In the early 1990s, many people believed that with the end of the Cold War liberal democracies had triumphed over authoritarian regimes. In the early 2020s – some 30 years later – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, concerns over China’s possible invasion of Taiwan, and growing rivalry between China and the United States are stark reminders that we live in a new era of great-power competition – and that the post-Cold War international order cannot be taken for granted. Today, the international order is being redefined in light of the systemic rivalry and strategic competition between Russia, China, and the West.
Join the American Council on Germany and the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation for a discussion about great-power competition with Prof. Dr. Gerlinde Groitl, Associate Professor of International Politics and Transatlantic Relations at the University of Regensburg, and author of “Russia, China and the Revisionist Assault on the Western Liberal International Order” (2023).
Prof. Dr. Gerlinde Groitl serves as Associate Professor of International Politics and Transatlantic Relations at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Her research focuses on U.S., German and European foreign and security policy, transatlantic relations as well as the great-power competition between Russia, China and the West in a changing global order. Her publications includes regular articles on these themes as well as monographs on the American Christian Right’s global human rights activism (2007), on U.S. civil-military relations in post-Cold War military interventions (2015), and her recent book titled “Russia, China and the Revisionist Assault on the Western Liberal International Order” (2023).
Over the past few years her research and teaching activities have taken her to Washington, DC, London, Florence, and Brno. Committed to policy-relevant scholarship and cross-professional exchange, Prof. Dr. Groitl is an alumna of the German-American Manfred-Woerner-Seminar, the BMW and Mercator Foundation’s German-Chinese Zukunftsbrücke program, as well as the “Young Leaders in Security Policy” of the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin.
