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New AICGS Podcasts
In two new AICGS Podcasts, Executive Director Dr. Jackson Janes talks with Dr. Karl Kaiser of Harvard University about U.S.-German relations in the Obama administration, and also speaks with participants from the AICGS/CCAP conference on "Transatlantic Climate and Energy Cooperation: The Way Forward" about the challenges ahead in working together on climate policy.
To access the Podcast with Dr. Kaiser, please click here.
To access the Podcast on climate policy, please click here.
Transatlantic Convergence
In an essay titled "Transatlantic Convergence," Ralf Fücks, a member of the executive board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and a regular participant in AICGS events, argues that the recent trend of transatlantic divergence will be reversed under President-elect Obama, as the new administration's emphasis on working with other nations will heal many wounds. Fücks also writes that the door for transatlantic initiatives is open and that the courage to make changes should not just come from the American side.
To read this essay in German, please click here.
To read this essay in English, please click here.
Transatlantic Relations After the Election
In a speech given at the Goethe Institute in Washington, Coordinator of German-American Cooperation Karsten D. Voigt discusses transatlantic cooperation after the U.S. elections, stressing that without close cooperation between America and Europe, there will not be progress in tackling the pressing problems of our time.
To read a transcript of the speech, please click here (PDF).
Amerikas neuer globaler Führungsanspruch
Dr. Peter Rudolf, Head of the Americas Research Division at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik and a regular participant in AICGS events, looks ahead to the Obama administration and analyzes what he feels will be the administration's foreign policy strategy. Dr. Rudolf looks at a wide range of topics to be addressed under Obama, from an emphasis on multilateralism to the possibility of a nuclear weapon-free world. This essay originally appeared in the November 2008 edition of SWP-Aktuell and is available in German only.
To read this essay, please click here (PDF).
Obama and a New Transatlantic Age
In an essay titled "Obama and a New Transatlantic Age: Implications for the Renewal of Transatlantic Relations," Prof. Dr. Ludger Kühnhardt, Director at the Center for European Integration Studies at Universität Bonn and a regular contributor to the Advisor, writes about the hope for a renewal of transatlantic relations under President-elect Obama and how the U.S. and the EU need to turn ideas for solving world problems into international structures.
To read this essay, please click here.
Europa benötigt eine Energie-Aussenpolitik
Dr. Jörg Himmelreich, Senior Transatlantic Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States and a contributor to AICGS projects on Russia, writes about the shortcomings of European energy foreign policy and makes proposals for improvement, discussing the role of Russia. This article originally appeared in the November 11, 2008, edition of Neue Zürcher Zeitung and is available in German only.
To read this article, please click here.
A New Map for American-German Relations
With the election having been decided, President-Elect Obama will now have to turn to the set of challenges he will face beginning in January.
In a public memorandum to the next president, AICGS has focused on the primary issues driving the American-German dialogue and debate. We have identified the opportunities and pitfalls which lie ahead for Berlin and Washington. The memo results from an extensive series of conferences, discussions, and debates which the Institute has sponsored over the last twelve months.
To access the memorandum, please click here (PDF).
New DAAD/AICGS Fellow: Dr. Christopher Allen
AICGS would like to welcome its newest DAAD/AICGS Fellow, Dr. Christopher S. Allen, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. Dr. Allen will be at AICGS in November and December and will be working on a project entitled: "Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: Germany, Europe, and Twenty-first Century Economic Policy Models," part of a larger book manuscript in progress.
For a short biography of Dr. Allen, please click here.
Event Summary: Quo Vadis CSU?
On Wednesday, October 29, 2008, AICGS and the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation hosted a luncheon event titled "Quo Vadis CSU, Bavaria, and Germany?" in Washington, DC. Andreas Gruber, member of the CSU Young Union and lecturer at the University of Bamberg, discussed the current status of the Christian Social Union (CSU), focusing on the recent Bavarian election results and their potential impact on the federal election in 2009.
For a summary of this event, please click here.
For past issues of the AICGS Advisor, please check the Advisor Archive.