AICGS Podcasts
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.
MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit speaks about Leitkultur, identity, and integration in Europe.
Dietmar Nietan and Niels Annen of the SPD talk about their party's outlook ahead of the 2009 elections.
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AICGS Alliance Partner
AICGS is pleased to announce that it has entered into an alliance arrangement with the German American Chamber of Commerce, Inc., New York (GACCNY) that will allow both organizations to promote their products and services to each other's members.
Going forward, AICGS and GACCNY will explore opportunities to offer their members additional benefits through this collaboration, including access to publications, educational programs, and networking opportunities.
For more information, please click here.
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Politics is Like That Box of Chocolates...
You Never Know
In this week's At Issue, Executive Director Dr. Jackson Janes discusses the unprecedented CDU-Greens coalition in the Hamburg Bürgerschaft which could signal a breaking of political taboos ahead of the 2009 federal election. To read this essay, please click here.
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The Strong Euro Will Hurt
Former DAAD/AICGS Fellow Dr. Sebastian Dullien, currently professor of international economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, argues that current optimism over the strength of the Euro might be misplaced, as the strong Euro will likely come back to haunt the German manufacturing industry. This essay originally appeared in the Eurozone Watch blog, run jointly by Dr. Dullien and Daniela Schwarzer, co-author of AICGS Policy Report #24. To read this essay, please click here.
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Big Power Goes Local
Stefan Theil, a correspondent for Newsweek and a frequent contributor to the Advisor, writes about German efforts at the local level in the fight against global warming. Theil writes that a grass-roots movement to generate power in towns and basements is challenging the massive energy industry's status quo. This article originally appeared in the April 21, 2008, edition of Newsweek International. To read this article, please click here.
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A Good Day for the Bundestag That Will Not Last
AICGS Senior Fellow in Residence Dr. Tim Stuchtey writes about the recent Bundestag debate over stem cell research and calls the vote a good day for parliamentary culture. However, Dr. Stuchtey argues, the freedom given to MPs on this vote to vote as they desired is not likely to last due to the Bundestag's party-central voting system. To read this essay, please click here.
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A Convergence of Threat Perception?
Dr. Jean-Luc Marret, visiting fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS, looks at the U.S. and EU views of the war on terror and argues that these views have converged in the years after 9/11. This essay results from a workshop on "The European Theatre: German-American- Russian-EU Relations" held on February 25 with the generous support of The German Marshall Fund of the United States. To read this essay, please click here (PDF).
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Upcoming Event: The German Media's Perspectives on the U.S. Presidential Candidates
On May 6, 2008, AICGS and the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung will hold a discussion that will seek to provide an American audience with the perceptions of the process and the candidates in Germany. Three leading German journalists will discuss what their countrymen think about Clinton, McCain, and Obama, how they see the campaigns and the selection process, and what Germans expect from the new president.
To RSVP and for more information, please click here.
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Upcoming Event: Vernissage at AICGSPlease join us for a reception with German artist Ms. Corinna Heumann here at the Institute on Wednesday, May 7, 2008, at 5:30pm. Ms. Heumann's work is currently being shown at the Institute and we cordially invite you to join us in welcoming the artist for this event. Professor Doug Lang, Corcoran School of Art, will be introducing her work and a reception will follow. To RSVP, please email Jennifer Windell at jwindell@aicgs.org.
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Upcoming Event: Germany 2020: Star or Dust?
Please join AICGS for a discussion with Dr. Norbert Walter, Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank Group, on "Germany 2020: Star or Dust?" on Thursday, May 15, 2008. At this roundtable event, Dr. Walter will discuss whether Germany is headed for a Madonna-like everlasting role as an economic star or whether today's glory will only be dust by 2020. To RSVP and for more information, please click here.
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Which Road to Beijing?
On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, AICGS hosted a discussion on transatlantic China policies with two distinguished China experts from both sides of the Atlantic, Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider, the Otto-Wolff Research Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), and Professor David Shambaugh, Director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. The discussion focused on the China-EU relationship and its increasing importance to the United States, as well as U.S.-EU convergences and divergences in policies toward China.
For a summary of this event, please click here.
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Migration and Changing Cultures of Belonging
On April 9, 2008, AICGS hosted a discussion with DAAD/AICGS Fellow Dr. Asiye Kaya on "Migration and Changing Cultures of Belonging: The Case of Alevis from Turkey in the United States and Germany." Dr. Kaya examined the immigration policies of both the U.S. and Germany as well as the politics of the country of origin toward its minority groups. For a summary of this event, please click here.
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