Foreign Policy

Today, Germany stands at the center of Europe and is the most influential member of the European Union. Germany is a key partner of the U.S. in its most important international relationships. There is no other country with which the U.S. shares a stronger mix of interests and values on twenty-first century challenges.

Foreign & Security Policy

Franco-German Relations: A River Runs Through It

While sharing a common border for centuries, France and Germany have always had deep differences going back even to the days before the two countries even existed. Julius Caesar had …

Jackson Janes

Foreign & Security Policy

Germany’s NSA Naivete

Following President Obama’s exclusive interview with ZDF on Friday, Senior Editor of Der Tagesspiegel Malte Lehming noted that the German media largely characterized the president’s remarks as “too vague, too …

AGI At Issue Interview Series: Philipp Mißfelder

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Philipp Mißfelder

Foreign & Security Policy

2014: Marking Twentieth Century Milestones

During 2014, there will be many different historical milestones, marked with differing purposes yet often with overlapping messages. Three in particular will stand out for Germany, but will be marked …

Jackson Janes

Geoeconomics

Security Breach at Target Corp Highlights Importance of Research on Cyber Security

This morning, Target Corps released that there has been a security breach, and about 40 million credit and debit cards have been accessed from customers of Target stores (not online) …

Kimberly Hauge

Recent Authors

The Dynamics of Collective Memory and German Foreign Policy Since Unification

Policy Report 57 In this Policy Report, Ruth Wittlinger, Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK and former DAAD/AGI fellow, discusses the extent …

Ruth Wittlinger

Policy Reports

Foreign & Security Policy

Remapping German-American Relations

In the course of 2013, German-American relations reached their lowest point since the beginning of the Iraq War a decade ago. Europeans have been outraged over the revelations concerning the …

Jackson Janes, Parke Nicholson

Transatlantic Perspectives

MdB Schockenhoff Discusses Outlook for Foreign Affairs under Grand Coaliton

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Andreas Schockenhoff

Foreign & Security Policy

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

Introduction: Digitization as Political Challenge As Tessier Stall notes, “[c]yberspace is both the playground and the battleground of the future.”[1] Digitization is a great opportunity for society and modern information …

Kathrin Ulmer

Transatlantic Perspectives

Stefan Kornelius Contextualizes Surveillance as a Crisis in German-American Relations

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Stefan Kornelius

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Foreign & Security Policy, Geoeconomics, Society, Culture & Politics

Shaping Transatlantic Solutions: Challenges of the 2012 and 2013 Elections

The U.S. elections in 2012 and the German elections in 2013 demonstrate that, despite their geographic distance, the two countries are confronted by both similar and shared problems: debt crises, …

Alexander Privitera, Jackson Janes, Lily Gardner Feldman, Sebastian Patta, Stanley Litow, Stephen Pettigrew

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