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SUMMARY:Gender Equity As A National Security Priority In Germany And The United States
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It has been said that when women do better\, countries do better. However\, globally gender equity is lagging. In late 2020\, the European Union adapted a Feminist Foreign Policy\, in which the principle of equality between women and men became core value of the EU. It also requires increased female presentation in leadership roles and increased development assistance to programs promoting gender equity. Likewise\, the Biden-Harris Administration has put gender equity in the forefront of decision-making by creating the Gender Policy Council. These new policies and priorities will reshape how foreign policy and national security are conducted. \nJoin us on March 8 – International Women’s Day – at 9:00 am ET for a discussion about how gender equity is a priority for foreign policy and national security with Member of the European Parliament Hannah Neumann (Greens)\, who spearheaded the Feminist Foreign Policy; Dr. Armgard von Reden\, Chairwoman of Women in International Security Germany; and Julia Santucci\, former Senior Advisor in the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues during the Obama Administration.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F7116146197533%2FWN_VboTHoLbT3mVuAxkM4nSDw” css=”.vc_custom_1614619814326{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Hannah Neumann is a Member of the European Parliament where she serves as the Peace and Human Rights Coordinator for the Greens / EFA Group\, Vice-Chair of the Human Rights Committee (DROI)\, Member of the committees on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and Security and Defense Policy (SEDE)\, as well as Chair of the Delegation for Relations to the Arabian Peninsula (DARP). \nMs. Neumann studied media sciences and peace and conflict studies\, which is also the subject she chose for her PhD. Her academic career brought her to Ilmenau\, Berlin\, Manila and Monrovia. Before joining the European Parliament\, she was a self-employed expert and consultant for peace projects\, i.a. in projects for the United Nations\, the Society for International Cooperation\, the European Commission\, the DGAP\, GPPi and aid organizations. She advised ministries and non-governmental organizations on campaigns on anti-discrimination\, promotion of democracy\, climate protection on the local level and human rights. From 2013 until 2016\, she worked as policy advisor in the German Bundestag. \nDr. Armgard von Reden is the Chairwoman of WIIS.de (Women in International Security Germany) and a strategy consultant based in Berlin\, advising companies on diversity and data protection issues. She also teaches international\, data protection\, and security management at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Leibniz University in Hanover. \nShe joined IBM in 1987 and from 2002 to 2011 she held the position of Director of Government Programs for Germany\, Russia and the CIS countries. From 2001 until 2010 she was the Chief Privacy Officer for IBM in Europe\, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Before that\, she held various international management positions at IBM in Paris\, Brussels\, and elsewhere. In the 1990s\, she took a leave of absence to serve as the head of the communications department of the President of the Bundestag\, Rita Süßmuth\, for three years. Before joining IBM\, she worked as a legislative assistant at the U.S. Congress (House and Senate)\, and was a freelance journalist in the U.S. for German newspapers and The Economist\nJulia Santucci is Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies and Director of the Hesselbein Forum Leadership Program in International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Ms. Santucci has over a decade of experience in national security and foreign policy positions. She served as a senior advisor in the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues from 2015 to 2017\, where she worked to advance gender equality as a core U.S. foreign policy priority. This included work to integrate women’s issues into U.S. efforts to counter terrorism and violent extremism globally. From 2012 to 2014\, she served as director for Egypt at the National Security Council\, providing advice to the President of the United States and the national security advisor on coordinating U.S. policy toward Egypt across the interagency. She worked for 10 years as a leadership analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency\, where she provided written assessments and oral briefings to the president\, Cabinet members\, and other senior officials to help inform their decision making around developments in the Middle East.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/gender-equity-as-a-national-security-priority-in-germany-and-the-united-states/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210308T110000
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SUMMARY:Political Free Speech or Hate Speech? The Role and Responsibility of the State and Social Media Companies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The debate over differences in U.S. and European speech rights is a perennial issue. But\, the emergence of private social media platforms – and their dominance – has given the issue a new dimension and a new sense of urgency. What is the role and responsibility of the state and private companies in terms of monitoring and preventing hate speech? Where is the dividing line between free speech and censorship? \nJoin the American Council on Germany\, the Max Planck Law Network\, and the Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association for a discussion with Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher\, Dir­ect­or at the Max Planck In­sti­tute for the Study of Crime\, Se­cur­ity and Law\, in Freiburg\, Germany\, and Nadine Strossen\, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School. The discussion will be moderated by Russell Miller\, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Max Planck Law Network and J.B. Stombock Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F3116147075851%2FWN_r8xwnLvWTw6LlT57YTgcrA” css=”.vc_custom_1614707618732{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher has been the Dir­ect­or of the Max Planck In­sti­tute for the Study of Crime\, Se­cur­ity\, and Law\, in Freiburg\, Germany since 2019. He has been a Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Freiburg since 2009\, serving as the Dir­ect­or of the Center for Se­cur­ity and So­ci­ety from 2013 to 2018 and as Dean of the Law Faculty from 2018 to 2019. His fields of expertise include: German constitutional rights\, the right to education and inclusion\, freedom of religion\, the right to human dignity\, German constitutional history\, legal cultures\, legal theory\, and legal philosophy. In 2007-2008 he was a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. \nProf. Dr. Poscher is (co-)author of Der Verfassungskompromiß zum Religionsunterricht [The German constitutional compromise on religious instruction in schools] (2000)\, Grundrechte als Abwehrrechte [Fundamental rights as negative rights] (2003)\, Menschenwürde im Staatsnotstand [Human dignity in a state of emergency] (2006)\, Das Recht auf Bildung [The right to education] (2009)\, and Grundrechte. Staatsrecht II [Fundamental rights. Constitutional law II] (2014). Prof. Dr. Poscher studied law at the Uni­versity of Bonn\, the Uni­versité de Bour­gone (Di­jon)\, the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Polit­ic­al Sci­ence\, and Hum­boldt Uni­versity Ber­lin. \nNadine Strossen\, the John Marshall Harlan II Professor Emerita at New York Law School and the past President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008)\, is a leading expert and frequent speaker/ commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties\, who has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. She serves on the advisory boards of the ACLU\, Electronic Privacy Information Center\, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)\, Heterodox Academy\, and National Coalition Against Censorship. The National Law Journal has named Professor Strossen one of America’s “100 Most Influential Lawyers\,” and several other national publications have named her one of the country’s most influential women. \nProfessor Strossen’s 2018 book HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech\, Not Censorship has earned praise from ideologically diverse experts\, including Harvard Professor Cornel West and Princeton Professor Robert George. Washington University selected HATE as its 2019 “Common Read.” Her earlier book\, Defending Pornography: Free Speech\, Sex\, and the Fight for Women’s Rights\, was named a New York Times “notable book” of 1995. Strossen graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Before becoming a law professor\, she practiced law in Minneapolis (her hometown) and New York City. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/political-free-speech-or-hate-speech-the-role-and-responsibility-of-the-state-and-social-media-companies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T110000
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SUMMARY:The Digital Economy And “Flexwork”: Stop Gaps Or Models For The Future?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]2020 was an inflection point for the gig economy and the digital fabric of commerce and business. Companies had to adapt to new ways of working in order to stay afloat during the pandemic. Using artificial intelligence\, diversifying employment models from full-time jobs to gigworkers and crowdsourcing\, and moving to flexwork and hybrid workplaces are all part of the toolbox. But what will happen after the pandemic? Will we see a shift back to traditional work models and the physical economy? Or will we continue on the path toward increased digital demand and supply structures and flexwork models? \nJoin the American Council on Germany and 1014 for a discussion on the future of work with Thorben Albrecht\, Policy Director of IG Metall and former Permanent State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs\, and Jeff Schwartz\, Principal and U.S. Leader for the Future of Work at Deloitte Consulting LLP\, and author of Work Disrupted: Opportunity\, Resilience\, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work (2021).[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5916147848359%2FWN_I4XsvxFVT1Kih4N18KirAw” css=”.vc_custom_1614784882863{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Thorben Albrecht currently serves as Policy Director of IG Metall\, the German metalworkers’ trade union. He is responsible for developing policies and strategies for the union and also represents IG Metall’s more than two million members vis-á-vis political institutions in Berlin and Brussels. He is an internationally recognized expert on the future of work. His fields of expertise include automation and artificial intelligence\, new forms of work\, and managing transitions\, including skills development\, flexibility arrangements\, and social dialogue. \nFrom 2017 to 2019\, Mr. Albrecht was a member of the Global Commission on the Future of Work established by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and chaired by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. He also served as Permanent State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (2014-2018). One of his most important legislative projects was the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany. He also launched the “Work 4.0” dialogue – a public dialogue of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs on the future of work. As State Secretary he was a member of the German Government’s IT Council and of the “digital agenda” steering group. \nFrom 2008 to 2013 Mr. Albrecht was Head of Office for Andrea Nahles and of the policy department of the Executive Board of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). Prior to that he worked for the National Executive Board of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) as Head of Division responsible for the coordination of European affairs. In 2008\, he was a Marshall Memorial Fellow through the German Marshall Fund of the United States. \nJeff Schwartz\, a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP\, is the U.S. leader for the Future of Work and the U.S. leader of Deloitte Catalyst\, Tel Aviv\, linking the Israeli startup ecosystem with global clients. Mr. Schwartz advises senior business leaders at global companies on workforce transformation\, organization\, HR\, talent\, and leadership. He has been the global editor of Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends report since its launch in 2011. He is also the author of Work Disrupted: Opportunity\, Resilience\, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work (2021). \nMr. Schwartz has lived and worked in India\, Russia\, Kenya\, Nepal\, Belgium\, and the United States. He holds graduate degrees in management from Yale University and public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He was one of the first associate directors of the U.S. Peace Corps in the Russian Federation from 1992-1993 and a Fellow at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation from 1980-1981.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-digital-economy-and-flexwork-stop-gaps-or-models-for-the-future/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T110000
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SUMMARY:Digital Democracy: The Impact of Digitalization on Politics and Governance
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]National governments are increasingly dominated by political polarization\, crisis management\, and partisan gridlock\, often rendering them unable to join forces to address common global challenges. In view of inaction at the federal level\, subnational actors such as states\, communities\, and cities have often stepped up to fill this void left by traditional nation-states. This trend has also characterized transatlantic relations and the German-American partnership. \nTo explore collaboration at the state-level\, the Aspen Institute Germany and the American Council on Germany have launched the virtual event series State-to-State: German-American State Legislator Dialogue. Together\, it is our goal to provide a platform for subnational exchange and in-depth discussions amongst German and American state legislators on common transatlantic challenges with Assemblymember Marc Berman (D)\, California State Assembly; Daniel Karrais\, MdL (FDP)\, State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg; and Katharina Schulze\, MdL (Alliance 90/The Greens)\, State Parliament of Bavaria. \nThe coronavirus pandemic has forced politics to go virtual\, accelerating the development of new digital formats in political communication\, campaigning\, party organization\, legislative processes\, and political participation. But even before COVID-19\, digitalization efforts played a major role in the debate on how to strengthen democracy and the political discourse. The three state legislators will address both opportunities and challenges that come with an increasingly digitized democracy and share their own experiences and visions for a digital future.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Faspeninstitute-de.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtZAufumpqj8vGNPLebVAUxflQzVOImZOB91l” css=”.vc_custom_1614784994946{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text] \nMarc Berman was first elected to the California State Assembly in November 2016 to represent the 24th District\, which includes southern San Mateo County and northern Santa Clara County in the heart of Silicon Valley. Marc serves as chair of the Committee on Elections and Redistricting\, where he has become a leading voice on protecting voters from deceptive elections practices\, making election information more accessible to voters\, and improving election cybersecurity and campaign finance disclosure. In addition\, for the past two legislative sessions\, he has chaired two select committees\, the Select Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education in California and the Select Committee on the Census. \nDaniel Karrais has been a member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg since November 2018. He represents the FDP/DVP parliamentary group in the Committee for Domestic Affairs\, Digitalization and Migration\, the Committee for Environment\, Climate and Energy\, and the Committee for European and International Affairs. Prior\, he worked as an advisor to another member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg and as a manager at NetCom BW amongst other positions. Since May 2019\, Mr. Karrais has been a municipal council in Rottweil. From 2013 to 2019\, he was deputy district chairman of the Free Democrats Rottweil and has been their district chairman since April 2019. \nKatharina Schulze is among the youngest parliamentarians in Bavaria and the face of the Bavarian Greens. She wants to transform Bavaria into the first federal state with a gender balance in political offices and develop it into a state of ecological sustainability\, digital opportunities and cosmopolitanism. She is Member of the State Parliament since October 2013 and Chairwoman of the Green Party Parliamentary Group since 2017. At the 2018 elections\, while she was front-runner for the Greens\, they received 17\,6% of the votes. She is the Green Spokeswoman for Domestic Affairs and a Member of the Committee for Community Affairs\, Domestic Security and Sport. Since November 2019 she is a member of the party executive committee on the federal level of Alliance 90/The Greens. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/digital-democracy-the-impact-of-digitalization-on-politics-and-governance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T210000
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SUMMARY:Transatlantic Renewal? A New Era for German-American Relations
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A virtual discussion with Ricklef Beutin\, Deputy Chief of Mission at the German Embassy\, and moderated by Dr. Steven E. Sokol\, President of the American Council on Germany.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6816146126379%2FWN_EHdDDoBEQnqN8fiZTm9ixA” css=”.vc_custom_1614785760943{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Ricklef Beutin assumed the position of Deputy Chief of Mission at the German Embassy in Washington\, DC\, in July 2019. \nPrior to this\, he was a Visiting Fellow in the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. Before coming to the United States in 2018\, Mr. Beutin served as Chief of Staff to German Federal Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel. Between 2011 and 2017\, he was Chief of Staff to several State Secretaries of the German Federal Foreign Office. \nFrom 2015 to 2016\, Mr. Beutin headed the division for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and served as deputy head of the Task Force for the German OSCE Chairmanship in 2016. Previous positions in the German Foreign Office include Head of the Division for Parliamentary and Cabinet Affairs and Deputy Spokesman of the German Permanent Representation to the EU. Between 2005 and 2007\, Mr. Beutin was seconded to the EU Commission’s policy planning division Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA) as foreign policy analyst. \nMr. Beutin holds an M.A. in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a degree in law from the University of Bonn\, Germany. \nSteven E. Sokol (moderator) has been the President of the American Council on Germany since May 2015. He served as President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh from July 2010 until April 2015. Prior to that\, he was the Vice President and Director of Programs at the American Council on Germany for nearly eight years. \nEarlier in his career\, Dr. Sokol served as the Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Berlin\, was the Head of the Project Management Department at the Bonn International Center for Conversion GmbH (BICC)\, and was a Program Officer in the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He holds a Doctorate in Law and Policy from Northeastern University as well as an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. He has also studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Freie Universität in Berlin.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/transatlantic-renewal-a-new-era-for-german-american-relations/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T130000
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SUMMARY:State Elections Kick off Germany’s Superwahljahr
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On Sunday\, 14 March 2021\, Germany will hold state elections in the western Länder of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. Although the states are relatively small – with roughly 7.7 million and 3.1 eligible voters\, respectively – these elections mark the beginning of Germany’s Superwahljahr\, which will culminate with federal elections in late September and the formation of a new government with a new Chancellor for the first time in 16 years. \nImportant in their own right because state governments are responsible for issues such as education policy\, justice\, and policing\, state elections often serve as a test of the public mood toward the federal government and the political parties. \nJoin us on the day after the state elections for an assessment of the results and Germany’s party landscape in an election year from Politics Editor for ZEIT ONLINE Katharina Schuler and Florian Naumann of Merkur.de.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F2616154007434%2FWN_657Yh5T1RU-nKDd9PKqh_g” css=”.vc_custom_1615400774070{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Florian Naumann is Team Leader and Editor in the Politics Department of Merkur.de – the online branch of Münchner Merkur\, one of Munich’s traditional newspapers. Before joining Merkur.de in 2016\, he worked as a freelance journalist for German newswires such as epd and dapd in Munich\, Berlin\, and Erfurt. Having studied Politics in Munich and Lund (Sweden) and finished his M.A. with a thesis on Political Theory and Philosophy\, his journalistic focus is on German domestic politics including democratic practice and standards\, social issues\, and developments within the CDU/CSU\, SPD and Greens. Besides his work in journalism\, Florian Naumann engages in the promotion of culture and music as a member of the board of the non-profit association innen.aussen.raum in Munich. \n  \nKatharina Schuler is an Editor in the Politics\, Economics\, and Society Department for ZEIT ONLINE. An early adaptor to online news production\, she has been with ZEIT ONLINE since 2005. Prior to that\, she worked for a regional newspaper in Thuringia and as a freelance journalist for the Netzeitung (the first newspaper in Germany to be published only on the internet) and for other German newspapers such as Der Tagesspiegel and taz. \nMs. Schuler has focused on German domestic politics – including in-depth work on the CDU/CSU\, the Greens\, and the Left Party – as well as topical issues such as the refugee crisis and its consequences for German politics. Born and raised in southern Germany\, she studied History\, Philosophy\, and Literature in Freiburg\, Bielefeld\, and Berlin – and later Journalism in Mainz.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/state-elections-kick-off-germanys-superwahljahr/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T120000
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SUMMARY:Economic Recovery\, Trade Unions\, and the Future of Work
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The pandemic has forced companies around the globe to adapt their business models. Due to public health concerns and lockdowns\, many companies had to lay off or furlough workers. In Germany\, Kurzarbeit policies softened the economic blow. With the rollout of vaccines and the passage of economic recovery bills\, what does the future hold for organized labor\, trade unions\, and the workers they represent? Has the pandemic accelerated digitalization trends in manufacturing? \nJoin the American Council on Germany and 1014 for a discussion about how trade unions are coping with the impact of Covid-19 with Reiner Hoffmann\, the Chairman of the German Trade Union Confederation (Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund or DGB)\, and John E. Shinn\, International Secretary and Treasurer of the United Steelworkers.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F7716154009398%2FWN_Z8BnlYVCQmKvET08htKetw” css=”.vc_custom_1615400975084{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Reiner Hoffmann was elected Chairman of the German Trade Union Confederation (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund)\, one of the biggest national confederations of trade unions worldwide\, in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. He became a member of the Executive Board of the DGB in 2014. Prior to this\, he was a Regional Director of IG BCE – Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau\, Chemie\, Energie (the Industrial Mining\, Chemistry\, and Energy Union) of North Rhine. \nMr. Hoffmann served as Deputy Secretary-General of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) from 2003 to 2009 and Director of the European Trade Union Institute (EGI) in Brussels from 1994 to 2003. Prior to that\, he worked at the Hans Böckler Foundation in Düsseldorf from 1983 to 1994. Mr. Hoffmann started his career as a trainee at Hoechst and continued his education studying at the Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal. He completed his studies in 1982 as a graduate economist and worked for a limited time as an assistant to the Economic and Social Committee of the European Community in Brussels. Mr. Hoffmann has been a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 1972. He serves on numerous Boards\, including those of Bayer AG and Atlantik-Brücke. \nJohn E. Shinn is the International Secretary-Treasurer of the United Steelworkers\, and has served as the union’s chief financial officer since July 15\, 2019. Prior to this appointment\, he was Director of District 4\, which includes Connecticut\, Delaware\, Massachusetts\, Maine\, New Hampshire\, New Jersey\, New York\, Rhode Island\, Vermont and Puerto Rico. As Director\, Mr. Shinn aggressively promoted the USW\, its members and job creation in the District. Shortly after taking office\, he coordinated the USW’s response to Hurricane Sandy\, which tore through the Mid-Atlantic region in October 2012. \nMr. Shinn has been a union activist throughout his career\, which began in 1974 at CE Glass Co.\, now AFG Industries\, in Cinnaminson\, N.J. Shortly after joining CE Glass\, he voted for representation by the United Glass and Ceramic Workers Union\, which later merged with the Aluminum\, Brick & Glass Workers International Union (ABG) and then the USW in 1997. Over the years\, Mr. Shinn has served on many labor councils and community and safety organizations. He currently serves on the New York AFL-CIO Executive Council.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/economic-recovery-trade-unions-and-the-future-of-work/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180555
CREATED:20210309T145150Z
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SUMMARY:Socio-Economic Impact of the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect lives around the world\, it is becoming clear that the pandemic and its economic fallout are having a regressive effect on gender equality. Sociologist Jutta Allmendinger recently claimed the pandemic will set Germany back 30 years in terms of the equality achieved between men and women. Mothers in particular are disadvantaged by existing containment strategies. But\, was the situation really much better to start with or is the pandemic only exacerbating inequities that long predated the virus\, as economist Richard V. Reeves recently suggested? \nThis panel discussion will feature Jutta Allmendinger (President of WZB Berlin Social Science Center) and Richard V. Reeves (Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution). The discussion will be moderated by Birte Meier (Journalist\, ZDF) whose residency at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles to work on “Equal Pay in California and what Germany can learn from it” was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. \nAn online panel discussion hosted by Thomas Mann House\, WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the American Council on Germany. \nWatch the discussion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU_QujdOlpY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/socio-economic-impact-of-the-pandemic/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210326T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210326T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180555
CREATED:20210319T161658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210319T161658Z
UID:10000590-1616756400-1616760000@www.acgusa.org
SUMMARY:Sustainable Finance in Germany and the United States: ESG Partners or Rivals?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Late last month the Sustainable Finance Committee\, which advises the German federal government on the development and implementation of its Sustainable Finance Strategy\, released a report outlining more than 30 policy recommendations to be taken to establish a sustainable financial system. Digitalization\, globalization\, climate concerns\, and more recently the coronavirus pandemic are driving change around the world. In order to address these trends\, companies must innovate and adapt to survive. The finance sector can play a role in facilitating this transformative process by doing more to address sustainability and the social impact of investing. \nJoin us for a discussion about Germany’s model for sustainable finance with one of the members of the Sustainable Finance Committee\, Dr. Gerald Podobnik\, the CFO of the Corporate Bank division of Deutsche Bank.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4016161705319%2FWN_3zd1fnICQkqqzshY4q4_Tg” css=”.vc_custom_1616170576579{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Gerald Podobnik has been the CFO of the Corporate Bank division of Deutsche Bank since 2019. In this role\, he is responsible for all financial matters of the division including financial reporting\, performance management as well as resource allocation. In addition\, Gerald has various sustainable finance responsibilities within Deutsche Bank\, such as co-chairing the group-wide sustainability council and heading the ESG business of the Corporate Bank division. He has been with Deutsche Bank for more than 15 years. \nSince its creation in 2019\, Gerald has been a member of the Sustainable Finance Committee. He holds a doctorate degree in law and a master’s degree in business administration from Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz\, Austria.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/sustainable-finance-in-germany-and-the-united-states-esg-partners-or-rivals/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T093000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180555
CREATED:20210326T162211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210326T162211Z
UID:10000592-1617008400-1617010200@www.acgusa.org
SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG hosts a hybrid event on both Zoom and Clubhouse with journalist Andreas Kluth\, Bloomberg Opinion columnist and former Editor-in-Chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for The Economist.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F9316167755707%2FWN_68HYhnSCRfmSFYVdos7vAw” css=”.vc_custom_1616775722772{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/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180555
CREATED:20210326T212559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210326T212559Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Foreign Policy - Employing a People-Centered Approach to Transatlantic Security and Peace
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nWith a new U.S. administration and a more assertive and capable European Union\, there is now a once-in-a-generation opportunity to design a new transatlantic agenda for global cooperation based on our common values\, interests\, and global influence. Against the backdrop of a new geopolitical and economic reality\, a strong transatlantic relationship to sustain peace and security is undeniably relevant. A Feminist Foreign Policy questions the traditional understanding of state security and calls for a people-centered approach to security and peace. How can this approach be integrated into transatlantic relations? What are the resources and policies needed to strengthen European and transatlantic defense\, as well as transatlantic security cooperation from a feminist perspective? \nJoin 1014 and CFFP\, in support from the ACG\, to discuss these questions with Pam Campos Palma\, political strategist\, former military intelligence analyst\, and Director of Peace and Security at the Working Families Party; and Verity Coyle\, Senior Advisor and Nonresident Fellow with Stimson’s Conventional Defense program. \nModerated by Kristina Lunz\, Executive Director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtJckf-qspzojHdbXPCnuapAyVIS8YyUIGAHw” css=”.vc_custom_1616793928986{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/feminist-foreign-policy-employing-a-people-centered-approach-to-transatlantic-security-and-peace/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210406T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210406T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180555
CREATED:20210319T162106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210319T162106Z
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SUMMARY:Economic Inequality After The Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A discussion of inequalities revealed and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic\, the public policy tools available to ameliorate them\, and the likely paths economies will take in recovery.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fgc-cuny.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_RJ-CFIWrQxe8IZeyKutOWQ” css=”.vc_custom_1616170814251{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Wolfgang Schmidt was appointed State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Finance in March 2018. Prior to that\, he served as State Secretary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for seven years\, and he was a member of the European Committee of Regions (2015 to 2018). During his career\, Mr. Schmidt also served as Director of the Office of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Germany. From 2007 to 2009\, he was Chief of Staff of the German Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs and Head of the Policy and Planning Unit. He has been a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 1989 and also served as Chief of Staff to the SPD’s Secretary-General. He studied Law in Hamburg and Bilbao/Spain. \nAngella MacEwen is the Senior Economist at the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)\, and a Policy Fellow with the Broadbent Institute. Her primary research focus is understanding the Canadian labor market\, broader economic trends\, and the impacts of social policy on workers. Ms. MacEwen regularly represents the CUPE at parliamentary committees and in the national media. She has been a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives since 2006 and contributes to the annual Alternative Federal Budget. She is on the steering committee of the Progressive Economics Forum\, as well as the Trade Justice Network. Ms. MacEwen holds an MA in Economics (Dalhousie University) and a BA in International Development Studies (Saint Mary’s University). \nBranko Milanovic is a Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality. He served as lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years\, leaving to write his book on global income inequality\, Worlds Apart (2005). Prof. Milanovic was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington (2003-2005) and has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1997-2007). He was a visiting scholar at All Souls College in Oxford\, and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (2010-11). \nProfessor Milanovic’s main area of work is income inequality\, in individual countries and globally\, including in preindustrial societies. He has published articles in Economic Journal\, Review of Economics and Statistics\, Journal of Economic Literature\, Journal of Development Economics\, and Journal of Political Philosophy\, among others. His book The Haves and the Have-nots (2011) was selected by The Globalist as the 2011 Book of the Year. Global Inequality (2016) was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the best political book of 2016 and the Hans Matthöfer Prize in 2018\, and was translated into 16 languages. It addresses the economic and political effects of globalization and introduces the concept of successive “Kuznets waves” of inequality. In March 2018\, Prof. Milanovic was awarded (jointly with Mariana Mazzucato) the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Knowledge. His new book Capitalism\, Alone was published in September 2019. Professor Milanovic obtained his Ph.D. in economics (1987) from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/economic-inequality-after-the-pandemic/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180555
CREATED:20211110T195529Z
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. Join us on Monday\, November 15 at 9:00 am ET\, for a discussion about German politics with opinion writer for Der Tagesspiegel Malte Lehming. .[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5016365739644%2FWN_-lq6n7sBTuaj3RQWJvil0A” css=”.vc_custom_1636574042700{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Malte Lehming works as a writer for the Tagesspiegel\, where he heads the opinion page. From late 2000 to 2005\, he was the newspaper’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the Tagesspiegel in 1991 as foreign policy editor — focusing on security policy\, transatlantic relations\, and the Middle East. From 1989 to 1991\, he worked as a personal assistant and speechwriter for former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Mr. Lehming studied philosophy\, German literature\, and European history in Hamburg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-23/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180555
CREATED:20211116T145520Z
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SUMMARY:Progress or Status Quo on Climate Change? Takeaways from COP26
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Over the past two weeks\, representatives from nearly 200 countries convened in Glasgow for COP26 to discuss new plans to tackle climate change. The conference was regarded as the best – and last – chance to save the earth from the catastrophic consequences of global warming. However\, many attendees\, analysts\, and observers believe it fell short. Although the countries agreed there is a problem\, few actionable solutions were hammered out. \nJoin us on November 18 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion with Bundestag Member Lisa Badum (The Greens)\, who attended COP26 as part of the German delegation. She will reflect on the climate deal which was reached and what it means for the future of climate change policy. This event is supported by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F2016370744426%2FWN_WsaCov_eQPWftl1TBwJRow” css=”.vc_custom_1637074475478{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Lisa Badum has been a Member of the German Bundestag since the autumn of 2017 for the constituency of Bamberg and for the whole of Upper Franconia. She is the spokeswoman for climate policy in the green parliamentary group. She is a member of the Environment Committee and Deputy Member of the Committee on Economic and Energy Affairs. From 2012 to 2017\, she worked in the civil energy department at NATURSTROM AG. She served as a research assistant and advisor to Bundestag Member Uwe Kekeritz (Alliance 90 / The Greens) from 2010-2013. She has a background in political science and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Bamberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/progress-or-status-quo-on-climate-change-takeaways-from-cop26/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211119T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180555
CREATED:20211116T145720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T145731Z
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SUMMARY:Plundered Treasure – And The Nazi Art Thief Who Stole It
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Between 1933 and 1945\, the Nazis developed and operated an elaborate procurement system for art which they had looted from Jews and other victims of persecution during the Third Reich. Works of art were confiscated\, and many art collectors were forced to sell below value. In 2000\, a report to the U.S. Congress by historian and Holocaust researcher Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos revealed the full extent of the theft: Some 600\,000 works of art were taken by the Nazis within the sphere of influence of the Germans – a third in Germany and Austria alone. Many still have not been recovered. \nIn his latest book\, Göring’s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World\, Dr. Petropoulos tells the story of Bruno Lohse\, one of the key art experts who helped the Nazis loot European Jews. Join the American Council on Germany for a conversation with Young Leader alumnus Jonathan Petropulos\, which will be led by Dr. Ronald J. Granieri\, Associate Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College and Templeton Education Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute\, who is also a Young Leader alumnus.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F1016370745713%2FWN_mb56i3hcSDmcGTF–HsccA” css=”.vc_custom_1637074605643{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos is an American historian who writes about National Socialism and the fate of art looted during World War II. Dr. Petropoulos is John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont\, California. \nHe began working on the subject of Nazi art looting and restitution in 1983 when he started his graduate work in history and art history at Harvard as a student of the late Richard M. Hunt\, Vice Chairman of the ACG. He is the author of several books on the subject. His most recent book is Göring’s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World. \nFrom 1998 to 2000\, Dr. Petropoulos served as Research Director for Art and Cultural Property on the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States\, where he helped draft the report\, Restitution and Plunder: The U.S. and Holocaust Victims’ Assets. In this capacity\, he supervised a staff of researchers who combed archives in the United States and Europe in order to understand better how representatives of the U.S. government (including the Armed Forces) handled the assets of Holocaust victims both during and after the war. As Research Director\, he provided expert testimony to the Select Committee on Culture\, Media and Sport in the U.K. House of Commons and to the Banking and Finance Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. \nDr. Ronald J. Granieri is Associate Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College and Templeton Education Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). \nA graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago and a former Federal Chancellor Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung\, Dr. Granieri is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer\, the CDU/CSU\, and the West\, 1949-1966 as well as articles on German history\, European-American relations\, the Cold War\, and contemporary politics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/plundered-treasure-and-the-nazi-art-thief-who-stole-it/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180555
CREATED:20211119T192145Z
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. \nJoin us on Monday\, November 22 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion on the latest developments in coalition negotiations\, the fight against COVID\, and more with Sumi Somoskanda\, Senior News Anchor at DW News (Deutsche Welle).[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F7016373495519%2FWN_GJiNOKtPQf2ZsmdrUYWXvg” css=”.vc_custom_1637349611490{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Sumi Somoskanda is currently a senior news anchor at DW News (Deutsche Welle)\, Germany’s international broadcaster. Sumi reports on Germany for various international publications\, including The Atlantic\, Foreign Policy\, Washington Post\, Al Jazeera\, Global Post\, Newsweek\, PRI\, and USA Today. She served as an editor at the Berlin Policy Journal\, Germany’s premiere English-language foreign affairs magazine. \nShe regularly moderates panels and conferences both in Germany and the US and lectures American university students at the CIEE Global Institute in Berlin. Sumi is an alumna of the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship program and part of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network. In addition to her native English\, she speaks fluent German and Spanish\, and conversational Tamil.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-24/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211123T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211123T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180555
CREATED:20211119T191252Z
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SUMMARY:The Evolving Humanitarian Crisis at Europe’s Door
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In recent months\, there has been an increase in the number of migrants trying to cross the border from Belarus into Poland – and with that the European Union. As the waves of people from Afghanistan\, Iraq\, Syria\, and other countries has spiked and winter weather has become more severe\, the situation is becoming more dire. European leaders have accused the government of Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenko of facilitating illegal border crossing into Poland – as well as Latvia and Lithuania – in retaliation for EU sanctions. Although Lukashenko denies these accusations\, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding as the 3\,000 to 4\,000 migrants stranded at the border are creating the most dramatic challenge to the EU’s borders since 2015\, when hundreds of thousands of migrants gathered in Turkey to enter Europe. \nJoin the American Council on Germany for a discussion about the crisis on the border with Belarus and how the EU and the transatlantic community can best respond with Dr. Jörg Forbrig\, Senior Fellow and Director for Central and Eastern Europe at The German Marshall Fund of the United States\, and Katsiaryna Shmatsina\, Fellow at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”register here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F9416373490367%2FWN_jHfrZXTAQCi2L8TpXXnyLg” css=”.vc_custom_1637349099278{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Jörg Forbrig is a Senior Fellow and the Director for Central and Eastern Europe in the German Marshall Fund’s Berlin office. His work focuses on Europe’s East broadly\, including the Eastern-most member countries of the European Union and NATO\, the EU’s Eastern neighborhood\, and Russia. In addition\, he leads GMF efforts to assist civil society in Belarus\, and he works closely with the Balkan Trust for Democracy and the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation to bolster democracy assistance to Central and Eastern Europe at large. Prior to joining GMF in 2002\, Dr. Forbrig worked as a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow at the Center for International Relations in Warsaw\, Poland. \nHe has been published widely on democracy\, civil society\, and Central and Eastern European affairs\, including the books Reclaiming Democracy (2007)\, Prospects for Democracy in Belarus (2006)\, and Revisiting Youth Political Participation (2005). He is also a regular contributor to major international media. Dr. Forbrig studied political science\, sociology\, and Eastern European affairs at universities in Germany\, Poland\, and Hungary. He holds a Ph.D. in social and political sciences from the European University Institute in Florence and a master’s in political science from Central European University in Budapest. He speaks English\, Russian\, Polish\, and Slovak in addition to his native German.\nKatsiaryna Shmatsina is a Fellow at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies\, where she focuses on foreign and security policy\, international risk\, Russia\, Eurasia\, and NATO. Previously\, she worked for the American Bar Association where she was involved with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)\, especially in projects on good governance and rule of law in UNDP in-country offices. She also served as a pro bono local expert on Belarus for the World Bank’s Doing Business and Women\, Business\, and the Law reports. \nIn the summer of 2019\, she was a research fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw. In 2018\, she was awarded a fellowship at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security\, Washington DC. In 2016\, she received a Civil Society Leadership Award from the Open Society Foundations. Ms. Shmatsina holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Syracuse University\, New York (2016) and a degree in law from Belarusian State University (2013). Apart from mother-tongue Belarusian\, she commands Russian\, English\, German\, and French[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-evolving-humanitarian-crisis-at-europes-door/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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SUMMARY:China’s Influence in Europe
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]China’s rapid global rise has created new challenges for the United States\, the European Union\, and individual European countries. As China’s economic and political footprint has expanded\, Beijing appears to provide an alternative to the West and offers opportunities for rapid economic development. But\, China also takes advantage of local vulnerabilities and weaknesses to exert influence. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is just one example of how Beijing is seeking greater economic\, political\, and soft power in Southeastern\, Central\, and Eastern Europe – where more favorable regulatory and economic conditions exist than in Western Europe. \nWhile China’s expanding footprint can bring socioeconomic opportunities\, it can also exacerbate governance shortfalls\, undermine political and economic stability\, and complicate the EU’s ability to reach consensus on key issues. Join the American Council on Germany for a discussion about China’s growing influence in Europe with independent journalist Melissa Chan and Dr. Mareike Ohlberg\, Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F8416383716482%2FWN_FDsJiuzdT2OgEhOSM1F6Xw” css=”.vc_custom_1638371741911{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Melissa Chan is an Emmy-nominated journalist based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She has reported everywhere from Cuba to Canada\, Mongolia to Moscow\, North and South Korea. These days she focuses on transnational issues\, often involving China’s influence beyond its borders. She has written for The New York Times where she was nominated for a Loeb Award — business journalism’s highest honor — and for The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, Time\, The Guardian\, Foreign Policy\, and more. As a contributor to the Vancouver-based Global Reporting Centre\, she investigates the complexities of global trade and its costs on ordinary people. \nAs a television journalist\, Ms. Chan takes viewers on investigative journeys through long-format news documentaries\, including the award-winning Fault Lines series. She has reported from Europe as a correspondent for VICE News Tonight\, and also presents European broadcaster DW’s news program on Asia. With Al Jazeera English\, she served as China correspondent before her expulsion from the country for the channel’s reports. Her work there received awards\, including two Human Rights Press Awards from Amnesty International and a citation from the Overseas Press Club. She was listed in Foreign Policy’s Pacific Power Index\, a list of 25 people shaping the future of US-China relations. \nDr. Mareike Ohlberg is a senior fellow in the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and leads the Stockholm China Forum. Before joining GMF\, she worked as an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies\, where she focused on China’s media and digital policies as well as the Chinese Communist Party’s influence campaigns in Europe. Prior to that\, she was an An Wang postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a postdoctoral fellow at Shih-Hsin University in Taipei. She spent several years living and working in Greater China. She is co-author of the book Hidden Hand: How the Communist Party of China is Reshaping the World (2020). Dr. Ohlberg has a doctoral degree in Chinese studies from the University of Heidelberg and a master’s degree in East Asian regional studies from Columbia University. She is a frequent commentator in the media on the global implications of China’s rise.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/chinas-influence-in-europe/
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin.\nJoin us on Monday\, December 6 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion on the latest developments in Berlin with Tom Nuttall\, Berlin Bureau Chief for The Economist.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4116383794970%2FWN_cHWu_G8iS6ap6ACML5qzbg” css=”.vc_custom_1638379564002{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Tom Nuttall has been The Economist‘s Berlin bureau chief since November 2018. Before that\, he spent four years based in Brussels writing the Charlemagne column. He has also worked as US west coast correspondent in Los Angeles\, and as an editor on the Europe desk in London. Before joining The Economist he worked as an editor at the European Council on Foreign Relations\, a think-tank\, and spent several years as a senior editor at Prospect magazine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-25/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T100000
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SUMMARY:Measuring the Pulse: German-American Relations on the Mend?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In late November\, a new survey on the German-American relationship conducted by the Pew Research Center and the Körber Stiftung was released. After elections in both countries and a transfer of power in the U.S. earlier this year\, the bilateral relationship appears to be on the mend. Large majorities in the U.S. and Germany believe that the relationship between their two countries is good. In a marked change from 2020\, Germans are now much more likely to name the U.S. as an important partner on a number of key issues – including the environment and trade. However\, despite an improvement in opinions about the relationship\, few Americans name Germany as their most important foreign policy partner. \nIn addition to focusing on the bilateral relationship\, the survey looks at German and American attitudes on how to best address the challenges posed by China\, Russia\, and Afghanistan; the impact of digitalization; and\, the use of military force. \nJoin the American Council on Germany for a discussion of the survey results with Julia Ganter\, the Editor of the Körber-Stiftung’s The Berlin Pulse\, and the Associate Director of Global Attitudes Research at the Pew Research Center Jacob Poushter – which will be moderated by ACG Board member Dr. Charles Kupchan\, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F7616384550086%2FWN_TJUhToPGT9eaWZg3kCfjbQ” css=”.vc_custom_1638455072936{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Julia Ganter is Program Manager for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung\, and the Editor of The Berlin Pulse\, the foundation’s annual foreign policy publication. \nPrior to joining the Körber-Stiftung\, she coordinated the Task Force for Protecting Europe from Economic Coercion at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). She gained previous work experience in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin\, the GIZ in Brasília\, the German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa)\, from NGO-work in Brazil and as editor of the monthly magazine Lateinamerika Nachrichten. \nMs. Ganter holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Free University of Berlin\, Humboldt University Berlin\, and the University of Potsdam. \nJacob Poushter is an associate director at Pew Research Center. He is an expert in international survey research and writes about international public opinion on a variety of topics\, including the international image of the United States and perceptions of global threats. He is also responsible for designing survey questionnaires\, managing survey projects\, analyzing data\, and developing topics for the annual Global Attitudes Survey. \nMr. Poushter received a master’s degree in international affairs from American University and a bachelor’s degree in history from Williams College. He is also an author of studies on global attitudes of cultural change\, views of the American-German relationship\, and contrasting opinions among elites and the American public. He regularly talks about the Center’s findings in print and broadcast media and has been featured on Bloomberg TV and CTV\, as well as in other international media outlets. He has also traveled to Canada\, Europe\, and Asia to explain the Center’s work and has participated in numerous presentations and panels in Washington\, DC. \nModerator: ACG Board Member Dr. 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. From 2014 to 2017\, he 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/measuring-the-pulse-german-american-relations-on-the-mend/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211210T110000
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SUMMARY:Beyond Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’: Internal and External Challenges to Democracy at Home and Abroad
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Later this week\, President Joe Biden will convene more than 100 world leaders as well as representatives from civil society and the private sector for the highly anticipated virtual “Summit for Democracy.” This online event is the first of two proposed gatherings and focuses on “renewing democracy in the United States and around the world.” Holding the summit is a major step in meeting one of Biden’s main campaign promises\, but it is not free of controversy. How much can such a meeting actually achieve? \nJoin the American Council on Germany on Friday\, December 10 at 11 am ET (5 pm CET)\, for a discussion about the internal and external challenges to democracy in Europe\, the United States\, and around the world with Dr. Frances Brown\, Co-Director and Senior Fellow in the Democracy\, Conflict\, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, and Ralf Fücks\, Managing Director of the Center for Liberal Modernity in Berlin. We’ll also hear what they hope comes out of the “Democracy Summit.” \nThis event is supported by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F2816388230436%2FWN_Y2uPgdOrRBmiOWK8YV5anA” css=”.vc_custom_1638823080256{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Frances Z. Brown is a senior fellow and co-director of the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy\, Conflict\, and Governance Program. She previously worked at the White House\, USAID\, and in non-governmental organizations\, and writes extensively on conflict\, governance\, and U.S. foreign policy. \nIn her last role before leaving government\, Dr. Brown served as director for democracy and fragile states on the White House National Security Council (NSC) staff\, where she helped manage policy processes on democracy support\, key political transitions\, and post-conflict stabilization efforts. Serving in both the Obama and Trump administrations\, she also convened a fragile states interagency committee\, aimed at elevating comparative insights on conflict into policy deliberations. \nPrior to the NSC\, Dr. Brown served at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Transition Initiatives\, managing stabilization and political transition programs in Afghanistan\, the Middle East\, and Africa from the field and Washington. Previous research roles include fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations\, Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies\, the U.S. Institute of Peace\, as well as her doctoral work at Oxford\, which examined donors’ bottom-up state-building and stabilization programs in conflict-affected states. Other experience outside of government includes two years in Beirut\, Lebanon; a year at the Kabul-based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit; consulting for the Quadrennial Defense Review; shorter project-management roles in Iraq\, Jordan\, Kuwait\, and Pakistan; and political risk forecasting. \nShe has published field research projects on Afghanistan stabilization and subnational governance with the U.S. Institute of Peace\, on Syria stabilization with Carnegie\, and shorter analyses in the American Interest\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Christian Science Monitor\, the International Herald Tribune\, and elsewhere. On television\, Brown has commented on U.S. foreign policy for BBC World News\, ABC News (Australia)\, Al-Jazeera\, and elsewhere. She is a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project and a prior term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \nRalf Fücks is Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the Center for Liberal Moder­nity\, fol­low­ing 21 years as Pres­i­dent of the Hein­rich-Böll-Stiftung\, the polit­i­cal foun­da­tion asso­ci­ated with the Greens. At the center of his work were green eco­nom­ics and eco­log­i­cal inno­va­tion\, migra­tion\, the future of Europe\, and inter­na­tional pol­i­tics. Before that\, he was co-chair of the German Green Party (1989/​​90) and Senator of Envi­ron­ment and City Devel­op­ment in Bremen. \nMr. Fücks is con­sid­ered to be an innovative thinker\, seeking cross-party dis­course. He is an advo­cate for liberal ecology pol­i­tics\, focus­ing on inno­va­tion rather than pro­hi­bi­tion. He is a regular con­trib­u­tor to national and inter­na­tional media and co-author to numer­ous books. In 1991\, he was editor of the book “Sind die Grünen noch zu retten?” (Is There a Future for the Green Party?). In 2013 his book “Intel­li­gent Wachsen – Die grüne Rev­o­lu­tion” (Smart Growth – The Green Rev­o­lu­tion) was pub­lished in German\, fol­lowed by English\, Polish and Russian edi­tions. His second book\, “Frei­heit vertei­di­gen – wie wir den Kampf um die offene Gesellschaft gewin­nen” (Defend­ing Freedom – How We Can Win the Fight For An Open Society) is dealing with the chal­lenge liberal democ­racy is facing at home and glob­ally. In Sep­tem­ber 2019\, the anthol­ogy “Soziale Mark­twirtschaft ökol­o­gisch erneuern” (“Green­ing the Social Market Economy”) was pub­lished by Fücks together with Thomas Köhler at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/beyond-bidens-democracy-summit-internal-and-external-challenges-to-democracy-at-home-and-abroad/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211213T090000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin.\nJoin us on Monday\, December 13 at 9:00 am ET for a discussion on the latest developments in Berlin with Matthew Karnitschnig\, Chief European Correspondent for Politico.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F1716389882899%2FWN_hfVE7W6-RAOITyL7GOIGWA” css=”.vc_custom_1638988332624{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Matthew Karnitschnig is POLITICO’s Chief Europe Correspondent\, based in Berlin. He joined the publication in 2015 from the Wall Street Journal\, where he spent 15 years in a variety of positions as a reporter and editor in the U.S. and Europe. \nIn a career spanning two decades\, Mr. Karnitschnig has been on the front lines of some of the defining political and economic stories of our time. In 2008\, he covered the fall of Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis that ensued. He was part of a team of Journal reporters that won a Gerald Loeb Award and was named a Pulitzer finalist for National Reporting in 2009. \nHe subsequently spearheaded the WSJ’s coverage of the eurozone debt crisis as the paper’s Germany bureau chief and European economics editor. He led the team that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2011 and won an Overseas Press Club award in 2012. \nMr. Karnitschnig previously worked as a journalist for Business Week\, Reuters\, and Bloomberg. \nThe son of an Austrian father and American mother\, he grew up in Arizona\, where he got his start reporting as a stringer for the Phoenix Gazette during high school.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-26/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211217T110000
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SUMMARY:Germany’s New Government is in Place: What will it do now?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Merkel era is over. Last week a new government led by the center-left Social Democrats – together with the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats – took office. How much of a break will this be from the conservative-led governments over the past 16 years under the leadership of Angela Merkel? \nThe new government made up of three parties exemplifies continuity and change. As the coalition agreement shows\, we can expect consensus and stability – but this government also wants to go in new directions and address important challenges facing the country. This government is likely to be more progressive and future-oriented than its predecessor. \nJoin us on December 17 at 11:00 am ET for an online discussion about the new German government with the Political Editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Stefan Kornelius.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6916395003331%2FWN_1DY0sIE7Tm-DMreovCZuaw” css=”.vc_custom_1639500373811{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Stefan Kornelius is the Political Editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Previously he served as Foreign Editor of the paper for nearly 20 years. In his reporting career\, he has covered Germany’s Christian Democratic Party (CDU)\, the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl\, and defense issues in Europe. He served as Berlin Bureau Chief\, and from 1996 to 1999 he was the paper’s Washington correspondent. Prior to that he was a correspondent in Bonn. \nHis biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel\, entitled Angela Merkel\, the Chancellor and her World\, has been translated into 13 languages. Mr. Kornelius is a graduate of the Henri-Nannen-Journalistenschule and studied in Bonn and at the London School of Economics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-new-government-is-in-place-what-will-it-do-now/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211220T090000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin.\nJoin us on Monday\, December 20 at 9:00 am ET for the last kaffeepause of the year with ACG Young Leader alumnus Matthias Deiß\, Deputy Director of ARD’s television studio in Berlin.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here ” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4816395782411%2FWN_u6qXUGEiQjmzfmOPhd_24w” css=”.vc_custom_1639578333851{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Matthias Deiß is the Deputy Director of ARD’s Hauptstadtstudio in Berlin and deputy editor-in-chief of television. From 2018 to 2021\, he served as the editorial director for ARD’s political magazine Kontraste. Prior to this\, he worked from 2012 to 2017 as a TV correspondent with ARD. He studied communications and political science at the University of Munich and at the German School of Journalism in Munich.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-27/
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. \nJoin us on Monday\, January 10 at 9:00 am ET for the first Kaffeepause of the year with Bloomberg Opinion columnist Andreas Kluth. In addition to talking about what is going on in Berlin\, he’ll also share his outlook for 2022.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6016414780924%2FWN_YKnRO0GUSOe-vjwPEXqx0g” css=”.vc_custom_1641478129415{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Andreas Kluth is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. Between March of 2017 and February of 2019\, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global\, the English-language edition of Germany’s leading business newspaper. For the two decades before that\, he wrote for The Economist — in London\, Hong Kong\, Silicon Valley\, Los Angeles\, and Berlin.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-28/
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SUMMARY:Negotiating with Russia: What if the Talks Fail?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Earlier this week\, senior U.S. and Russian officials held talks in Geneva. Representatives from the two countries are slated to participate in a NATO-Russian Council meeting in Brussels on Wednesday and will come together again at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Vienna on Thursday. \nThese meetings come at a time when relations between Russia and the United States are fraught. Tensions stem largely from the situation on the border with Ukraine\, where Russia has positioned thousands of troops. U.S. intelligence sources believe that Moscow is planning a military offensive\, but Russia denies any intent to invade Ukraine. The situation is further complicated because Russia sent troops into neighboring Kazakhstan last week after the oil-producing former Soviet republic was hit by a wave of unrest. \nIn two conversations over the past five weeks\, U.S. President Joe Biden warned Putin that Russia would face unprecedented economic sanctions in the event of further aggression against Ukraine. The Group of Seven nations and the European Union have also threatened “massive consequences.” Join the ACG for a discussion with Russia experts Dr. Stefan Meister and Dr. Angela Stent about this week’s talks with Russia.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5616419175033%2FWN_NBALq5PHTZC7__9azMObnQ” css=”.vc_custom_1641917588520{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Stefan Meister has been the head of the German Council on Foreign Relations’ Program on International Order and Democracy since August 2021. From 2019 until then\, he worked as director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s South Caucasus Office. \nFrom 2017 to 2019\, Dr. Meister was head of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe\, Russia\, and Central Asia at DGAP\, where he had previously headed its program for Eastern Europe\, Russia\, and Central Asia. Before that\, he was a senior policy fellow in the Wider Europe Team at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in Berlin and London. In the 2015/16 term\, Dr. Meister was a visiting fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington\, DC\, where he wrote on Russian disinformation and propaganda. He has served as an election observer for the OSCE in post-Soviet countries several times and worked on conflict transformation and institution building in post-Soviet countries. \nDr. Meister is co-author of Geopolitics and Security: A New Strategy for the South Caucasus (KAS/DGAP/GIP\, 2018)\, The Russia File (Brookings\, 2018)\, Eastern Voices (Center for Transatlantic Relations/DGAP\, 2017)\, and The Eastern Question (Brookings\, 2016). \nHe studied international relations and East European history in Jena\, Leipzig\, and Nizhni Novgorod and holds a Ph.D. from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with a thesis on the transformation of Russian higher education and research system. \nDr. Angela Stent (1982 ACG Young Leader) is Senior Adviser to the Center for Eurasian\, Russian\, and East European Studies at Georgetown University where she is also Professor Emerita of Government and Foreign Service. She is also a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 2004-06 she served as the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999 to 2001\, she served in the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. \nDr. Stent’s publications include: From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations\, 1955-1980 (Cambridge University Press\, 1981); Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification\, The Soviet Collapse and The New Europe (Princeton University Press\, 1999); The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press\, 2014)\, for which she won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon prize for the best book on the practice of American Diplomacy. Her most recent book is Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest (Twelve Books\, 2019) for which she won the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s prize for the best book on U.S-Russian Relations. \nShe was a member of the senior advisory panel for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe for Admiral James Stavridis and General Philip Breedlove. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a contributing editor to Survival and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies\, World Policy Journal\, Internationale Politik\, and Mirovaia Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnie Otnosheniie. She has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Russia and Central Asia. She was a trustee of the Eurasia Foundation. Dr. Stent received her bachelor’s from Cambridge University\, her Master’s of Science with distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science\, and her master’s and doctorate from Harvard University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/negotiating-with-russia-what-if-the-talks-fail/
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SUMMARY:Russia’s Threat to Ukraine: The West Responds
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed crosshairs on Ukraine\, a country he sees as linked to Russia and the people of Ukraine as “one people” with Russians. To back up this fixation with repairing a “historic injustice” Moscow has amassed a force of over 100\,000 troops and supporting armor and aircraft along the border with Ukraine. Leading the West’s response\, President Biden has threatened “massive consequences” if Russia invades Ukraine. \nAmerican and Russian diplomats are meeting this week. However\, the lines are drawn: Putin is demanding an end to NATO’s eastward expansion\, include Ukraine\, and Biden and the West say there will be a very high economic price to pay as well as increased deployments on NATO’s eastern flank. \nWhat is the context for this provocation and what are the U.S. and Allies prepared to do? Join the American Council on Germany and the Tennessee World Affairs Council for a discussion with former ACG Board member Ambassador John Kornblum about the crisis. Joining us from Berlin\, he will also discuss how we got to where we are and what the possible courses of action for the U.S. and Europe might be. The conversation will be led by ACG Young Leader alumnus Dr. Thomas Schwartz\, Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. This event is held in cooperation with the Belmont University Center for International Business and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tnwac.org%2Fcalendar%2Frussias-threat-to-ukraine-the-west-responds-ambassador-john-kornblum-on-u-s-europe-response%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1641925579366{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Ambassador John C. Kornblum has a long record of service in the United States and Europe both as a diplomat and as a businessman. He is recognized as an eminent expert on U.S.-European political and economic relations\, in particular in central and eastern Europe. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001. Before that\, he occupied a number of high-level diplomatic posts\, including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs\, special envoy for the Dayton Peace Process\, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Process)\, Deputy U.S. Ambassador to NATO\, and U.S. Minister and Deputy Commandant of Forces in divided Berlin. From 2001 to 2009\, he was Chairman of Lazard Freres Germany. He currently serves as Senior Counsellor to the international law firm Noerr LLP and as a senior advisor to the worldwide consultancy Accenture. Ambassador Kornblum has also served on a number of Supervisory and Advisory Boards\, including those of ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG\, Bayer AG\, Russell Reynolds\, and Motorola Europe. He is a member of the Boards of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany\, the American Academy in Berlin\, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin\, and of numerous nonprofit organizations on both sides of the Atlantic\, and he is a former ACG Board member. He received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1964\, and he has been the recipient of many awards\, including a Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit from Germany and an Order of Merit from Austria. \nDr. Thomas Schwartz (1989 ACG Young Leader) is a historian of the foreign relations of the United States\, with related interests in American politics\, the history of international relations\, Modern European history\, and biography. His most recent book is Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography (Hill and Wang\, 2020).  Earlier in his career\, Schwartz was the author of America’s Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany (Harvard\, 1991)\, which was translated into German. This book received the Stuart Bernath Book Prize of the Society of American Foreign Relations\, and the Harry S. Truman Book Award\, given by the Truman Presidential Library. He is also the author of Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (Harvard\, 2003)\, which examined the Johnson Administration’s policy toward Europe and assessed the impact of the war in Vietnam on its other foreign policy objectives. He is the co-editor with Matthias Schulz of The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter\, (Cambridge University Press\, 2009). \nProfessor Schwartz has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, the German Historical Society\, the Norwegian Nobel Institute\, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, and the Center for the Study of European Integration. He has served as President of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. He served on the United States Department of State’s Historical Advisory Committee as the representative of the Organization of American Historians from 2005-2008. Professor Schwartz received The Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching on April 3\, 2013\, at the Spring Faculty Assembly\, Vanderbilt University. In 2008 Professor Schwartz received the Annual Alumni Education Award from the Vanderbilt Alumni Association. Schwartz is the recipient of the 2008 Book Award by Chi Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order. This award is given to a faculty member who has been particularly influential in the lives and education of members of KAO. Professor Schwartz presented\, “The Arab Spring: Revolution in the Middle East\,” on April 19\, 2011\, as part of the Samuel L. Shannon Distinguished Lecture Series at Tennessee State University. Professor Schwartz has also presented lectures for the OAH Distinguished Lecturers Program. \nProfessor Schwartz taught for five years at Harvard University and has been teaching at Vanderbilt since 1990.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/russias-threat-to-ukraine-the-west-responds/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T090000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week\, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. Join us on Tuesday\, January 18 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with journalist Miriam Hollstein\, Chief Political Reporter for FUNKE Zentralredaktion.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6616420060401%2FWN_v7WjTGYAT-uBm5aldyRTeA” css=”.vc_custom_1642006075091{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Miriam Hollstein serves as the Chief Reporter for FUNKE Zentralredaktion. She wrote for the Berliner Zeitung while still a student and worked as an editor for Internationale Politik. She worked as a foreign reporter for the Welt am Sonntag\, and from 2006-2014 was a WELT-Gruppe’s domestic policy editor and reporter. From 2015-2020 she worked for the Bild am Sonntag\, first as domestic policy and then from 2018 as chief reporter politics. Her reporting brought her into regular contact with the office of the German Chancellor. Since March 2020 she works as a freelance writer and moderator. \nIn 2009 she published the first graphic biography of Angela Merkel\, entitled “Miss Tschörmanie\,” together with illustrator Heiko Sakurai. She appears regularly on the German news program „Phoenix“\, where she speaks on political and societal issues. She regularly travels internationally for reporting assignments. In addition\, she was a 2005 Marshall Memorial Fellow\, a 2008 ACG McCloy Fellow\, and was recognized in 2015 by the DEFA Stiftung (German Film Corporation Foundation) for her contribution to the preservation of German film heritage.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-29/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T093000
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SUMMARY:Berlin Keynote from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Atlantik-Brücke and its partners\, the American Council on Germany\, Aspen Institute Germany\, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States are honored to host U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken for a keynote on the transatlantic partnership. We cordially invite you to join our live stream for this exceptional occasion. \nThursday\, January 20\, 2022\n3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. (CET)\n9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. (ET)\nLivestream[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Watch Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.contentflow.de%2Fatlantik-bruecke%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1642601643609{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/berlin-keynote-from-u-s-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220121T100000
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SUMMARY:Germany's New Government: A View from the Opposition
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With a new government coming up to speed in Berlin\, there is no shortage of domestic policy issues on the agenda. From energy and the environment to public health and Covid response and from infrastructure and digitalization to fiscal policy\, there is a lot to do. But\, what is the view from the opposition? \nJoin the American Council on Germany and the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung for a virtual discussion with Markus Blume\, Secretary General of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4716421129881%2FWN_6ArqF3HsQWKWOp8y2NyrJg” css=”.vc_custom_1642113023658{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Markus Blume has been a Member of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2008 and the Secretary General of the Christian Social Union (CSU) since 2018. He has also served as the Chairman of the CSU Economic Commission since 2011 and was the editor-in-chief of the new CSU party platform which was presented in 2016. Mr. Blume first studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich\, and then political science at the Bavaria School of Public Policy Munich.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-new-government-a-view-from-the-opposition/
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