Social Cohesion in the United States and Germany: Will Protectionism and Income Redistribution Be Helpful?
While the economy is booming, society is drifting apart. Social cohesion is showing cracks and political stability is in many places in danger. Partitioning is again becoming an issue. These …
Keep Calm and Fill In the Gaps
A thoughtful response and an ambitious European agenda are Germany’s best options for the Trump era The world, America, and transatlantic relations have survived the first year of the Trump …
The Transatlantic Trade Drama Enters Act III
The drama over steel and aluminum tariffs is now entering its third act. The plot lines have become clear, and the possible denouements are emerging. But it remains to be …
Merkel can make her second Trump visit a success
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who meets with Donald Trump next Friday, hopes to improve on their inaugural tête-à-tête in March 2017 when the U.S. president appeared to withhold shaking her hand during an Oval Office …
From the AGI Bookshelf: Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order
At a time when there is a ferocious debate over the global role and responsibility of the United States, there is a benefit to looking back on the course of …
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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 …
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. …
Reforming the Eurozone: A Transatlantic Perspective
Over the last decade, the state of the Eurozone has become a serious concern in the transatlantic relationship. At the outset of the European sovereign debt crisis, the United States …
German Economic Leadership in Europe: More Uncertain and More Needed
The instability produced by the failure to form a so-called “Jamaica” coalition in Germany increases the importance of moving from reliance on de facto German leadership of the Eurozone to …
Including Workers’ Voices in the Digital Transformation
With the digital transformation unfolding across the OECD’s wealthy democracies, all eyes are on California. The land of self-driving cars and artificial intelligence, California has captured the imaginations not just …
Germany’s Number 1 Task: Renew the Global Economic Order
The most important contribution the new German Federal Government can make is to support and reform the global economic order that has been responsible for 70 years of peace and …
