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SUMMARY:After the German Election: What Can the World Expect from Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the dust settles after Germany’s historic election and parties engage in complex negotiations to form a governing coalition\, questions will abound concerning the foreign policy priorities of the new government – and what the end of the Merkel era means for Germany\, Europe\, and the world. What are the key issues that will shape Germany’s role on the world stage in the years to come? \nJoin the ACG and the Freunde des American Council on Germany e.V. for an analysis of the results of the German federal election and their foreign policy implications with Dr. Stefan Fröhlich\, Professor of International Politics and Political Economy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg\, and ACG Board member Dr. Charles Kupchan\, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University. The event will be moderated by ACG Young Leader alumna Sonja Gillert\, who serves as the Head of Audio for Welt.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F9816323216245%2FWN_gTIgNpx5T_uUqR9UWaxwUQ” css=”.vc_custom_1632500924895{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Stefan Fröhlich is Professor of International Politics and Political Economy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is currently also a guest professor at the College of Europe (in Brugge and Natolin) at Oxford University\, and at the Universities of Bonn and Zurich. His fields of research include EU foreign\, economic\, and security policy; transatlantic relations; German foreign\, economic\, and security policy; and international political economy. He is a frequent commentator on international affairs for German and international media. \nDr. Fröhlich was Director of the postgraduate European Studies Program at the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn from 1998 to 2002 and spent time in Washington\, DC\, as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins (2002-03); the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2007); and the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy (2016-17). \nHe is a board member of the German Atlantic Council (Berlin)\, Center for European Integration Studies (Bonn)\, German Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin)\, German Society for Political Science\, Association for European Integration (Berlin)\, and the Institute for European Politics (Berlin). He is the author of numerous books and more than 200 articles on German and European foreign policy and transatlantic relations. \nHe studied Political Science\, Economics\, as well as American and Spanish Literature in Bonn\, Paris\, and Washington (MA 1985; Ph.D. 1989; “Habilitation” (Dr.phil.habil.) 1996). \nDr. Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government. \nFrom 2014 to 2017\, Dr. Kupchan served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) in the Barack Obama administration. He was also the director for European affairs on the NSC during the first Bill Clinton administration.  Before joining the Clinton NSC\, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the policy planning staff.  Previously\, he was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. \nDr. Kupchan is the author of Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World (2020)\, No One’s World: The West\, the Rising Rest\, and the Coming Global Turn (2012)\, How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (2010)\, The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (2002)\, Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001)\, Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999)\, Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998)\, Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe (1995)\, The Vulnerability of Empire (1994)\, The Persian Gulf and the West (1987)\, and numerous articles on international and strategic affairs. \nDr. Kupchan has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs\, Columbia University’s Institute for War and Peace Studies\, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London\, the Centre d’Étude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris\, and the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo. From 2006 to 2007\, he was the Henry A. Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From 2013 to 2014\, he was a senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy. \nModerator: Sonja Gillert (2019 ACG Young Leader) is the head of audio for Welt. Previously\, she served as an editor in the paper’s foreign policy department in Berlin\, where she focuses on Latin America\, Iran\, and China. In 2015 she spent three months in China with the Media Ambassador China Germany Program. \nShe attended the journalist training program at Axel Springer Academy in Berlin and previously worked as a freelance journalist at three of Germany’s major radio stations. In 2009 she earned her MA in Political Science and German Literature at Bonn University. Sonja Gillert also studied at the University of St. Andrews\, Scotland\, for one semester in 2008. In 2009\, she spent three months in Costa Rica volunteering for an environmental project.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/after-the-german-election-what-can-the-world-expect-from-berlin/
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SUMMARY:The World's Most Important Election: Bundestag 2021
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On September 26\, 2021\, German federal elections will be held to elect the 20th Bundestag – the first in 16 years without Angela Merkel standing as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). \nJoin us for an online conversation about the implications of these elections for Germany\, the European Union\, and the world\, with Jeff Rathke\, President of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at the Johns Hopkins\, and Sophia Besch\, a senior researcher with the Centre for European Reform.\nThis event is hosted by the World Affairs Council of Maine.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwacmaine.org%2Fmeetinginfo.php%3Fid%3D12%26ts%3D1631642066″ css=”.vc_custom_1632495461972{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-worlds-most-important-election-bundestag-2021/
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