Dan Krause is Research Associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute for International Politics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany. As Lieutenant Colonel of the Army Reserve, the former Army Aviation officer gives lectures at the Armed Forces Staff College in Hamburg. He has also worked for the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin. His research interests, besides issues related to Responsibility to Protect, include German and European security and defense policy, and international security policy. His PhD project deals with the R2P positions of the Southern Democracies, namely, India, Brazil and South Africa.