In AICGS Policy Report #34, Non-Resident Senior Fellow Alexander Ochs examines the twin challenges of climate change and energy security for the U.S. and Germany, focusing on the third industrial revolution - the revolution that has to occur to transform our current combustion engine-based societies into an energy-efficient and climate-friendly world. This Policy Report resulted from a conference on "The Third Industrial Revolution: the Economic Case for Climate Policy," which occurred in March 2008.

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In AICGS Issue Brief #24, Thomas Banchoff, director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, analyzes the politics surrounding stem cell research in Germany and the U.S., focusing on how the religious attitudes of each nation affect policy and public opinion.

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AICGS Trustee and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany John Kornblum writes about the opening of the new American embassy in Berlin and how it represents new challenges and changes in German-American relations in today's world. This essay originally appeared in the July 5, 2008, Die Welt.

To read this essay in German, please click here.

To read this essay in English, please click here.
 

In this week's AICGS Podcasts, Bundestag Member and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Ruprecht Polenz discusses Iran's nuclear ambitions with Dr. Jackson Janes. Also available is a Podcast of the AICGS Symposium on "German-American Relations Under the New Administration," held on June 3 in Berlin as part of the Institute's 25th Anniversary events.

To access the Podcast with Ruprecht Polenz, please click here.

To access the Podcasts of the AICGS Symposium, please click here.
 

AICGS Trustee Dr. Josef Joffe, Publisher/Editor of Die Zeit, discusses presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Berlin and the accompanying hype and in-fighting surrounding the location - and substance - of Obama's speech. This article is available in German only and originally appeared in the July 11, 2008, edition of Die Zeit.

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New AICGS Non-Resident Fellows
As AICGS looks forward to its next twenty-five years, we are pleased to announce our Non-Resident Fellows in Foreign & Domestic Policy; Business & Economics; and Society, Culture & Politics. Drawn from a group of former fellows, authors, DAAD Prize recipients, and colleagues, these experts bring to AICGS an even greater level of insight and analysis into various aspects of the German-American relationship and into this relationship's position in the world as a whole.

To view a list of the AICGS Non-Resident Fellows, please click here.

 

On July 1, 2008, AICGS hosted a conference on "German-Israeli Relations Sixty Years Later: Are They Still Special?" which was supported by the American Jewish Committee in Washington and Berlin. On the occasion of Israel's sixtieth anniversary, the conference brought together a wide-ranging group of scholars, experts, and policymakers from Germany, Israel, and the United States to examine the German-Israeli relationship from a variety of perspectives.

For a summary of this event, please click here.

Terrorism in the Transatlantic Context:
The Political Dimension
On June 23, 2008, AICGS hosted a conference on "Terrorism in the Transatlantic Context: The Political Dimension." The workshop, which was supported by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, focused on the transatlantic understanding of terrorism and how transatlantic cooperation can support the struggle against global terrorism.

For a summary of this event, please click here.

 

The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies is seeking applicants for doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century. The program offers up to one-year of research support at the Freie Universität Berlin; the deadline for this year's applications is December 1, 2008.

For more information, please visit their website.

 

Every year, AICGS awards the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies in recognition of exceptional work in one of the Institute's three major areas of research. The central aim of this prize is to foster a new generation of American scholarship on Germany and encourage innovative contributions to the interdisciplinary scope of German Studies. This year's prize carries a stipend of $5,000 and will be awarded in the field of Economics; nominations must be received no later than September 12, 2008.

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AICGS is seeking an Assistant to the Executive Director to support the Executive Director in his daily activities and with the organization of all Public Affairs program events. The candidate must be bilingual in spoken and written English and German; the position will be available starting August 1, 2008.

For information and application instructions, please click here.

 

AICGS offers unpaid internships to undergraduate and graduate students in spring, summer, and fall. AICGS internships provide a professional and educational experience in a not-for-profit organization; the deadline for Fall 2008 applications has been extended to July 31, 2008.

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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 Spring 2009 (January 2009 - June 2009) is August 31, 2008.

For more information and application instructions, please click here.