Blinking at the Brink: A Munich Moment
The pilgrimage to Munich for the annual Munich Security Conference begins this week with another chance to perform an annual exam of the world’s state of mind and health. The …
Philipp Liesenhoff, AGSR Fellow
AGI is pleased to welcome Philipp Liesenhoff as an AGI/GMF Fellow with the American-German Situation Room in Washington, DC, until June 2018. In Germany, Philipp Liesenhoff works at the German …
From 2C to D.C.: College of Idaho grad moves to Washington, D.C., to work in health policy
Read about AGI’s Transatlantic Exchange Program participant Aliza Auces and her experiences as one of the first Latinas from Idaho to work in health policy in Washington, DC. Via the …
U.S. Trade Policy: Clearing the Brush – or Pulling up Stakes?
The Trump administration has been in office for a little over a year now, and it is becoming clear there are two ways to view its approach to trade policy. …
From the AGI Bookshelf: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire
Most Europeans remain flabbergasted that Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. Millions of Americans are equally confused. Trying to overcome the fixation on tweets is not an easy task—let …
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AGI and the Hanns-Seidel Stiftung Launch the Transatlantic Cybersecurity Partnership
Leading cyber experts from Germany and the United States convened in Munich on January 24 to discuss the most pressing cybersecurity issues for transatlantic cooperation. Participants from the German Federal …
Come on, Germany!
The change of German governments in 1998 marked not only the defeat of Helmut Kohl, who was the longest serving Chancellor in the 20th century, but also the arrival of a …
A Survivor’s Luck: Reflections on Berlin and Shanghai
Harry Katz is lucky.[1] As a man who has had a life-long love of numbers, he knows the odds were stacked against him from the beginning: He was born a Jew …
Looking at Transatlantic Relations from the American-German Situation Room
I spent four weeks from late August to late September 2017 in the American-German Situation Room (AGSR), working to find out what direction the Trump administration’s trade policies would take …
A Stronger German-American Alliance
Political surprises have been a theme in 2016 and 2017, starting with the Brexit referendum, to the election of Donald Trump, to the success of Emmanuel Macron’s new party in …
