NextGen Rising
The White Rose, the German Nazi resistance movement founded by Munich university students in 1942, started to trend on Twitter in February 2018 as Germans marked the 75th anniversary of …
Does Pyeongchang Lead to Pyeonghwa?
For the first time in history, the world will witness a match in which North and South Korean athletes compete together against Japan. As symbolic as it may be, the …
From 2C to D.C.: College of Idaho grad moves to Washington, D.C., to work in health policy
Read about AGI’s Transatlantic Exchange Program participant Aliza Auces and her experiences as one of the first Latinas from Idaho to work in health policy in Washington, DC. Via the …
A Survivor’s Luck: Reflections on Berlin and Shanghai
Harry Katz is lucky.[1] As a man who has had a life-long love of numbers, he knows the odds were stacked against him from the beginning: He was born a Jew …
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From the AGI Bookshelf: Wir können nicht allen helfen
Just before the German elections in September 2017, Boris Palmer, the mayor of Tübingen presented a new book he wrote about the refugee crisis in Germany: Wir können nicht allen helfen: …
Multi-Ethnic Tenant Movements in Los Angeles and Berlin
Multi-ethnic and immigrant resistance play a pivotal role in challenging the political shifts right, which have been rooted in racism, xenophobia, and social, political, and economic isolationism. Housing movements serve …
Transnational Reconciliation and the Value of Transatlantic Civil Society Actors
“States cannot be tried before foreign courts because of their sovereign activity, for example, the actions of their soldiers,” claims Minister of Justice of the state of Berlin, Dirk Behrendt, …
The Age of Youth: Civil Society and International Understanding Since World War II
After World War II, various discourses emerged that assigned the “youth” and the “young generation” to an important role for the material and mental reconstruction of the postwar societies. These …
Saving the Transatlantic Partnership: Why and How?
Since the end of World War II, the partnership between the U.S. and European countries, built on common security/economic interests and shared values, such as democracy, liberty, rule of law, …
We Need More Diversity in the Transatlantic Civil Society
Civil society organizations need to be more diverse in order to assume their pivotal role in transatlantic relations, especially in the current period of mutual alienation. In the past, dynamic …
