Dr. Timo Noetzel
Vita
2008-2011 Director of the Research Group „Conflict Generators“, Center of Excellence, University of Konstanz.
2006-2008 Transatlantic Postdoc Fellow for International Relations and Security, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin and Chatham House, London.
2005 Graduate of the Security Policy Seminar at the Federal College for Security Studies (BAKS), Berlin
2002-2006 D.Phil in Politics, St Antony’s College, Oxford University.
2000-2002 M.Phil in Politics, St Antony’s College, Oxford University.
1998-2000 BA (Hons) in European Politics, Queen’s University of Belfast.
1997-1998 Student at the University of Konstanz.
Research Concentrations
Foreign and Security Policy of Western Democracies, Transatlantic Security Policy, German Defence and Security Policy, Security Cultures, The Future of NATO, Modern Protectorates, Conflict in Afghanistan, Transformation of the Bundeswehr
Funktion within the Center
Director of the research group „Conflict Generators“
View research group
First Project
Multi-tier NATO. The Atlantic Alliance in the 21st Century
The book argues that the organization has developed into a fluid 'multi-tier' alliance. On many issues NATO is in fact divided into several different camps that are pushing in different directions. Thus, allies can be grouped into one of three tiers: a 'reformist', a 'status-quo' and a 'neo-traditionalist' one. While the evolution of such a multi-tier alliance will not inevitably result in NATO's demise unmanaged this manifestation of camps will continuously disrupt the organization's strategic agility. The book finds that if NATO is to maintain strategic vitality, it needs to develop new institutional mechanisms and to make 'variable geometry' work.
Second Project
Security Governance
Der Fokus des Forschungsprojektes liegt auf der Überlappung von Entgrenzungsphänomenen im Bereich staatlicher Steuerung im Allgemeinen und der Gewährleistung kollektiver und individueller Sicherheit im Besonderen.
Selected Publications
2011
The Graveyard of the Liberal Moment? Afghanistan and the Future of Liberal Order Building, in: Hans Georg Ehrhart, Sven Bernard Gareis, Charles Pentland (Hrsg.), Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, (mit Tobias Bunde und Adrian Oroz), forthcoming.
The German Politics of War: Kunduz and the War in Afghanistan, in: International Affairs, 87 (März 2011) 2, 397-417.
20 Jahre nach der Vereinigung. Deutsche Außenpolitik in und für Europa, in: Zeitschrift für Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik, (February 2011), vol. 4, no. 1, 89-107, (with Wolfgang Ischinger and Tobias Bunde).
Afghanistan: Towards 2014, MSC conference Booklet paper für die 47. Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz, 4-6. Februar 2011, 62-63. (with Adrian Oroz).
2010
Germany's Small War in Afghanistan: Military Learning Amid Politico-Strategic Inertia. In: Contemporary Security Policy, 31, 3 (2010), 486-508.
Afghanistan als Ende des liberalen Moments? in: Sicherheit und Frieden, 28 (2010) 3, 169-174. (with Tobias Bunde and Adrian Oroz)
Germany’s Small War in Afghanistan: Military Learning amid politico-strategic inertia, in: Contemporary Security Policy, 31 (Dezember 2010) 3, pp. 486-508.
Die Bundeswehr der Zukunft, PolicyBrief of the stiftung neue verantwortung, Berlin, (2010) 2 (with Christoph Grams et. al).
Unavoidable Tensions: The Liberal Path to Global NATO, in: Contemporary Security Policy, 31 (2010) 2, 295-318 (with Tobias Bunde).
Germany, in: Thomas Rid, Thomas Keaney (ed.), Understanding Counterinsurgency Warfare. Doctrine, Operations, Challenges, (Milton Park: Routledge, 2010), 46-58.
Eine neue Strategie für Afghanistan? Deutschlands fehlende Debatte, in: spw – Zeitschrift für Sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft, spw 1/2010, 16-19.
2009
Der Einsatz im Fokus? Das Verteidigungsministerium und die Auslandseinsätze, in: Robert Glawe (ed.): Eine neue deutsche Sicherheitsarchitektur – Impulse für die nationale Strategiedebatte, Berlin 2009, 187-194 (with Martin Zapfe).
NATO’s Vietnam. Afghanistan and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, in: Contemporary Security Policy, 30 (December 2009) 3, 529-547 (with Benjamin Schreer).
NATO and Counterinsurgency: The case of Germany, in: Christopher M. Schnaubelt (ed.): Counterinsurgency: the challenge for NATO strategy and operations, NATO Defense College Forum Paper Series 11, Rom, November 2009, 129-151 (with Martin Zapfe).
Germany’s Options in Afghanistan, in: Survival, 51 (October 2009) 5, S. 71-90 (with Thomas Rid).
Does a multi-tier NATO matter? The Atlantic alliance and the process of strategic change, in: International Affairs, 85 (March 2009) 2, 211–226 (with Benjamin Schreer).
2008
Alliance at Odds, IP Global Edition, Journal of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Vol. 9, Summer 2008, No. 2, pp. 46-50.
Aufstandsbekämpfung als Auftrag. Instrumente und Planungsstrukturen für den ISAF-Einsatz, Studie der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), 2008/S 13, Mai 2008 (with Martin Zapfe).
All the Way? The Evolution of German Military Power, in: International Affairs, 84 (März 2008) 2, 211-221 (with Benjamin Schreer).