Shaping German Feminist Foreign Policy in Times of Conflict in Ukraine
Year: 2023

Abstract The current conflict in Ukraine has caused European political leaders to question existing European security architecture. In his address to the Bundestag on 27 February 2022, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) referred to this time as a Zeitenwende (historic turning point) for the European continent, leading Germany to reinvent itself as a European security actor. This paradigm shift needs to be contextualized in the framework of an overall reshaping o