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Roundtable Discussion with Andreas Kluth

Andreas Kluth, Editor-in-Chief of Handelsblatt Global, provided a Berlin insider’s view of the key transatlantic and European economic issues at stake in the German elections – from a Franco-German meeting …

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Sep7

Reconciliation in East Asia

Reconciliation processes in Asia face a number of challenges at the official level. However, at the level of civil society some progress is being made. The seminar will look at …

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Sep7

A German-American Dialogue of the Next Generation

AGI is pleased to announce a new project entitled “A German-American Dialogue of the Next Generation: Global Responsibility, Joint Engagement,” which engages young Americans and Germans in discussions of global …

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Sep27

Germany’s New Coalition Government

Following the German elections on September 24, Chancellor Merkel has faced a challenging task in forging a coalition made up of four political parties which did not anticipate becoming partners …

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Nov28

Documenting German and Japanese War Crimes prior to 1945

Dan Plesch’s new book, Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes, sheds light on the existence of a little-known agency founded amid the atrocities of …

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Sep12

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Transatlantic Dynamics in Ongoing Postcolonial Negotiations

The genocide of the Herero and Nama, committed between 1904 and 1908 under German colonial rule in today’s Namibia, is considered the first genocide of the 20th century. Over the …

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Aug30

Elections

In anticipation of the German elections on September 24, AGI hosted a group of experts from the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen to discuss the issues …

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Jul26

Anti-Gentrification Housing Struggles in Los Angeles and Berlin

Communities around the world are mobilizing urban social movements against rising inequality and economic hardship in order to transform local neighborhoods, urban planning practices, and city policies. Minority and immigrant …

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Aug31

Privatization of Immigrant Detention in the United States and Germany

Migration has become a hot-button issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Immigration without proper documentation in the United States and the deportation of those denied asylum in Germany have …

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Jun27

Democracy and Its Discontents

Panel Discussion at the German Historical Institute. Speakers: Kathleen Canning (University of Michigan), Rüdiger Graf (Center for Contemporary History Potsdam), Donna Harsch (Carnegie Mellon University), and Dirk Schumann (University of …

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Apr27

Privatization of Security Services

On April 25, 2017, Dr. Johannes Rieckmann, DAAD/AGI Research Fellow in March and April 2017, presented his findings on his project “Privatization of Security Services: Comparing Approaches to Policing and …

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Apr25

TTIP, Investment Protection, and Transatlantic Populism

Speaker: Dr. Greg Anderson, DAAD/AGI Research Fellow In 2016, voters on both sides of the Atlantic rocked some of the foundational assumptions about transatlantic relations. Populist electoral revolts in Europe …

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Apr27