Areas of Expertise

  • Security and defense policy
  • NATO
  • Transatlantic security and defense relations
  • Security and defense policy of Germany and the United States

Short Bio

Dr. Aylin Matlé has been a research fellow in DGAP’s Center for Security and Defense since March 2022.

Previously, she worked as deputy head of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s Israel office in Jerusalem. Prior to that, she was a research associate for the chair of international relations and European politics at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

Matlé studied political science at Zeppelin University (ZU) in Friedrichshafen and “war studies” at King’s College London. She earned her PhD from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg with a dissertation on the impact of US engagement on NATO and the defense policies of European allies during Barack Obama’s presidency.

Languages

English, German

 

[Last updated: January 2023]

Contributions

DOCUMENT DATE:  26 January, 2023  German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius visits soldiers of German armed forces Bundeswehr with the 2nd Company of the Logistics Battalion 171 during firing practice, at armoured infantry training area in Altengrabow, Germany January 26, 2023.

Making Germany’s Military Fit for Purpose

If Germany’s Zeitenwende is to be a success, it is not only its security institutions that need to be reviewed. The processes that have been in place up to now also need to be scrutinized.

Aylin Matlé
IPQ
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain June 30, 2022.

A New Strategy for NATO and Germany

The Madrid summit has delivered, now it’s up to Berlin: What NATO’s new key document means for Germany’s first comprehensive National Security Strategy. 

Aylin Matlé
IPQ

Aylin Matlé

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