U.S. Elections 2024
Outlook on the Economy, Financial Markets, and the Global Trade System AGI and the Swiss private bank Bergos have released a new report, “U.S. Elections 2024: Outlook on the Economy, …
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 …
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 …
Transatlantic Export Control Cooperation beyond 2024
A new U.S. administration and Congress are imminent. With them, the Biden administration’s diplomatic efforts to construct a new allied export control agenda are on the line. Three scenarios highlight …
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Support Our WorkEpisode 113: A Geoeconomic Europe?
The German economic model is facing headwinds: a loss of secure energy from Russia, renewed urgency to rebuild its defense capabilities, and a fragmenting global economy where not everyone plays …
Does Germany Need an Economic Pivot?
With customary fanfare, Germany’s political heavyweights recently opened the construction site of a new semiconductor facility in Saxony. For Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the newly confirmed European Commission President Ursula …
Edward Knudsen, DAAD/AGI Research Fellow
AGI is pleased to welcome Edward Knudsen as a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow in Fall 2024. Edward Knudsen is a doctoral researcher in international relations at the University of Oxford, a …
Philip Nock, DAAD/AGI Research Fellow
AGI is pleased to welcome Philip Nock as a DAAD/AGI Fellow in September and October 2024. He works as a research fellow at the University of Bonn’s Center for Advanced …
Episode 111: Trade and Transatlantic Economic Security
At least since the Hiroshima G7 summit in May 2023, the United States and the European Union have been explicitly calling upon trade policy to advance their economic security. While …
Debt Brake Woes
In order to understand the German debt brake (and the debate surrounding it), it is essential to observe that contemporary Germans are deeply averse to debt. Both culturally and politically, …
What the Elections in France and the UK Don’t Tell Us about Europe
Political pendulums in an unstable Europe are swinging faster, more wildly, and in unpredictable ways. Except when they’re not. There is certainly evidence for the first narrative given the results …
