In recent years, NATO has become more of a focus again due to many international conflicts. But do you actually know anything about the North Atlantic Treaty? Two experts test your knowledge.
“Ten questions, one expert – the science quiz” is a quiz format from the Leibniz Association and t-online.
The Leibniz Association is an association of 97 research institutions with around 11,500 scientists. Find out more about NATO from Caroline Fehl and Matthias Dembinski.
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The experts introduce themselves
Dr. Caroline Fehl is a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and teaches at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford with a thesis on transatlantic conflicts via multilateral institutions. Her current research focuses on norms and institutions in international security policy, including NATO and nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament.
Dr. A.S. Matthias Dembinski is a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research – Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. He received his doctorate at the Goethe University in Frankfurt with a thesis on nuclear arms control. His research focuses on institutional aspects of European security as well as justice and the collapse of international orders. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on the question of the extent to which strategies for dealing with Russia today can be derived from the experiences of the Cold War.
For t-online, Dr. Miss and Dr. Dembinski has three exciting questions
What is the biggest scientific challenge for you at the moment?
Dr. Error: For me, one of the central challenges in peace and conflict research is to understand how, even under conditions of intensifying great power competition, we can address the multiple and overlapping crises and threats that affect all of humanity – from climate change to the risk of one nuclear war.
Dr. Dembinski: For me, one of the central challenges in peace and conflict research is to understand why international orders fall into crisis and collapse, how the withdrawal of states from international agreements can be organized in a non-violent and civilized manner and, at least under the conditions of normative heterogeneity a minimum level of institutionalized cooperation can be reorganized.
What do you consider to be the greatest scientific invention?
Dr. Error: As a native of Mainz, I of course have to mention letterpress printing. Even if Biontech’s inventions are currently bringing in significantly more money for the city.
Dr. Dembinski: As a train fan and someone who considers flying (in the tourist class accessible to me) to be the most degrading and already environmentally harmful form of travel, the good old steam engine. She put the train on the rails.
What does research mean to you personally?
Dr. Error: Being able to leave my workplace (almost) every evening wiser than when I entered it in the morning.
Dr. Dembinski: The freedom to work professionally on the questions that interest me most as a person.
