Dr. Henning Riecke

Head of European Foreign and Security Policy Program

Areas of Specialization:

• European and transatlantic security issues
• Security Organizations
• German foreign and defense policy
• Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, arms control

Foreign Languages: English, French
phone: +49 (0)30 25 42 31-35
riecke@dgap.org

Henning Riecke joined the DGAP in 2000. In the program, he is in charge of organizing three of the Council’s regular study groups on “Strategic Issues”, “Policy on Europe” and, together with Katharina Gnath, “Future Global Questions”. He coordinates periodic conferences, such as the Dutch-German Roundtable or the Trilateral with French and British experts until 2004. He has also led the organizing team of larger ad-hoc conferences, most recently a four-part conference on NATO’s future in May 2005, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Germany’s membership in the alliance. Riecke participated in expert groups and task forces organized by the Ministry of Defence, the European Space Agency, the Social Democratic Party and several private sponsors. Riecke teaches at the Free University of Berlin.

Before joining the research institute in November 2000, he was Thyssen Post-Doc Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, with a project on US small arms and light weapons policy. Between 1994 and 1999, he held several positions at the Center for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy Studies, Free University of Berlin. In 1995, he spent five months as Visiting Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Riecke holds a Political Science Doctorate, for which he wrote on the Clinton administration’s nuclear non-proliferation policy, and a Diploma from the Free University of Berlin. He studied political science, with history and national economy as minors, in Frankfurt/Main and political science with a focus on international relations Berlin.

Riecke has published a number of articles on European security policy, especially on developments in NATO and EU, on WMD proliferation and force transformation. He co-edited a volume with Helga Haftendorn on the Allies’ special rights and West-German foreign policy in 1996.

• DGAP
• Research Institute
  • Staff
  • Expertise
  • Europe and Transatlantic Relations Program Group
  • Global Challenges Program Group
  • Strategic Regions Program Group
  • Study Groups, Discussion Groups and Task Forces
  • Guest Research Fellow
• Internationale Politik
• Library and Documentation Center
• Publications