AICGS is pleased to introduce its new series of podcasts, available for your download.  Podcasts are a portable version of AICGS's traditional insights and analyses, featuring interviews with scholars, presentations from guest speakers, and occasional audio versions of AICGS written commentaries.  Listening to AICGS podcasts requires an mp3-capable program on your computer; files are often very large so please be patient when waiting for the file to download.

Featured this week:

Dr. Michael Stolpe and Dr. Stephen Silvia discuss the chances for German and American health care and pension reform with Dr. Jack Janes.

Dr. Josef Joffe presents his new book, "Überpower: The Imperial Temptation of America," at AICGS.

Jack Janes and Stephen Szabo talk to current DAAD/AICGS Fellow Dr. Gunther Hellman about German and American foreign policy developments.

 

In light of the upcoming fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Executive Director Dr. Jackson Janes discusses the need for repaired relations across the Atlantic and argues that both sides need to step up to the plate: the U.S. needs to take the EU more seriously as a partner, and the EU needs to better recognize its global responsibilities.

To read this essay, please click here.

 

AICGS Executive Director Dr. Jackson Janes and Research Director Professor Stephen Szabo analyze the potential that Chancellor Angela Merkel has in leading Europe and argue that understanding Merkel and the political and economic context in which she operates is important for anticipating what to expect from her chancellorship.  This article originally appeared in the March 2007 edition of Current History.

To read this article, please click here (PDF).

 

On Wednesday, March 21, 2007, AICGS will host a discussion on the new book, Civilizing the Enemy: German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West, by Professor Patrick T. Jackson of American University. This discussion is part of the AICGS "New Books on Germany" series; Dr. Gunther Hellmann, DAAD/AICGS Fellow and professor at Frankfurt University, will offer commentary.

AICGS is pleased to announce that Mr. Stanley H. Watters will be joining the Institute as Director of Development and External Communications as of March 22, 2007. Mr. Watters will lead our efforts in securing funding opportunities in the U.S. and Europe as well as developing and maintaining active and productive relationships with the Institute's Board of Trustees, donors, Associates members and staff.

To read a press release regarding Mr. Watters, please click here.

 

AICGS is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for the DAAD/AICGS Fellowship program, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).  The deadline for this round of the program is April 13, 2007.

For application instructions and more information, please click here.

On February 16, 2007, AICGS conducted a workshop entitled "Healthcare and Pension Reform in the United States and Germany," which focused on issue papers written by Dr. Michael Stolpe, Coordinator of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy's Global Health Research Network and Dr. Stephen Silvia, Director of Doctoral Studies at the School of International Service at American University.  This workshop provided insight into the complicated healthcare and pension systems in both the United States and Germany and suggested multiple ways in which both countries could cooperate and learn from one another.

For a summary of this event, please click here.

 

Professor Andrei Markovits, Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Michigan and a member of the AICGS Senior Advisory Council, wrote "Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America," which explores the roots of anti-Americanism in Europe and was recently reviewed in The Washington Post.

To read the review of Professor Markovits' book, please click here.

 

AICGS is seeking a Research Program Assistant/Publications Coordinator to support the Institute's research program and publishing activities.  The Research Program Assistant/Publications Coordinator assists the Research Director and Senior Research Associate with all aspects of AICGS research projects and works with directors and staff on AICGS publishing activities.

For application instructions and more information, please click here.