Climate Change and Energy Security: Lessons Learned
Policy Report 35 In AGI Policy Report 35, “Climate Change and Energy Security: Lessons Learned,” Joseph E. Aldy, Camilla Bausch, and Michael Mehling draw on the experiences in Germany and …
Overcoming the Lethargy: Climate Change, Energy Security, and the Case for a Third Industrial Revolution
Policy Report 34 Climate change is one of the most important challenges that the world faces today. In addition to the war in Iraq, climate policy was also one of …
Global Governance and the Role of NGOs in International Peace and Security
Policy Report 33 Global governance and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are becoming increasingly more important as the world grows more connected, less state-based, and more multinational. Issues that once fell under …
Crossing the Red Lines? The Grand Coalition and the Paradox of German Foreign Policy
Policy Report 32 As the U.S. presidential election in 2008 and the German parliamentary election in 2009 loom large on the horizon, the topic of Afghanistan and the joint ISAF …
Sixty Years After the Founding of the Jewish State: Are German-Israeli Relations Still “Special”?
German-American Issues 8 In the sixty years since Israel’s founding, German-Israeli relations have been nothing if not complex. On the occasion of Israel’s sixtieth anniversary, the essays in German-American Issues …
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Issue Brief 25 For many observers, both inside the United States and abroad, the financing of American political campaigns is regarded with skepticism and some disregard as a system which …
A European Realignment: German-American Responses
Issue Brief 22 German and American relations with Russia; European and American energy security; and the future of NATO and the European Union are all pressing issues which will confront …
We Believe in Change: Europe, the Middle East, and the Future of Transatlantic Cooperation
The remarkably dense media coverage in Europe on the pre-election campaign in the United States is a tell tale sign: America is voting and Europeans are fascinated. Ask any average European these days and you will be surprised to hear him commenting on details of Ohio’s electoral system or the role of the superdelegates, and he will most likely have watched Barack Obama’s speech on Pastor Jeremiah Wright and Hillary Clinton’s tale of sniper fire in Tuzla on YouTube. But the real interest lies in the outcome…
The Impact of EU Treaty Reform on Transatlantic Relations: The Cases of Open Sky and the EU-U.S. Extradition Agreement
In the good old world of realist International Relations’ Theory, international negotiations were conducted by states as unitary actors, and the outcome was seen as the result of the dynamics of a readjustment of the balance of power: Big and rich states, with more resources at their disposal than others would achieve more than small, poor and less resourcefully states…
Security and Stability: German and American Cooperation in Times of Transition
Issue Brief 21 Security issues have weighed heavily on the transatlantic partnership since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Yet different threat perceptions have sometimes led to different German …
Redeployment Reconsidered: Rumsfeld, Gates, and the U.S. Presence in Germany
For over half a century the Federal Republic of Germany has been and still is the single most important host nation for the U.S. military in Europe. At any given point during the Cold War, nearly three-fourths of the European-based forces
were stationed there, or approximately 250,000 personnel…
Russia is Back on Stage: German and American Strategies
Issue Brief 17 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent announcement that he would accept the nomination to head the United Russia ticket in the parliamentary elections in December has been only …
