Veranstaltung: MSC Side Event | A Historian, a Political Strategist and a General Walk into a Drone Assembly Workshop.Getting Serious about Deterrence, Warfare and Multilateralism

The Leibniz-ScienceCampus Europe and America, LSE IDEAS and the Bundeswehr Center of Military History and Social Sciences (ZMSBw, Potsdam) are delighted to be organizing a side event as part of the Munich Security programme at Amerikahaus in Munich. You are warmly invited to a panel discussion on Friday 13 February at 19:30 on the subject of Deterrence, Warfare and Multilateralism. The discussion will be chaired by Cindy Wittke-Hohlfeld (IOS) with Maryna Hrytsenko (Snake Island Institute), Mary Kaldor (LSE), Josef Kranawetvogl (STARK), Jon-Wyatt Matlack (ScienceCampus / LSE), and Alaric Searle (ZMSBw) on the panel.

 

The event is fully booked in Munich but it is being livestreamed on the Leibniz-ScienceCampus YouTube channel @leibniz.europeamerica

 

The side event is hosted by Amerikahaus as part of its Emerging Leaders series of MSC Side Events.

 

Outline | Unmanned systems and drone warfare – most prominently in Russia’s war against Ukraine – are unsettling the post-Cold War security order. In the complex emerging ecology of warfare, deterrence and new technologies, unmanned systems increasingly weaponize and target civilian and military infrastructures: satellites, energy supply, communications networks. Transformative, low-cost drone warfare technologies undermine established defence systems while redefining power and military violence, as well as resilience and preparedness.

 

Prompted by evolving conflicts and emerging technologies, this session reappraises deterrence, multilateralism and the transatlantic order. Senior armed forces figures, policy advisors, academic theorists and defence-tech experts – voices rarely in dialogue – examine: How quickly can NATO adapt to shifting technological and political ecosystems? Are unmanned systems the key to Europe’s security? What visions for new European security arrangements could emerge – with or without the USA? And what lessons from Ukraine can guide strategic planning in an increasingly multipolar world?