Global Dialogue II
In cooperation with the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the National Security College at the Australian National University, Global Dialogue is a format aimed primarily at internationally experienced members of the German parliament. This program brings these German policymakers together with fellow members of parliament (MPs) and other political decision-makers from partner countries in bi- and trilateral formats. The goal of the exchange is to strengthen ties between Germany and key partner countries to build a strategic community of political decision-makers who can address global challenges cooperatively.
The program aims to strengthen ties between Germany and key partner countries to build a strategic community of political decision-makers.
Global Dialogue II (2026−2028) will focus on the Indo-Pacific and relations between Germany, Australia and Japan. The Indo-Pacific is a crucial region for determining the course of the 21st century, not least in terms of dealing with regional and global security competition, as well as the climate crisis. Australia and Japan are key partners for Germany in the region, and there is a lot of potential for expanding these relationships.
Global Dialogue II will start with a kick-off meeting between German MPs in 2026. It will then include two study tours. The first trip in 2026 will bring German MPs to Australia to meet their Australian counterparts and other policymakers and to work on key issues of common concern. In 2027, both German and Australian MPs will travel together to Japan to continue these discussions in a trilateral format with Japanese MPs and policymakers. The program will end with a conference in Berlin in 2028, bringing German MPs together with policy experts to further explore learnings from the study tours and the issues at the heart of the program, including key geopolitical and global challenges, including the Indo-Pacific security architecture.
All meetings convened as part of this program are off record. However, throughout the program, GPPi will publish its own perspective on the issues at the heart of this Global Dialogue, as well as German-Australian-Japanese bilateral/trilateral cooperation.
This project is supported by and run in coordination with the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
