11. Crisis Prevention and Stabilization Made in Germany: Meeting the Demands of Modern Diplomacy?

For a range of policy fields from climate to health internationalize, the tasks of anticipating, preventing, and managing crises of global governance and state authority remain the core business of diplomacy. Looking at reforms of the German Federal Foreign Office since 2014 through a relational lens, this chapter discusses how diplomatic institutions adapt to the challenge of governing a global system and manage crises of state authority and governance with modern tools of crisis diplomacy, and the challenges they face in the process. Original research of how data-driven and scenario-based foresight methods are applied in diplomatic services shows that the integration of traditional modes of doing diplomacy with modern ways of evidence-based, structured analytical and managerial tasks remains a challenge.