In this AICGS Transatlantic Perspectives essay, Senior Non-Resident Fellow Dr. Gunther Hellmann, Professor of Political Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, examines how Germany’s drive for equal status influenced its foreign policy over the past sixty years. Dr. Hellmann suggests that Germany has ‘grown up’ in its foreign policy practice, even if it continues to intensify the practice of limited solidarity with its allies.

Senior Non-Resident Fellow Dr. Wade Jacoby, Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, writes that something seems to have gone wrong with German federalism, and that exactly what went wrong is the subject of a lot of head scratching. As recent reform efforts have been watered-down and have had far-reaching unintended consequences, Dr. Jacoby argues, it is unclear how federalism will continue to evolve in Germany.