Dr. Jackson Janes - Executive Director

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Dr. Jackson Janes is the Executive Director of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. He has been engaged in German-American and European affairs for more than three decades. Beginning with his studies in Germany in 1967-1968 at the university in Freiburg, Dr. Janes went on to teach American Studies at the University in Giessen (1971-1974). He became Director of the German-American Institute in Tübingen in 1977 where he served until the summer of 1980. He then was appointed Director of the European Office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a position in which he served in Bonn until 1985. Returning to Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1985, Dr. Janes was invited to carry out a nation-wide survey on the status of German Studies in American colleges and universities. The results of that study were published by the German Marshall Fund in 1986 under the title Mixed Messages: The Study of Contemporary Germany in the United States.

In 1986, Dr. Janes became Director of Program Development at the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. In that capacity, he carried out a second nation-wide survey for the Institute for International Education. The study examined the recruitment of students into area studies programs in American higher education and was published in 1992 under the title Priming the Pump: The Making of Foreign Area Experts.

In 1989, Dr. Janes returned to Washington to join the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, where he served as Deputy Director until his appointment as Executive Director in 1994.

Dr. Janes is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and also a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Bundestag Intern Network (ABIN) in Washington D.C. and on the Advisory Board of the Allied Museum in Berlin. 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 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 German and American news radio, he has appeared on CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, CBC and has been a frequent commentator on German television. Dr. Janes was selected for inclusion 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

Languages:
German

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

Edited with Oleg Kokoshinsky and Peter Wittschorek, Ukraine, Europe and the United States - Towards a New Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture, 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 Twenty-Three, (New York: Institute for International Education, 1991).

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

"Washington blick gespannt auf Berlin", Handelsblatt, Issue 208, October 27, 2005

"Germany at a Juncture", The Washington Times, Septmeber 30, 2005

"Eine nützliche Visite", Handelsblatt, Issue 121, June 27, 2005

"Bush möchte Reagans Enkel werden", Deutsche Welle, June 19, 2004

"Ergänzen, nicht blockieren", Der Tagesspiegel, November 26, 2004

With Eberhard Sandschneider "A US-German Agenda for Bush II", Transatlantic Internationale Politik, Issue 4, 2004, 3-9

"Unter Freunden", Die Zeit, Issue 43, October 16, 2003

"Deutschland braucht jetzt eine Strategie", Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 9, 2003

"Transatlantische Brüche? - Partnerschaft in schwieriger Zeit", Akademiegespräche im Landtag, Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, Bayrischer Landtag, 2003

"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.