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Germany’s Number 1 Task: Renew the Global Economic Order

Peter S. Rashish

Vice President; Director, Geoeconomics Program

Peter S. Rashish, who counts over 25 years of experience counseling corporations, think tanks, foundations, and international organizations on transatlantic trade and economic strategy, is Vice President and Director of the Geoeconomics Program at AICGS. He also writes The Wider Atlantic blog.

Mr. Rashish has served as Vice President for Europe and Eurasia at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he spearheaded the Chamber’s advocacy ahead of the launch of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Previously, Mr. Rashish was a Senior Advisor for Europe at McLarty Associates, and has held positions as Executive Vice President of the European Institute, on the Paris-based staff of the International Energy Agency, and as a consultant to the World Bank, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Atlantic Council, the Bertelsmann Foundation, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Mr. Rashish has testified on the euro zone and U.S.-European economic relations before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade and the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia and has advised three U.S. presidential campaigns. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Jean Monnet Institute in Paris and a Senior Advisor to the European Policy Centre in Brussels. His commentaries have been published in The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest, and he has appeared on PBS, CNBC, CNN, and NPR.

He earned a BA from Harvard College and an M.Phil. in international relations from Oxford University. He speaks French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

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prashish@aicgs.org

The most important contribution the new German Federal Government can make is to support and reform the global economic order that has been responsible for 70 years of peace and prosperity. Whether it is through institutions like the World Trade Organization and the European Union, countless bilateral trade agreements, or the informal norms and principles governing international commercial activity, these are all largely transatlantic concepts. However, the individual components of the liberal economic order need to be strengthened and updated to account for new developments impacting Germany’s economic relationships (for example, digital trade). Germany can help to do that in three key ways. Continue reading.

This article was originally published in the July newsletter of the BDI. It is also available in German.

The views expressed are those of the author(s) alone. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the American-German Institute.