Stategic Influence Handbook 2016

74 75 THALES GROUP INTERNAL THALES GROUP INTERNAL STRATEGIC INFLUENCE HANDBOOK - EUROPE DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations) 17-18 Rauchstraße, D-10787 Berlin GERMANY Phone: +49 (0)30 25 42 31-0 E-mail: info@dgap.org https://dgap.org Founded in 1955 by the German bankers Josef ABS HERMANN and Robert PFERDMENGES, the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) is a foreign policy think tank. As an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit membership organization, think tank, and publisher the DGAP has been promoting public debate on foreign policy in Germany for 60 years. It is considered as Germany’s national foreign policy network. More than 2,500 members are active in the DGAP. VIP members • GENSCHER Hans-Dietrich: Former Minister of Interior, Foreign Minister, and Vice-chancellor of Germany • VON WEIZSÄCKER Richard: Former President of Germany and Governor of West Berlin Board: • President: Dr. Thomas ENDERS. Former chief executive of Airbus • Treasurer: Georg GRAF WALDERSEE • Director: Dr. Daniela SCHWARZER • Research programs and topics • Security, Defense and Armaments • USA/Transatlantic Relations • Europe and Franco-German relations: French and domestic European policy, Franco-German bilateralism • International Security Policy • Energy Policy: EU’s Climate Change and Energy Package • Globalization and World Economy • The Middle East and North Africa • Asia Program • Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia • DGAP Library: one of the oldest and most important German public libraries for foreign policy and international relations. It contains more than 200 national and international journals, over 85,000 books, and numerous electronic publications. • The BERLIN POLICY JOURNAL is a bimonthly digital magazine on international affairs, edited in Ger- many’s capital and published by the DGAP. (Last: “The long Shadow”, September/October 2019) Last publications: • « The Changing Security Environment in Space Demands New Diplomatic and Military Answers”, by Torben Schütz, July 2019 • “How to Account for Innovation and Diversity in European Armed Forces”, by Torben Schütz, 2019 Comments Governance FOREIGN POLICY, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS, SECURITY The DGAP’s goals are: • to promote and contribute to foreign policy debate in Germany, • to advise decision makers from politics, business, and civil society • to inform the public on foreign policy issues • to strengthen the German foreign policy community • to advance Germany’s foreign affairs status in the world Missions Structure & Activités Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus V.Makei visits the Federal Republic of Germany INDEX Thales Ranking 29 th GGTTI Ranking 19 th inWestern Europe