Experts

AGI experts are drawn from a network of former fellows, program participants, trustees, and colleagues. They offer insights into various aspects of the German-American relationship.

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Philip Ackermann

Philip Ackermann, AGSR Fellow

Cornelius Adebahr

Open for Business?

Christopher Allen

Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: Germany, Europe and Twenty-first Century Economic Policy Models

Colleen Anderson

German Space Exploration and International Cooperation

Greg Anderson

Transatlantic Investment Protections: Convergence or Sticking Point for the TTIP?

Sabrina Axster

A Tale of Two Countries: The Privatization of Immigrant Detention in Germany and the United States

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Noah Barkin

AGI Asks: What is Angela Merkel’s Legacy on Engagement with China?

Agnieszka Batko

Securing the National Interests: The United States and Japanese-South Korean Reconciliation

Michael Bayerlein

Spatial Inequality and Populist Voting in Germany and the United States

Alissa Bellotti

Transnational Breast Cancer Advocacy in the United States and Germany

Felix Berenskötter

Felix Berenskötter, Visiting Fellow

Sophia Besch

Rebooting the U.S.-EU Defense Relationship

Tonia Bieber

Building a Bridge over the Atlantic? The Impact of the Bologna Process on German and U.S. Higher Education

Katja Biedenkopf

Playing to One’s Strengths: The Implicit Division of Labor in U.S. and EU Climate Diplomacy

Laura Bieder

Laura Bieder, Visiting Fellow

Raimund Bleischwitz

Reducing Vulnerability: A Transatlantic Approach to Energy Security

Rebecca Boehling

Denazification in Retrospect

Frank Bohn

Frank Bohn, AGSR Fellow

Michael Brenner

Sixty Years After the Founding of the Jewish State: Are German-Israeli Relations Still “Special”?

Wolfgang Bretschneider

Wolfgang Bretschneider, AGSR Fellow

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Kenton Card

Multi-Ethnic Tenant Movements in Los Angeles and Berlin

Beverly Crawford Ames

Lost in Translation: The Meaning of Sanctuary for Immigrants in the U.S. and Germany

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Thomas Dapp

The Digital Society

Vincent Dreher

The Specter of Uncertainty: Policies for Strengthening the Transatlantic Relationship from the Next Generation of Leaders

Justus Dreyling

Finding the Right Balance: International Disputes over Intellectual Property Rights

Jonas J. Driedger

Led From Behind

Arleta Dulkowska

Second Life of Political Leaders: A Case Study of Adolf Hitler

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M. Murat Erdogan

Presidential Elections in Turkey: Erdogan’s “New Turkey” and “New Challenges”

Maximilian Ernst

Double Down on Liberalism: A Transatlantic Response to Chinese Economic Coercion

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Andreas Falke

Looking at Transatlantic Relations from the American-German Situation Room

Romain Faure

Museum Diplomacy at the Crossroads

Michael Fichter

The German Model of Labor Relations at Sixty

Liana Fix

The Foreign Policy Dimension of Germany’s Election Cycle

Naika Foroutan

Comparing Racisms in Post-Migrant Societies

Andreas Freytag

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. Economic Challenges, Embargo Issues and a New Global Economic Order

Thomas Fröhlich

Phasing Out Coal in Germany and Appalachia

Hajo Funke

The Radicalization of the Extreme Right: Charlottesville August 2017 and Chemnitz August 2018

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Frank Gadinger

Finding Security in an Age of Uncertainty: German and American Counterterrorism Policies

Scott Stock Gissendanner

Kommunale Integrationspolitik

Katharina Gnath

President Trump Goes to Europe: Two (Theoretically) Easy and a Tough Question on EU Integration, Trade, and the Euro

Anne Goldmann

Anne Goldmann, Visiting Fellow

Dirk Göpffarth

Financing German Health Care

Josefin Graef

Far-Right Violence and World Community

Lukas Graf

Developing Advanced Work-Based Higher Education: What Germany and the U.S. Can Learn from Each Other

Gerlinde Groitl

A Strained, Yet Indispensable Partnership: German-American Relations in the Age of Donald J. Trump

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Metin Hakverdi

Metin Hakverdi, Distinguished Visitor

Axel Heck

The Afghanistan War: Collective Memory Formation in the United States and Germany

Dorothee Heisenberg

Invisible Redistribution to Weaker Economies? The Case for EU Automatic Stabilizers

Niklas Helwig

Europe Faces Open Doors but Uphill Battles with New Congress

Benjamin Herborth

Germany in Europe – From Vanguard to Laggard and Back Again?

Thomas Hinz

No Place to Stay? Discrimination Patterns in the German and American Rental Housing Markets

Steven Höfner

Discussing Transatlantic Partnership at the American-German Situation Room

Mirko Hohmann

Deutschland 4.0? Germany’s Digital Strategy Over the Next Four Years

Benjamin Höhne

Underestimated Threat to Pluralist Democracy

Amy Holmes

Redeployment Reconsidered: Rumsfeld, Gates, and the U.S. Presence in Germany

Sabine Horlitz

Housing Beyond Profit: A Comparison of U.S. and German Alternative Ownership Models

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Nina Janz

Reconciliation Over the Graves? A German War Cemetery in Russia (or the German-Russian Reconciliation of Sologubovka)

Eva Jobs

Pick Your Fights Wisely: The Value of Transatlantic Intelligence Cooperation

Till Jürgens

Advocating for the Local Level

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Lisa Kastner

Deepening the Transatlantic Dialogue on Financial Regulation

Patrick Keller

Germany and the Spider-Man Doctrine

Nguyen Luong Hai Khoi

Art and Reconciliation: Beyond the Borders

Nicole Koenig

The Zeitenwende: Germany’s Reluctant Revolution

Galina Kolev

Protectionism Is the Wrong Medicine

Anna Körs

Local Governance of Religious Diversity in Hamburg and Washington, DC

Tilman Krueger

U.S. and EU Trade Relations with China: Increasingly Similar, and Increasingly Conflictual?

Isabelle Kürschner

Choose to Challenge

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Kai-Olaf Lang

Toward a Transatlantic Eastern Policy? The U.S., the EU, and the “In-Between States”

Julia Lange

Still a Berliner?

Klaus Larres

Misperceptions and Distortions

Ines Läufer

Challenges for the German Healthcare System in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Hubert Leber

Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, His Policy toward Israel, and the German Responsibility for the Jewish People*

Martin Leiner

Black Lives Matter

Leon Lieblang

Where Do They Stand on Climate? Comparing German Party Programs

Ronald H. Linden

The Open Door Swings Back: The Challenge of Chinese Investment

Kathrin Loer

Experts all around us?

Sascha Lohmann

Sascha Lohmann, AGSR Fellow

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Kerstin Martens

American Education Reform Process in Isolation

Aylin Matlé

Self-Assurance—To What End?

Karsten Mause

What Do Citizens in Europe and the United States Think About Fiscal Austerity?

Thomas Mehlhausen

Which Carrots and Which Sticks? Searching for a Strategy to Deal with Russia in the Ukraine Crisis

Franz-Josef Meiers

Crossing the Red Lines? The Grand Coalition and the Paradox of German Foreign Policy

Georg Menz

Center-Right Parties and Immigration: Contours of a Conundrum

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Inoculating Against the Other Virus

Seiko Mimaki

Toward Historical Reconciliation in East Asia: Emergence and Expansion of Transnational Networks

Marcus Müller

The Fog of Drone War: Lessons from the U.S. and European Armed Drone Policy

Wolfgang Muno

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The French Presidential Elections and Europe

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Pia Niedermeier

German Policy on Libya: Right on Substance, Short on Style

Lina Nikou

Receiving Reconciliation? Invitations from German Cities to Jewish Refugees of National Socialism in the United States

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Thomas O'Donnell

Nord Stream 2: Berlin-Washington Mutual Intransigence Shows Transatlantic Divide on Russia

William O’Connell

Translating Politics into Technocracy in the European Banking Union

Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik

Can Germany Reconcile the Western Balkans?

Kai Oppermann

Fresh Start or False Dawn?

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Elise Pape

Human remains of Ovaherero and Nama: Transnational dynamics in post-genocidal restitutions

Girma Parris

A Comparative Historical Analysis of Policy Trajectories in U.S. Bilingual Education and Islamic Religious Instruction in Germany (1965-2010): The Varying Influences of Anti-Immigrant Populism

Christian Patz

Understanding the U.S. from the American-German Situation Room

Christopher Pavenstädt

Christopher Pavenstädt, AGI Visiting Fellow

Andreas Pinkwart

The New Role of Universities in the Twenty-first Century: Universities as Engines of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Hubs

Ivo Plšek

Compare or Not to Compare? Or How to Compare? The Problems in Contemporary German-Japanese Memory Discourse

Svenja Post

Towards Closing the Cyber Sanitation Gap

Justin J.W. Powell

“Made in Germany” – Produced in America? How Dual Vocational Training Programs Can Help Close the Skills Gap in the United States

Jana Puglierin

AGI Asks: What is Angela Merkel’s Foreign Policy Legacy?

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Daniel Rasch

Climate Policies in Germany and the United States

Volker Rein

Compatible Degree and Non-degree Postsecondary Education in the U.S.: Crossover Competency Oriented Conceptual Approaches in Credentialing

Alexander Reisenbichler

The Sustainability of Transatlantic Growth

Johannes Rieckmann

Privatization of Security Services: Comparing Approaches to Policing and Prisons across the Atlantic

Alexander Ritzmann

New Strategies of Transnational European-U.S. Right-Wing Extremist Combat Sports Networks

Andrea Rotter

We Have Closed Our Eyes for Too Long

Henriette Rytz

The Rise of Populist Movements in the United States and Europe: Joint Challenge, Joint Answers Needed

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Mariam Salehi

Transitional Justice as a Foreign Policy Issue across the Atlantic: Trends and Counter-trends

Daniela Schiek

The End of Innocence. The 9/11 Generation in Germany and the United States

Maximilan Schiffers

Maximilan Schiffers, NRW Fellow

Merve Schmitz-Vardar

Merve Schmitz-Vardar, Visiting Fellow

Marianne Schneider-Petsinger

AGI Asks: What to Expect from the Biden Administration?

Arne Schröer

European Energy Security: A New Pattern of External Stability and Internal Risks

Leonard Schütte

Seize the Burden

Tobias Schulze-Cleven

The Transatlantic Agenda for Labor Market Reform: Increasing Adaptability Through Continuing Training

Michael Schwan

Who CARES?

Reimund Schwarze

AGI Asks: What is Angela Merkel’s Climate Policy Legacy?

Andreas Seeringer

Political Strategies for a Globalized World

Anna Stahl

A New Age of Transatlantic Alliance?

Guido Steinberg

Syrien-Krieg: “Diplomatische Erfolge nicht in Sicht”

May-Britt U. Stumbaum

Bridging the Ocean: Challenges and Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation on China

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Susanne Thelen

Negative Campaigning in the U.S Midterm Elections: Role Model or Warning for German Campaign Strategies?

Ufuk Topkara

What is Angela Merkel’s Legacy for German Memory Culture?

Jan Treibel

“Eine Stimme über Europa – und ihre innenpolitischen Konsequenzen”

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Kathrin Ulmer

Cyber Policy in Germany and the U.S.: Challenges in an Emerging Policy Field

Charlotte Unger

A Limping Coalition of the Willing

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Sigurt Vitols

Corporate Governance in Flux: Assessing the Recent Round of Reforms in the United States and Germany

Cornelius Vogt

A New Era of Transatlantic Cooperation in Space? How the New Space Economy Is Shaping the State of Affairs and What Could Be Done

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Ines Wagner

Labor and Social Welfare Policies in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hanna Wang

The Role of Fertility and Family Leave Policies in Shaping Fertility and Female Labor Supply: A Comparative Perspective

Florian Wätzel

Understanding the U.S. from the American-German Situation Room

Carsten Weiß

Fracking and the Presidential Election: Drilling for Jobs

Ruth Wittlinger

The Dynamics of Collective Memory and German Foreign Policy Since Unification

Alexander Wochnik

Encouraging German-American Youth Exchange through Film

Alexander Wolf

The Rise of China: Implications for the Transatlantic Relationship

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Annette Zimmer

At the Eve of Convergence? Social Services in the U.S. and Germany