AICGS Advisor - July 20, 2007

Analysis

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In this week's At Issue, Executive Director Dr. Jackson Janes discusses Chancellor Angela Merkel's pragmatic operating strategy and why it might just help her achieve a second term in office.
To read this essay, please click here.

On Tuesday, July 10, AICGS hosted a conference on "German Security Policy: Assessing the 2006 White Paper on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr." Made possible by a grant from the National Intelligence Council and the German Ministry of Defense, German and American leaders in the field of security and defense policy convened to discuss the White Paper and its implications for Germany's role in global military and peacekeeping affairs.
To read Parliamentary State Secretary Christian Schmidt's prepared remarks, please click here (PDF).
For a summary of the event, please click here.
To access the White Paper (German only), please click here.

On July 26, 2007, AICGS will host an event with former DAAD/AICGS Fellow Alexander Ritzmann, Senior Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy, titled "The Myths About Terrorists." Mr. Ritzmann will discuss what really drives terrorists and why U.S. policymakers should learn what it is that propels young men from New York, London, Madrid and Los Angeles to choose to be terrorists.
To RSVP and for more information, please click here.

Dr. Bassam Tibi, a co-author of prior AICGS publications and professor at the University of Göttingen and Cornell University, recently produced two articles that analyze the challenges presented to Europe by Jihadist Islamism and Muslim immigration in Europe. The first paper on Jihadist Islamism first appeared in the March 2007 edition of "Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions," and the second paper first appeared in the winter 2007 edition of The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs.
To read the essay that appeared in TMPR, please click here (PDF).
To read the essay that appeared in the Fletcher Forum, please click here (PDF).

Former DAAD/AICGS Fellow Dr. Sebastian Dullien writes that while Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück has managed to increase spending, cut taxes, and cut the deficit at the same time, there are signs that the government is repeating the mistakes of the red-green government: Dr. Dullien argues that Germany's fiscal policy is turning pro-cyclical once again. This article originally appeared in the July 5 edition of Financial Times Deutschland.
To read this article in German, please click here.
To read a version of this article in English, please click here.

Announcements

AICGS is now accepting nominations for the 2007 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies. This year's prize will be awarded in the field of the Humanities; the winner will be awarded at the Institute's annual Global Leadership Award Dinner on November 15, 2007.
For nomination instructions and more information, please click here.

We are pleased to welcome two new members to the AICGS team, Ms. Ann-Kristin Otto, Assistant to the Executive Director, and Ms. Jennifer Windell, Database Coordinator/ Administrative Assistant.
For a short biography of Ms. Otto, please click here.
For a short biography of Ms. Windell, please click here.

AICGS is now accepting applications for the Spring 2008 session of the DAAD/AICGS Fellowship program. The program is designed to bring scholars and specialists working on Germany, Europe, and/or transatlantic relations to AICGS for research stays of two months each.
For application instructions and more information, please click here.

AICGS is seeking an Associate Director to serve as deputy to the Executive Director with management and oversight responsibilities for the Institute's general operation and staff and in particular for the AICGS Research Program.
For application instructions and more information, please click here.

AICGS is pleased to announce its thirteenth annual Global Leadership Award Dinner, honoring Dr. Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Managing Board and the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank AG, on November 15, 2007, in New York City. Please join us for this special evening in honor of Dr. Ackermann.
For more information about the dinner, please click here.

The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies has issued a request for research proposals on advanced German and European studies. The program offers up to one-year of research support at the Freie Universität Berlin and is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century.
For more information available at the program's website, please click here.

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