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Dr. Robert Schütte

Policy Fellow

Policy Advisor in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety. Is Policy Fellow of Das Progressive Zentrum. Furthermore, he is founder and director of the German human rights organization Genocide Alert and Senior Research Fellow at University of Cologne's department of international politics and foreign policy. After his studies in Cologne, Paris and Cambridge (M.A.) he completed a Ph.D. with a focus on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts. He worked in Berlin i.a. on questions of international and European relations as well as energy, environmental and resource politics.


Selected Publications

Schütte, R. (2015). Civilian protection in armed conflicts: evolution, challenges, and implementation. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Schütte, R. (2015). Zwischen Nichteinmischung und humanitärer Intervention: Das Prinzip der Schutzverantwortung – und was Bismarck heute wohl dazu denken würde. Rotary Magazin, (3).

Bechtle, H., & Schütte, R. (2014). Erwartet lieber keine Wunder! Berliner Republik, (2).

Bitzegeio, U., Islam, R. D., Schütte, R., & Winterberg, L. (Hrsg.). (2014). Sozial - friedlich - global? Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik heute: Leitperspektiven, Herausforderungen, Lösungswege. Berlin: LIT.

Schütte, R., & Deep Islam, R. (2014). Keine Angst vor internationaler Verantwortung. Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte, (7/8), 58–60.


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Future of Democracy Progressive Majority In the media Our experts analyse: Coalition dispute, political Framing, AfD Sophie Pornschlegel, Johannes Hillje, Robert Schütte and Fedor Ruhose comment on recent political developments in national and international media
15 July 2018 | Fedor Ruhose | Robert Schütte | Sophie Pornschlegel | Johannes Hillje | Serafine Dinkel

Sophie Pornschlegel and Robert Schütte explain what the coalition dispute in Germany means on a national and European level in interviews with the BBC and the Spanish newspaper “La Razón.“ Johannes Hillje discusses political ‘framing’ in three major news outlets, pointing out the dangers of expressions like “transit centres” and “asylum tourism.” And Fedor Ruhose explains how established parties should compete against their right-wing populist contestants in this year’s regional elections in an op-ed in “Frankfurter Rundschau.”




Europe & the World In the media Germany and the US Germany faces Trump with new-found self-confidence
4 February 2017 | Robert Schütte

Expect German-American relations to cool over the coming months as September’s elections draw closer