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 …
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Policy Report 31 In an increasingly interwoven and interdependent transatlantic community, the political decision-making process is expanding both horizontally and vertically. The actors on the policy stage are multiplying at …
Women and Entrepreneurship in Germany
Issue Brief 12 The great Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter, argued that it is entrepreneurs, or ‘wild spirits,’ who inspire innovation and technological change in a nation. Schumpeter coined the German …
The U.S. and Germany in the United Nations: Cooperation Prospects and Conflict Potential
Issue Brief 8 The United States and Germany have long supported the United Nations. In recent years, however, the two countries have at times been at loggerheads over whether or …
The Stresses of Deep Integration: The Transatlantic Relationship’s New Economic and Political Challenges
Policy Report 23 As a consequence of deepening transatlantic economic integration, trade and financial ties between the United States and Germany today are a vital part of the bilateral relationship …
German and American Perspectives on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East Conflict
German-American Issues 6 Perhaps there is no issue today that better reminds us of the link between culture and politics than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East. Our decision …
