A Southern TTIP?
Just days after starting her second term as European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen signed the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement on December 6 in Montevideo, Uruguay. This free trade deal …
What Should Europe Do?
As the U.S. presidential election approaches next week, the European Union is readying a package of deterrent or, if necessary, retaliatory actions faced with candidate Donald Trump’s promise of 10-20 …
Friendshoring: A Sea Change for the Global Economy?
This article originally appeared in German in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The international order is experiencing a once-in-a-generation turning point. The fall of the Berlin Wall thirty-five years ago ended …
U.S. Trade Policy at a Crossroads
If Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump were placed along an axis spanning from protectionism to free trade, would that offer a meaningful way to understand their campaign proposals …
Transatlantic Export Control Cooperation beyond 2024
A new U.S. administration and Congress are imminent. With them, the Biden administration’s diplomatic efforts to construct a new allied export control agenda are on the line. Three scenarios highlight …
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Edward Knudsen, DAAD/AGI Research Fellow
AGI is pleased to welcome Edward Knudsen as a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow in Fall 2024. Edward Knudsen is a doctoral researcher in international relations at the University of Oxford, a …
Philip Nock, DAAD/AGI Research Fellow
AGI is pleased to welcome Philip Nock as a DAAD/AGI Fellow in September and October 2024. He works as a research fellow at the University of Bonn’s Center for Advanced …
Robert Habeck in China
Germany’s Continuing China Policy Inertia When German Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister Robert Habeck called for a unified European strategy to stand up against competition with China at the end …
Small Carrots, Hypothetical Sticks, and Phantom Hopes
Scholz’s Visit to China Showcases Parallel Practice to Germany’s China Strategy Nine months after the release of Germany’s first China Strategy, Chancellor Olaf Scholz returned to China at the head …
Realism, Idealism, and U.S. Trade Policy
For nearly 100 years, U.S. trade policy has been judged by where it is situated along a continuum from protectionism to free trade. With the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of …
Transatlantic Climate Statecraft and Global Economic Order
Part I: A Pluralist International Economic Landscape After World War II the United States, several European countries, and other liberal democracies promoted a vision of international economic relations that was …
The Transatlantic Economy in an Election Year
This year will see elections in both the United States (the White House and Congress) and the European Union (the European Parliament and indirectly the next President of the European …
China Is Listening
But It Won’t Be Business as Usual When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and President of the European Council Charles Michel departed China after last week’s EU-China Summit, …
Germany Needs More Industrial Policy
The past two years have been hard for the German economy. Not only has the energy price shock following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shaved off roughly 4 …
