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Julia Rakers, NRW Fellow

AGI is pleased to welcome Julia Rakers as a NRW Fellow at AGI from October to November 2024. Julia Rakers is a doctoral researcher at the NRW School of Governance, …

Friendshoring: A Sea Change for the Global Economy?

This article originally appeared in German in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The international order is experiencing a once-in-a-generation turning point. The fall of the Berlin Wall thirty-five years ago ended …

U.S. Trade Policy at a Crossroads

If Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump were placed along an axis spanning from protectionism to free trade, would that offer a meaningful way to understand their campaign proposals …

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Transatlantic Cooperation in the Next U.S. Administration

The next U.S. president will be confronted with a plethora of global challenges: war in Europe, a disordered trading system, growing geopolitical competition and a more assertive China, disruptive new …

Seize the Burden

A European Initiative to Put NATO on a Sustainable Footing Shortly after entering office in 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden exclaimed at the (virtual) Munich Security Conference that “America is …

Far-Right Violence and World Community

An Evolving Threat in a Changing World What the life and work of German-American Christian ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) tells us about an old problem in a new context. Far-right …