Commerce, Climate Change, and China: German-American Challenges in 2009
Issue Brief 23 In light of the recent economic downturn, the U.S. presidential candidates and the American public are focusing increasingly on economic issues in the 2008 campaign. While economic …
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 …
Religion and its Impact on Foreign Policy in the United States and Germany: Similarities and Differences
Issue Brief 20 After September 11, attention has shifted in the scholarly and policy communities to religion as a major factor in foreign policy. Islamic fundamentalism and the West’s relationship …
Lost in Translation: The Impact of Culture on the Media in the United States and Germany
Issue Brief 18 The role of the media as an influencer in domestic politics is also crossing over into foreign policy as well. This holds true for the German-American relationship… …
Federalism and Environmentalism in the United States and Germany
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 …
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Support Our WorkInnovation in the United States and Germany: The Future
Policy Report 28 As mature, post-industrial economies, the United States and Germany confront a promising, if uncertain, future in the realm of innovation. How they approach that future—what they choose …
Innovation in the United States and Germany: Case Studies
As two pillars of the global economy, the status and future of applied innovation in the U.S.-German partnership constitutes a long term challenge to decision-makers on both sides of the Atlantic, albeit for slightly different, if convergent, reasons…
Reconciling Religion and Public Life: Essays on Pluralism and Fundamentalism in the United States and Germany
German-American Issues 7 This edited volume is the culmination of an AGI project examining perceptions of religious pluralism and religious fundamentalism in the United States and Germany, generously funded by …
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 …
Why Germany Should Introduce Real Estate Investment Trusts Now
Issue Brief 11 On September 25, 2006 the German finance ministry unveiled draft legislation to introduce Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in Germany. According to an announcement by the finance …
