Boeing vs. Airbus: The WTO Dispute Neither Can Win
Issue Brief 14 In October 2004, the United States terminated the Agreement on Trade in Large Civil Aircraft it had signed with the EU in 1992. This agreement regulated the …
The “Religion” Debates: What Are We Talking About?
Issue Brief 10 Debates about the interaction of religion, faith, and politics have dominated public discourse in the United States and Europe over the past several years… Download Publication
Confronting Religious Diversity in Germany and the United States
Issue Brief 9 In September 2001, less than ten days after the terrorist attacks on Washington, DC and New York, a Public Service Announcement (PSA) began running nationwide on U.S. …
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 …
Innovation in the United States and Germany
Policy Report 26 As economic ties between the United States and Germany have grown steadily deeper and more intertwined, economic performance in one country increasingly affects the transatlantic partnership as …
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Support Our WorkA Reasonable Expectation of Privacy? Data Protection in the United States and Germany
Policy Report 22 In the borderless world of the twenty-first century, global interconnectivity has never been greater. Through the use of millions of computers, billions of e-mails, and a level …
Corporate Governance in Flux: Assessing the Recent Round of Reforms in the United States and Germany
Policy Report 21 In 2004, the American-German Institute published an analysis by Sigurt Vitols and Thomas Kenyon, exploring the respective approaches of the United States and Germany toward corporate governance… …
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 …
The UN After Sixty: Challenges for the Future
Issue Brief 7 In 2005, at the occasion of the UN’s sixtieth anniversary, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on world leaders to “recapture the spirit of San Francisco and …
Combating the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: A Stronger Role for the UN Security Council?
Issue Brief 6 On 29 March 2006 the United Nations Security Council for the first time addressed the issue of Iranian non-compliance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear …
Revitalizing Public Diplomacy: Challenges for Germany and the United States
Issue Brief 5 Public diplomacy has become the new buzzword in foreign policy circles, with the construction of an effective public diplomacy strategy seen as an urgent foreign policy objective …
The Media, Perceptions, and Policy in German-American Relations
Policy Report 20 Differences over the Iraq war led to unprecedented levels of tension in the German-American and transatlantic relationships. The intensity of the division was reflected in the news …
