What Can the United States Expect from Germany after the Elections?
The German election is just round the corner and people are asking if the German people really want a change. The short answer is no, not really. We can expect …
Germany: Reluctant Leader and Indispensable Power
In this article in the Globalist, co-author of AGI German-American Issues 12 Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel outlines Germany’s post-election future in the euro zone, broader foreign policy, and leadership in the …
Is Angela Merkel Too Boring for Germany?
In this op-ed, Süddeutsche Zeitung Foreign Editor Stefan Kornelius highlights Chancellor Angela Merkel’s methodical leadership style as a paradox. This style makes her a capable crisis-manager, but also a poor …
The Final Rush: How Will the Election Impact Europe?
The resounding victory for the Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party of Chancellor Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in the Bavarian state elections last Sunday marks the opening of …
Germany’s Sleepy but Significant Election
In this recent essay, frequent AGI contributor and Peterson Institute for International Economics Senior Fellow Dr. Jacob Funk Kirkegaard highlights the general consensus on economic policy issues that matter to …
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Support Our WorkA Battle Over Who Will Rule with Merkel
David Marsh, frequent AGI participant and Director and Co-chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), writes that the remaining week of Bundestag election campaigning will decide between …
Reflexive Security Policy as an Anti-Hegemonic Recipe
In his recent research article, AGI Non-Resident Fellow Gunther Hellmann analyzes the long-debated struggle that is Germany as a growing regional power with internal and external voices both seeking and …
Square Pegs and Round Holes: Syria and Strategic Culture
In what seems like a miracle of casual diplomacy, President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to turn over chemical weapons to the international community. Still, we can hardly call this a …
The High Cost of a Quick Syria Campaign
Writing on the danger of a hands-off approach to Syria, Editor of die Zeit and AGI Trustee Josef Joffe argues that a humanitarian intervention would include far different components than …
A Paean to Boredom: Speculations on the Outcome of the Bundestag Election
Writing on the post-electoral scramble to form a governing coalition in the Huffington Post on September 9, Dr. Andrei Markovits and Joseph Klaver find this year’s election process “another boring ingredient …
After the German Elections: A Diminished Future
On Election Day in Germany, German voters will have little to decide in terms of substance. The best one can expect is a ratification of the status quo. Change is …
Drahgi’s Take on Current Affairs
As G-20 leaders gathered in St. Petersburg and grappled with the question of what to do about Syria, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, tried to …
