Episode 35: The Christian Democratic Union after Merkel: The Race for CDU Chairmanship and the 2021 Federal Election
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not stand for re-election when voters go to the polls on September 26, 2021. Her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is one of the most successful …
Episode 34: Berlin Wall: The View from the West
Images of the fall of the Berlin Wall dominate the public consciousness when thinking about the end of the Cold War. Photos of jubilant Germans standing atop the symbol of …
Episode 33: The German Approach to China and the Indo-Pacific
Germany’s relationship with China is one of Berlin’s top priorities. In the past few years, a crucial debate has taken place in Germany and has broadened the issues in the …
Episode 32: Global Trade and Economic Dynamics
On this episode of The Zeitgeist, Mike Froman, Chairman of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and U.S. Trade Representative during the Obama administration, joins AGI’s Jeff Rathke and Peter …
Episode 31: How Ike Led: A Conversation with Susan Eisenhower
Germany was a part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s life from his earliest days—his family descended from German immigrants and lived in a tight-knit, pious community in Kansas. As Supreme …
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Support Our WorkEpisode 30: German Politics Heats Up
German political dynamics have made an early and perhaps unexpected change this summer, coming out of the “Sommerloch,” with two new announcements from the Social Democratic Party. First, the SPD …
Episode 29: German-American Relations in 2020
On this episode of The Zeitgeist, Peter Beyer, Member of the Bundestag and Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation in the German Federal Foreign Office, talks with Jeff Rathke about the broad …
Episode 28: From Frugality to Stimulus: Responses to the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging all aspects of modern society. Public health systems are grappling with a disease that has spread faster than anything in a century. Workplaces have lain …
Episode 27: EU-U.S. Relations: Messy but Valuable
The European Union is one of the world’s most important but least understood international bodies. It is simultaneously many things: a collection of institutions, including an executive administration (the European …
Episode 26: Deep History and Politics in Eastern Germany Today
How does the past shape today’s politics? For states in eastern Germany, memories of life in the German Democratic Republic are not that distant of a past. One example is …
Episode 25: Defeat or Liberation: The Changing Interpretations of May 8
May 8 marked the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. While the displays of remembrance differed from the past given presence of the coronavirus, it …
