Naval History and Heritage Command

Dr. Sebastian Bruns heads the Center for Maritime Strategy & Security (CMSS) at the Institute for Security Policy, University of Kiel (ISPK), Germany. He is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security (London, 2016) and father of the Kiel Conference, a maritime security challenges conference on the occasion of Kiel Week. After two successful iterations during which the conference became one of the leading annual forums to discuss maritime security challenges in Europe, 2017 will see a collaboration of ISPK|CMSS and the Center for Naval Analyses (Arlington) to conduct the “Kiel International Seapower Symposium”, also during Kiel Week.