
      
            
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June 15, 2018
      
                    In an interview with NRC, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff explains how Trump’s hostile attitude shocks Germany. “I never thought this could ever be possible.”...
        
      
      
            
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June 11, 2018
      
                    Donald Trump caused a debacle at the G7 summit. Foreign Policy Expert Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff responds to the question of whether the West is at its...
        
      
      
            
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May 24, 2018
      
                    President Trump's decision to violate the Iran nuclear agreement and to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem are unlikely to make the world's...
        
      
      
            
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February 2, 2018
      
                    Based on the preliminary coalition agreement, they argue that the Bundeswehr’s level of operational readiness will remain low. The agreement only...
        
      
      
            
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January 15, 2018
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November 20, 2017
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November 6, 2017
      
                    Paul Adamson of Sharp Talk sat down with Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, director of GMF's Europe program, for a podcast titled "Germany's Re-assessment of...
        
      
      
            
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October 16, 2017
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September 26, 2017
      
                    Germany has voted for stabili...
        
      
      
            
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July 18, 2017
      
                    GMF Berlin Office Director Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff joined Maybritt Illner’s German political talk show to discuss “Conflict instead of Solutions –post...
        
      
      
            
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June 10, 2017
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June 7, 2017
      
                    70 years after it was initially announced, the Marshall Plan is in vogue. Everyone wants one – whether for Africa or Greece, for French suburbs, or...
        
      
      
            
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May 28, 2017
      
                    So, what do they say now in order to qualify his every pronouncement? After Donald Trump’s epic dress-down of the leaders of the democratic world, we...
        
      
      
            
           
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
