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Arts
Anselm Kiefer: “Yes to Rearmament, but I Fear a Militarized Germany”
Riccardo Staglianò 11 February 2026

Anselm Kiefer is the artist of ruins. Of memory. Of war. Starting with the one he wages with his gigantic works. “While I paint, my pictures undergo destruction, repair, transmutation. I massacre them, I beat them up… My mind is at war. War is within me,” he confided to Vincenzo Trione in Prologo celeste – Nell’atelier di Anselm Kiefer. But now war is everywhere; from anguished memory, it then became an all-purpose to metaphor and has now returned to being raw news. The rubble, once the backdrop to his German childhood, has become the landscape of Gaza, of Ukrainian neighborhoods, and the destruction seems not to be stopping.
Human Rights
Weapons, Welfare, and the Future of Europe: An Interview with Dan Smith
Danilo De Biasio 13 May 2025

The re-election of US President Donald Trump has played a key role in prompting the launch of the ReArm Europe Plan, an initiative aimed at advancing Europe’s strategic military autonomy. Notably, the plan does not establish a common European defense force. Rather, it sets up a shared fund – worth €800 billion – to support individual EU member states’ military expenditures. To better understand the implications of this shift, Reset DOC spoke with Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and one of the world’s leading experts on armed conflict, defense policy, and disarmament.
Political Theory
Habermas: Europe Must Go Ahead with its Integration
and Self-Defense
Jürgen Habermas 3 April 2025

Clearly there has never been seamless agreement among the leading national politicians of the West – and, more broadly, of the G7 countries – on their political perspectives; but they have always shared a background understanding of their affiliation to “the” West under the leadership of the United States. This political constellation has disintegrated with the most recent return to power of Donald Trump and the systemic change in the United States that this has set in motion, even if, formally speaking, the fate of NATO remains an open question for the time being. From a European perspective, this epochal break has far-reaching consequences – both for the further course and possible end of the war in Ukraine and for the need, willingness and ability of the European Union to find a redemptive response to the new situation. Otherwise, Europe will also be drawn into the maelstrom of the declining superpower.