Cyber Policy in Germany and the U.S.: Challenges in an Emerging Policy Field
Introduction: Digitization as Political Challenge As Tessier Stall notes, “[c]yberspace is both the playground and the battleground of the future.”[1] Digitization is a great opportunity for society and modern information …
The German Apprenticeship Model
Watch these clips from this panel from the AGI Annual Symposium: Unfortunately Unqualified: The State of U.S. Jobs and Skills (4:56) German-American Cooperation on Fostering U.S. Apprenticeship Programs (3:44) Not …
Shaping Transatlantic Solutions: Challenges of the 2012 and 2013 Elections
The U.S. elections in 2012 and the German elections in 2013 demonstrate that, despite their geographic distance, the two countries are confronted by both similar and shared problems: debt crises, …
The U.S. and German Approach to Non-Proliferation: Influencing States’ Decisions to Acquire Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear proliferation is not a diminishing problem; rather, it possesses an increasingly significant threat to global security in the twenty-first century. The United States and Germany are committed to the …
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Support Our WorkOnce Upon a Time, It Was a Man’s World: Women in Conservative Parties in Germany and the U.S.
With a gain of 7.7 percent or roughly four million electoral votes[1] in the recent federal elections, the German Christian Conservatives brought in the best results since 1990. That success …
Receiving Reconciliation? Invitations from German Cities to Jewish Refugees of National Socialism in the United States
“I don’t have anything to do with Germany anymore, other than the few times that I went there. And that’s very funny, because the first time, my friend who went …
An Anxious German Media Reacts to the U.S. Government Shutdown
The world has been closely following the partial shutdown of the U.S. Federal Government. The drama playing out in America’s capital is as much a subject of ridicule overseas as …
Energy and Security Risks: A Transatlantic Comparison
Cutting across policy areas, energy security decision-making has become a necessity in the twenty-first century. Having important consequences for climate and space policy, domestic and transatlantic debates over energy policy …
The Church Committee and Contemporary Surveillance
Recently, AGI Non-Resident Fellow, Dr. Russell A. Miller, detailed the “1975 Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities” and its implications for contemporary surveillance in …
The Age of Central Bank Experimentation
This publication, part of AGI’s 30th anniversary Symposium, focuses on the increasingly public role central banks play in the twenty-first century. It asks important questions, including: Do central banks have …
Boring Hard Boards: Negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Part of AGI’s 30th anniversary Symposium, this publication analyzes the transatlantic trade relationship, in particular the prospects for a new Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The authors discuss the …
