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CURRENT NEWS

In this week's At Issue, Executive Director Jackson Janes offers some considerations for George W. Bush critics as John Kerry starts his formal campaign for the Presidency. To read this essay, please go to: /at-issue/ai-jj07292004.aspx

In his essay, "The Perfect Storm and After: Retrospect and Prospect for American-German Relations," Professor Jeffrey Herf, Professor of History at the University of Maryland and frequent participant in AICGS workshops, looks to the past to explain the transatlantic conflict over the Iraq war. To access the essay, please go to: /c/herfc.aspx

Last week, the five-week public drama of negotiations between DaimlerChrysler and organized labor found its resolution in the DaimlerChrysler labor deal. In his essay, "The DaimlerChrysler Deal: Breakthrough or Firebreak?" former AICGS/DaimlerChrysler Fellow Professor Stephen Silvia, American University, examines the deal that was struck and its implications for the players involved as well as for industrial relations in Germany. To read this essay, please go to: /research/modell/silvia.aspx

Continuing with our work on the media and its impact on the transatlantic relationship, AICGS is pleased to present the first of our Issue Brief series, "Clashing Worlds and Images: Media and Politics in the United States and Germany" by AICGS Research Associate Karin L. Johnston. To download the Issue Brief, please go to: /Publications/issuebrpubs.aspx

PAST EVENTS

A better understanding of domestic politics and domestic regulatory regimes in contested policy areas is a prerequisite to avoiding U.S.-European conflicts and removing regulations that pose non-tariff barriers to trade. On July 14, 2004, DAAD/AICGS Fellow Marcus Schaper presented his research on "Harmonizing Environmental Trade Regulations Across the Atlantic" and discussed the challenges of integrating U.S. and European regulations. For a summary of this workshop, please go to: /events/2004/07142004_summary.aspx

ANNOUNCEMENTS

AICGS is pleased to introduce its newest DAAD Summer Fellow, Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss, who will be working on a book that investigates conceptions of citizenship and nationality among German vocational students and their teachers. For a biography, please go to: /fileremoved.aspx

AICGS is offering a variety of paid and unpaid internships for 2004 and 2005. For more information, please go to: /employ.aspx

The Freie Universitaet Berlin and GSA Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies promotes a new generation of young North American scholars with specialized knowledge of modern and contemporary German and European affairs. It offers up to one year of research support at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. The program is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century and accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. The deadline for application is December 1, 2004. For more information or to apply, please go to: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/ or send an email to bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de PLEASE DO NOT APPLY TO AICGS.

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