The Putin Doctrine: A Danger to Global Security? A lunch discussion with Ruprecht Polenz

The Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University, in cooperation with the American Council on Germany, welcomes Ruprecht Polenz, who is travelling as part of 2014 Dr. Henry A. Kissinger Transatlantic Speaker Series.

Ruprecht Polenz is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party. He has been a member the German Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs since 1994 and its chairman since 2005. He was secretary-general of the CDU from April to November 2000.

The focal points of his work are foreign and security policy, with a regional emphasis on the Middle East, in particular Iran, Turkey and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is following the political effects of Islam both in this region and beyond with particular interest.