Germany is Back
Chancellor Merz, Defense Investment, and the NATO Summit Since Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine more than eleven years ago, German leaders have struggled to find a fitting response to the …
Chancellor Merz and Germany’s ‘New Determination’
In a June 24 address to the German parliament, Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered a Regierungserklärung (government declaration) that highlighted a profound shift in Germany’s strategic outlook, characterized by what he …
Sustaining LGBTQ+ Communities in a Fragmenting Landscape
The second cohort of AGI’s project “Building LGBTQ+ Communities in Germany and the United States” met in March 2025 in the Bavarian capital of Munich. Between their first meeting in …
Merz Bridges G7 Disputes, Eyes NATO
The 2025 G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada, opened under the weight of low expectations and closed under the shadow of deepening transatlantic fault lines. The headlines surrounding the summit were …
The G7 Summit, Plus or Minus
While the G7 economies today account for only 30 percent of global GDP, they remain a decent proxy for what can still be called the “West” in geopolitical terms. Or …
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More Growth Through Less Red Tape
The United States of America is in a much better economic position than the countries of the European Union. This is not only reflected in the corporate structure, with the …
Role Reversal
The Trump Geoeconomic Approach Imitates Merkel The first three months of the Trump administration have seen what could be called the Germanization of U.S. foreign policy. Trump has taken on …
Friedrich Merz, Germany’s European Vision, and the Constraints of German Coalition Politics
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has been having quite a run. His chancellorship stumbled briefly out of the gate, with a second round of voting necessary in the Bundestag on May …
Divided We Fall
Discrimination within the LGBTQIA+ Community The LGBTQ+ community has always experienced discrimination and persecution. Even if the narrative prevails in some circles that equality has been achieved, discrimination and violence …
AGI Profiles: Lars Klingbeil
Leader of the Social Democratic Party, Minister of Finance, and Vice Chancellor of Germany In the aftermath of the 2025 German federal elections, both the Bundestag and German media were …
Operation Plan Germany
Defense Is More Than Tanks and Drones Roughly a year ago, the German government took a significant step in the realm of homeland defense by adopting the classified “Operationsplan Deutschland” …
From Shame to Pride to Propaganda
The Political Afterlives of the Pink Triangle Symbols wield profound political significance, particularly within marginalized communities. They emerge from histories of exclusion and become tools of identity, resistance, and collective …
The Schuman Plan at 75 and the EU’s Global Role
On May 9, the European Union marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Schuman Plan, the project to create a European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) among six countries that was …
