Teachers as “Civil Ambassadors” for German-American Dialogue and Understanding
Public debate about the transatlantic partnership on the civil society level and programs to foster international understanding often focus on the potential of the younger generations. In the present situation, …
Encouraging Civil Society in the Transatlantic Space
Society, Culture & Politics Recommendations The recommendations presented here build on discussions held in 2017-2018 as part of the AICGS project “A German-American Dialogue of the Next Generation: Global Responsibility, …
Yesterday’s Hiding Places are Tomorrow’s Stages: Reconciliation, community building, and transatlantic relations
Civil society in Germany and the United States largely enjoys freedom to act and to shape society. In so doing, people of both countries belong to the just 2 percent …
The Dangers of Division: The Importance of Transatlantic Cooperation in a Changing Political Climate
Policy Report 67 AICGS is pleased to present the written results of the second year of its project “A German-American Dialogue of the Next Generation: Global Responsibility, Joint Engagement.” The …
Hanna Wang, DAAD/AICGS Research Fellow
AICGS is pleased to welcome Hanna Wang as a DAAD/AICGS Research Fellow for June and July 2018. Ms. Wang is currently a doctoral student in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. …
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Back to Basics: Call for a Transatlantic Discussion on the Value of Migration and Democracy
Transatlantic estrangement has been going on for a while. And while it hurts Atlanticists, there is no point in trying and to “repair” U.S.-German relations for the sake of it. …
The Effects of Populism on the Transatlantic Alliance – from Friend to Business Partner
On the issue of countering populist parties and regaining votes from those who defected to extreme candidates in the 2016 U.S. elections and 2017 German elections, there is a silver …
Jörn Quitzau, AGSR Fellow
AICGS is pleased to welcome Jörn Quitzau as an AICGS/GMF Fellow with the American-German Situation Room in Washington, DC, in April 2018. Joern Quitzau (PhD, University of Hamburg) is a Senior …
The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: German vs. American Responses
Anti-Semitism in Germany Germany has a rocky history with anti-Semitism—to say the least. After WWII, reconciliation with Jewish populations became a large part of Germany’s foreign and domestic policy, and …
Civil Society Can Lead the Way
Germans and Americans have a great many important common values and common interests, yet their respective national narratives—how they define their history and place in the world today—differ considerably. Despite …
‘Real American’ immigrants fight to preserve the best of the U.S.
In 1975, the Communist Pathet Lao emerged victorious in a civil war that lasted over 20 years. More than 300,000 Laotians fled to neighboring Thailand, where they lived in refugee …
NextGen Rising
The White Rose, the German Nazi resistance movement founded by Munich university students in 1942, started to trend on Twitter in February 2018 as Germans marked the 75th anniversary of …
