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 …
How to Explain PESCO to Trump?
Who would have thought that the signing of a new framework for defense cooperation in the European Union is worthy of a push notification? Now political wonks on both sides …
German Economic Leadership in Europe: More Uncertain and More Needed
The instability produced by the failure to form a so-called “Jamaica” coalition in Germany increases the importance of moving from reliance on de facto German leadership of the Eurozone to …
Communication Challenges and Opportunities for the European Union: Opening Session Keynote Speech
In his remarks to the 8th European Public Communication Conference earlier this month, Anthony Gardner, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2014 to 2017, highlighted the importance for …
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U.S. trade policy in the age of Trump: What role for Europe in the “New Nationalism”?
One year ago, the American public elected in Donald Trump a president who painted international trade not as a generator of U.S. prosperity and a multiplier of its national interest, …
Jana Puglierin, AGSR Fellow
AGI is pleased to welcome Jana Puglierin as an AGI/GMF Fellow with the American-German Situation Room in Washington, DC, in November 2017. Jana Puglierin is Head of the German Council …
European Defense: Just All Right?
In the 1980s British satire Yes, Prime Minister, when reeling at the cost of defense, the British prime minister asks wistfully whether they couldn’t just persuade the Americans to strengthen …
Demise of the “Tech Utopia”: Toward Shared Responsibility
When it comes to regulation, no phrase so aptly expresses the Silicon Valley ethos better than Ben Horowitz’s maxim that, “in Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur …
Democratizing the Economic and Monetary Union
With the Eurozone emerging from years of economic crisis, the reform of the currency union is now in the limelight. After the “election year” in Europe, the reform momentum has …
Understanding Russia
For most of the past 70 years, Germans and Americans have found themselves largely on the same side of issues related to Eastern Europe and Russia. During the Cold War …
Europe’s Illusions
Although for more than 70 years common values were invoked to keep the transatlantic partnership together, now is the time to assert shared U.S.-German interests.
