Heiko Meiertöns

Prof. Dr. Heiko Meiertöns, M.Litt, is Professor of Public Law, specialized in Security Law, at the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences, Department of Intelligence Services, Berlin.

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The ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine

Heiko Meiertöns

On 2 December 2025, the White House published the National Security Strategy 2025. It contains the explicit invocation of a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine. The US attack on Venezuela...

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Moving Beyond “Berlin Plus”

Heiko Meiertöns

As Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in 2022, Europe was reminded that peace on this continent could no longer be taken for granted. Russian production figures for main battle tanks...

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Seabed Warfare

Heiko Meiertöns

Countless submarine cables are the communicative backbone of a globalized world of states. Today they form a “new front line”. The same can be said of other elements of critical...