Panel Discussion: German-Israeli Security Relations
The
German-Israeli Security Relations - Past, Present, Future
Thursday, September 18, 2008, 7:00 pm
Representation of the Free State of Thuringia in the Federation
Mohrenstraße 64, Berlin
To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the State of Israel, the Bundesverband Sicherheitspolitik an Hochschulen (BSH - German Academic Association for Security Studies) is dedicating its main project to the analysis of the German-Israeli Security Relations.
An international and interdisciplinary group of authors from Israel, Germany and the United States has contributed to the BSH’s fifth anthology in its series “Wissenschaft und Sicherheit” (“Science and Security”). As indicated by its title, the anthology – edited by political scientist Milena Uhlmann, prefaced by Avi Primor and published in September 2008 at the Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag - provides the current state of research with a comprehensive picture of the past, present and future of the German-Israeli Security Relations. In the different contributions, the 18 authors of German, Israeli and American nationality thereby mainly analyze the historic-political background and the strategic context of the security relations between the two countries, as well as the institutions and policy branches relevant for the latter. The anthology for instance both covers the role of the secret services and German-Israeli armaments cooperation projects. Other aspects which are dealt with in the anthology include civilian security, cooperation in justice affairs, bilateral weapons’ trade and Israeli media coverage.
To celebrate the publication of the anthology, the BSH is holding a panel discussion on the German-Israeli security relations. A reception as well as an open discussion and informal exchange with panelists and authors of the anthology will follow.
PROGRAM:
Welcome
N.N., Representation of the Free State of Thuringia
Björn Peter Kilian, Editor of the series Wissenschaft und Sicherheit (Science and Security)
Opening Address
Milena Uhlmann, Editor
Greeting
Reinhold Robbe, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces
Panel Discussion
Karl Mathias Klause, Deputy Head of Desk 213 for the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America, Federal Chancellery
Ilan Mor, Envoy of the State of Israel to Germany
Dr. h.c. Johannes Gerster, President of the German-Israeli Society Brigadier General (ret.)
Ephraim Lapid, Bar-Ilan University Tel Aviv, former Senior Intelligence Officer and spokesman for the IDF
Dr. Yves Pallade, Director Foreign Affairs Network, B’nai B’rith Europe
Moderation:
Alexander Arndt, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA)
Concluding Remarks
Max Bornefeld-Ettmann, Chairman of the German Academic Association for Security Studies (BSH)
To attend, please register per email, fax or post before September 16, 2008 at:
Bundesverband Sicherheitspolitik an Hochschulen (BSH)
c/o Verband der Reservisten der Deutschen Bundeswehr
Dezernat1/ StudResArb
Provinzialstr. 91,
53127 Bonn
Fax:+49-30-41720541
Email: anmeldung[at]sicherheitspolitik.de
