http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220413-062125-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/coalitions-activities-strategies/ Coalitions, Activities, Strategies - On the International and Constitutional Law Framework of a National Security Strategy Kleinlein, Thomas eng 2022-03-19 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 informalisation Security Strategy Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Federal Republic’s previous policy of ‘strategic restraint’ has been justified mainly - and rightly - on historical grounds; however, it also has to do with the legal parameters set by international security law and the German constitutional law on military affairs. We should take this legal framework into account when we explore the options for a fundamental reorientation of security and defence policy and a departure from ‘strategic restraint’.