Dr. Jackson Janes - Executive Director

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Jackson Janes is the Executive Director of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., where he has been affiliated since 1989.

Dr. Janes has been engaged in German-American relations for over four decades. He has studied and taught in German universities in Freiburg, Giessen and Tübingen. He was the Director of the German-American Institute in Tübingen (1977-1980) and then directed the European office of The German Marshall Fund of the United States in Bonn (1980-1985). Before joining AICGS, he served as Director of Program Development at the University Center for International Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh (1986-1988). He was also Chair of the German Speaking Areas in Europe Program at the Foreign Service Institute in Washington D.C. from 1999-2000.

Dr. Janes is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Atlantic Council of the United States. He serves on the advisory boards of the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee, the Allied Museum in Berlin, the World Security Network, Beirat der Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (ZfAS), the Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association, and the American Bundestag Intern Network (ABIN) in Washington, D.C. He is also President of the International Association for the Study of German Politics.

Dr. Janes has lectured throughout Germany and the United States and has published articles and op-ed pieces on topics dealing with Germany, German-American relations, and transatlantic affairs. In addition to regular commentary given to European and American news radio, he has appeared on CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, CBC, and is a frequent commentator on German television. Dr. Janes is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Education.

In 2005, Dr. Janes was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Germany's highest civilian award.

Education:
Ph.D., International Relations, Claremont Graduate School,
  Claremont, California
M.A., Divinity School, University of Chicago
B.A., Sociology, Colgate University

Expertise:
Transatlantic relations, German-American relations, domestic German politics, German-EU relations

Selected Outside Publications:
Books:
"Reforming Governance - Lessons from the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany," Edited with Franz Greß, (Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2001).

"Ukraine, Europe and the United States - Towards a New Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture," Edited with Oleg Kokoshinsky and Peter Wittschorek, Center for European Integration Studies (Schriften des Zentrums für Europäische Integrationsforschung), (Baden-Baden: Namos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000).

"Priming the Pump: The Making of Foreign Area Experts," IIE Research Report Number 23, (New York: Institute for International Education, 1991).

Recent selected Articles:
"Angela Merkel's Germany," By Jackson Janes and Stephen Szabo, Current History, March 2007.

"A U.S.-German Agenda for Bush II," By Jackson Janes and Eberhard Sandschneider. Transatlantic Internationale Politik, Issue 4, 2004, 3-9.

"From Alliances to Ambivalence: The Search for a Transatlantic Agenda in the 21st Century." UC Berkley Institute for European Studies. November 2003. Working paper.

"Making Money by Doing Good." By Jackson Janes and Tim Stuchtey. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte. 31/2008.

"The Evolution of Public Opinion Research and its Significance for the German-American Dialogue," Politbarometer, edited by Andreas M. Wüst, Leske + Budrich, 2003, 319-325.