American Council On Germany

Global Challenges 60 Years after the Élysée Treaty
2023-01-26 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Following centuries of rivalry and conflict, France and Germany sent a strong signal of post-war reconciliation and laid the foundation for close cooperation to support European integration when President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed the Élysée Treaty on January 22, 1963. Six decades later, the six-member European Economic Community has grown to a European Union with 27 member states, East and West Germany have unified, the United Kingdom has joined (1973) and left (2020) the European club, the Soviet Union has dissolved, and Russia has invaded Ukraine. In this transformed world, the Franco-German alliance remains important, but it faces new challenges.
This weekend, President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet before the pair lead a joint cabinet meeting to mark the anniversary of the Elysée Treaty. How can the Franco-German alliance navigate the changing global order – and what lessons can be drawn 60 years after signing the treaty? Join the American Council on Germany and the French-American Foundation for a virtual discussion with Ambassador Antje Leendertse, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations, and Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations. Ambassador Antje Leendertse has served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York since September 2021. Prior to this, she was State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office starting in 2019, after serving as Political Director in the Foreign Office from 2018 to 2019. She has served as a Permanent Representative before, in her capacity as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Office of the United Nations and the other international organizations in Geneva from 2017 to 2018. Before that, she was Ambassador and Head of the Task Force for the 2016 OSCE Chairmanship from 2015 to 2017; Ambassador and Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control in the Foreign Office from 2014 to 2015; and Ambassador and Director for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia in the Foreign Office from 2012 to 2014. Before that, Ambassador Leendertse served as Head of Division for the Western Balkans in the Foreign Office from 2009 to 2012. She entered the Foreign Service in the seminal year of 1990. She holds a master’s degree in medieval and modern history, Romance languages, economics, and philosophy from the University of Cologne.
Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière took office as Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in New York on 8th July 2019. A graduate of the “Condorcet” class of the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA), he was previously Director General of Political and Security Affairs at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (2014-2019). He also served as Assistant Secretary for the United Nations, International Organizations, Human Rights and Francophonie (2011-2014) and Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in New York (2009-2010).
Ambassador de Rivière served in the offices of two Foreign Ministers: first, as Counselor for Economic Affairs, Asia and North America in the office of Dominique de Villepin (2002-2004), then as Counselor for International Economic issues, Asia and Americas in the office of Michel Barnier (2004-2005).
Nicolas de Rivière was conferred the insignia of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in July 2015.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2023-01-30 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, January 30, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Matthew Karnitschnig, Chief Europe Correspondent for Politico. 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.
In 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.
He 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.
Mr. Karnitschnig previously worked as a journalist for BusinessWeek, Reuters, and Bloomberg.
The son of an Austrian father and an American mother, he grew up in Arizona, where he got his start reporting as a stringer for the Phoenix Gazette during high school.

One Year On: Germany’s Foreign Policy Reckoning After Ukraine
2023-02-02 13:00 - 14:30
On 27 February 2022, three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a set of transformative measures for Germany’s foreign and defense policy. One year on, to what extent has the war in Ukraine changed not only German politics and public opinion but that of its allies? Looking ahead, how will the “Zeitenwende” impact relations with actors like Russia and China?
Join the American Council on Germany, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Körber-Stiftung, Pew Research Center, and the German Embassy in Washington for an in-depth review of what we can expect from Germany’s implementation of the foreign and defense policy changes that Chancellor Scholz announced almost a year ago. Julia Ganter, Editor of “The Berlin Pulse” for the Körber-Stiftung, and Jacob Poushter, Associate Director of the Pew Research CenterPew Research Center, will briefly share insights on German and U.S. public opinion based on the survey results of the annual report The Berlin Pulse. A panel discussion will follow with Ambassador Emily Haber, German Ambassador to the United States; Ambassador Oksana Markarova, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States; Dan Baer, Senior Vice President for Policy Research and Director of the Europe Program at Carnegie; and Sophia Besch, Fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and moderated by ACG President and CEO Dr. Steven E. Sokol.
This is a hybrid event and will be held in Washington, DC.

Dan Baer is Senior Vice President for Policy Research and Director of the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Before, he was the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Sophia Besch is a Fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focuses on European foreign and defense policy.
Julia Ganter is the Program Manager and Editor of The Berlin Pulse. She is also responsible for Asia activities in the International Affairs Department of the Körber-Stiftung.
Ambassador Emily Haber has been the German Ambassador to the United States since June 2018. Before her transfer to Washington, DC, she served in various leadership functions at the Foreign Office in Berlin.
Ambassador Oksana Markarova is a Ukrainian politician and the current Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States. Before being appointed Ambassador, she was the Minister of Finance of Ukraine.
Jacob Poushter is an Associate Director at Pew Research Center. His focus is on international survey research, including public opinion on the international image of the United States and perceptions of global threats.
Dr. Steven E. Sokol (moderator) is the President and CEO of the American Council on Germany. He served as President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh from July 2010 until April 2015. Before that, he was Vice President and Director of Programs at the American Council on Germany.

Canceled - Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2023-02-06 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, February 6, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Paul-Anton Krüger, Parliamentary Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Paul-Anton Krüger has been the Parliamentary Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of the Süddeutsche Zeitung since the 2021 federal election. Previously he reported on political affairs and served as Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department with a focus on the Middle East and international security for three years. Before that, he spent four years in Cairo and was a correspondent covering large parts of the Arab world and Iran.
After graduating from the Alte Landesschule in Korbach, he studied journalism in Berlin and Munich. In August 2005, he joined the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a volunteer, worked as an editor from 2008, and as head of the foreign policy department from 2011. In the fall of 2007, Mr. Krüger was a guest editor at the Chicago Tribune as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, the German-American journalism scholarship of the International Journalism Programs e.V.

A Rocky Road Ahead? German-American Friendshoring in an Era of Systemic Rivalry
2023-02-14 07:30 - 09:00
The ACG and the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) will hold an official MSC side event with Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, and Member of the German Bundestag (Greens); Lars Klingbeil, Co-Chairman, Social Democratic Party of Germany, German Bundestag; Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Deputy Chairman, Free Democratic Party Parliamentary Group, German Bundestag; and Governor Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany; and others.

Leveraging Innovation and Technology for National Security
2023-02-16 18:00 - 20:00
The ACG will host a discussion on hybrid war in the 21st century followed by a reception with Wendy R. Anderson, Senior Vice President, Federal, National Security at Palantir Technologies; Liesyl Franz, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Cyberspace Security in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy; Christopher Sharrock, Vice President of United Nations and International Organizations at Microsoft; and Ambassador Kurt Volker, President and Founder of Alliance Strategic Advisors, LLC.

Endless War in Ukraine and Global Security
2023-02-17 08:30 - 10:00
The ACG and KPMG International will host a breakfast briefing with Jane Harman, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita of the Wilson Center and former Member of Congress, and Lieutenant General Ben Hodges; Senior Advisor at Human Rights First and Retired Commanding General of the United States Army Europe; and moderated by Ambassador John B. Emerson, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Vice Chairman at Capital Group International and Chairman of the American Council on Germany.

The Russian-Ukraine War and European Security: Defense and Deterrence 2023
2023-02-19 07:30 - 09:00
In cooperation with the Aspen Institute Germany, Berlin Dialogue, and the German-American Exchange, the ACG will host an off-the-record discussion with Heather Conley, President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States; NATO Secretary General Mircea Geona; Ambassador Oleksii Makeiev, Ukrainian Embassy Berlin; and Minister of State Tobias Lindner, Federal Foreign Office.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Munich?
2023-02-21 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Tuesday, February 21, at 9:00 am ET for a special Kaffeepause following the Munich Security Conference with Steven Erlanger, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe for The New York Times. Steven Erlanger is the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe for The New York Times, a position he assumed in 2017. He is based in Brussels.
Mr. Erlanger was previously the Bureau Chief in London from 2013 to 2017; in Paris from 2008 to 2013; in Jerusalem from 2004 to 2008; in Berlin from 2001 to 2002; in Prague from 1999 to 2001; in Moscow from 1994 to 1996; and in Bangkok, Thailand, from 1988 to 1991.
Mr. Erlanger has also served as the newspaper’s Editor of cultural news from 2002 to 2004, as the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Washington from 1996 to 1999, and as a Moscow Correspondent from 1992 to 1994. He joined The Times in 1987 as a metro reporter.
Before coming to The Times, Mr. Erlanger worked for The Boston Globe for 11 years. At The Globe, he was a European Correspondent, based in London from 1983 to 1987, and the Deputy National and Foreign Editor for three years before that. He also served as Assistant National Editor and Assistant Foreign Editor and reported from Eastern Europe, Canada, and revolutionary Iran.
From 1975 to 1983, Mr. Erlanger was a teaching fellow at Harvard University, first in the College and then at the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He also was the assistant editor of the Nieman Reports, the journal of Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, in 1975.
Mr. Erlanger shared the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series about Russia, and was part of a team awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his work on Al Qaeda. In 2016, Mr. Erlanger was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur by the French government for his long career in journalism. He shared and received the American Society of News Editors’ Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline reporting in 2001 for his work in the former Yugoslavia. He received the German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize in 2000 for excellence and originality in reporting and analyzing European and transatlantic affairs and the Robert Livingston Award for International Reporting in 1981 for a series of articles about Eastern Europe.
Mr. Erlanger graduated from the Taft School in Watertown, Conn., and received an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College in 1974. He majored in political philosophy in the government department. He also studied Russian as a senior fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford.
Mr. Erlanger has published articles in The Economist, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The New Republic, The Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, the Columbia Journalism Review, and other publications. He wrote a monograph, “The Colonial Worker in Boston, 1775,” for the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1975.

One Year Later: Russia’s War in Ukraine, Germany’s Policy Pivot, and Implications for Transatlantic Relations
2023-02-21 12:00 - 14:00
The Chicago Warburg Chapter and the University of Chicago International House will host a discussion and luncheon wth Metin Hakverdi, Member of the Bundestag (SPD). Metin Hakverdi joined the Social Democratic Party in 2002 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013. He serves on the Bundestag’s Committee on European Union Affairs and on the Budget Committee. He is the Chairman of the USA/North America Working Group within the SPD Parliamentary Group and a member of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group in the German Bundestag. Before being elected to the Bundestag, Mr. Hakverdi was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013, where he was on the Budget Committee and the Committee of Public Companies and Assets.
Mr. Hakverdi attended high school in Simi Valley, California, in 1985/86 and studied law at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel and Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. He was a distinguished visitor at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in 2019 and a 2020 John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard’s Center for European Studies (CES). He is a member of the Atlantik-Brücke e.V.

One Year Later: Russia’s War in Ukraine, Germany’s Policy Pivot, and Implications for Transatlantic Relations
2023-02-23 18:00 - 19:30
The American Council on Germany, Deutsches Haus at NYU, and NYU’s The Center for European and Mediterranean will host a discussion and reception with Metin Hakverdi, Member of the Bundestag (SPD). Metin Hakverdi joined the Social Democratic Party in 2002 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013. He serves on the Bundestag’s Committee on European Union Affairs and the Budget Committee. He is the Chairman of the USA/North America Working Group within the SPD Parliamentary Group and a German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group member in the German Bundestag. Before being elected to the Bundestag, Mr. Hakverdi was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013, where he was on the Budget Committee and the Committee of Public Companies and Assets.
Mr. Hakverdi attended high school in Simi Valley, California, in 1985/86 and studied law at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel and Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. He was a distinguished visitor at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in 2019 and a 2020 John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard’s Center for European Studies (CES). He is a member of Atlantik-Brücke e.V.

Understanding Germany: One Year After the Zeitenwende
2023-02-27 11:00 - 12:00
Three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addressed a special session of the Bundestag on Sunday, February 27. In his Zeitenwende speech, he laid out a set of transformative – and ambitious – measures for Germany’s foreign, security, and energy policies. The speech was perceived as a major turning point for Germany – and for the security architecture of Europe. One year later, the demand for German leadership is more significant than ever.
As we mark the anniversary of the speech, there are a host of open questions, including: To what degree has the war in Ukraine changed not only German politics and public opinion, but that of its allies? How should European stakeholders be involved in Russia’s aggression in Ukraine? What is the future security architecture of Europe? How will the Zeitenwende impact relations with actors like Russia and China?
To address these questions, join us for a virtual discussion with ACG Young Leader alumna Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller. She is an expert on German, European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy.

Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller (1993 ACG Young Leader) is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Transatlantic Relations at the Brookings Institution. She held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress from October 2019 to March 2020 and served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings from 2014 to 2019.
Prior to working at Brookings, she was a senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), where she directed the influential Transatlantic Trends survey program. She also managed the “New Power, New Responsibility” project. Her areas of expertise include: trans-Atlantic relations; German foreign policy; NATO; the European Union’s foreign, security, and defense policy; international law; and human rights.
Dr. Stelzenmüller is the former director of GMF’s Berlin office. From 1994 to 2005, she was defense and international security editor in the political section of the German weekly DIE ZEIT; previously, she had covered human rights issues, war crimes tribunals, and humanitarian crises. From 1988 to 1989, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. She has also been a GMF campus fellow at Grinnell College in Iowa, a Woodrow Wilson Center public policy scholar in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Remarque Forum — a conference series of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
Dr. Stelzenmüller’s essays and articles, in both German and English, have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Washington Post and Süddeutsche Zeitung. She writes a monthly column in the Financial Times. Her dissertation, “Direkte Demokratie in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika,” was published in 1994 by Nomos. She is also a frequent commentator on American and European radio and television, including PBS Newshour, National Public Radio, and the BBC. Stelzenmüller is an honorary governor of the Ditchley Foundation and a fellow of the Royal Swedish Society for War Sciences. Dr. Stelzenmüller holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn (1992), a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1988), and a law degree from the University of Bonn (1985).

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2023-03-06 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, March 6, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Paul-Anton Krüger, Parliamentary Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Paul-Anton Krüger has been the Parliamentary Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of the Süddeutsche Zeitung since the 2021 federal election. Previously he reported on political affairs and served as Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department, focusing on the Middle East and international security for three years. Before that, he spent four years in Cairo and was a correspondent covering large parts of the Arab world and Iran.
After graduating from the Alte Landesschule in Korbach, he studied journalism in Berlin and Munich. In August 2005, he joined the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a volunteer, worked as an editor from 2008, and as head of the foreign policy department from 2011. In the fall of 2007, Mr. Krüger was a guest editor at the Chicago Tribune as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, the German-American journalism scholarship of the International Journalism Programs e.V.

Streaming Boom and the Rise of German Talent
2023-03-07 11:00 - 12:00
Edward Berger’s German-language feature film “All Quiet On The Western Front” has proven to be a run-away sensation for Netflix since it was launched on the streaming platform last fall. It ranks fourth on the list of the most popular non-English language films on Netflix and has been in the streamer’s own top 10 in over 91 countries – including Germany, UK, US, Australia, France, Mexico, and South Korea. The film won seven prizes – including best picture – at the British Academy Film Awards last month and has been nominated for nine Oscars. The film offers a visceral depiction of life and death in the World War I trenches based on Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel and comes at a time when much of the world is gripped by the war in Ukraine.
What accounts for the success of this film? How has the entertainment industry changed with streaming services? And why do German films and series play such a major role on streaming services? To discuss these questions and the renaissance of German talent in front of and behind the camera, join the American Council on Germany, the German Film Office, and the Goethe Institut for a discussion with Sasha Bühler, the woman behind bringing “All Quiet” to Netflix. She serves as Director of International Films at Netflix. Sasha Bühler joined Netflix as the Director of International Films in December 2019. She started her career in production, first in news, then across documentaries, animation, and feature films. This was followed by positions as Head of Acquisitions at SquareOne Entertainment and the Munich Film Academy (HHF). Her most recent position was Head of Acquisitions and International Co-Productions at Constantin Film for eleven years.
Ms. Bühler grew up in the United States, graduated from Vassar College, and then lived in Germany for 30 years before moving to London for her current position. Recently she relocated to Berlin to spearhead the entire DACH film production for Netflix. She is active in several women’s networks and is a regular lecturer on women’s issues.

What’s Feminist about Germany’s Feminist Foreign Policy?
2023-03-08 11:00 - 12:00
On March 1, the German Federal Foreign Office released its framework for a Feminist Foreign Policy. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Economic Cooperation and Development Minister Svenja Schulze gave a joint statement saying that more equal societies suffer less from hunger and poverty and are, therefore, more stable. The new guidelines state that Germany will lobby to ensure that basic human rights such as access to food, healthcare, education, and security are more in focus globally, that women are better represented, and that Germany’s development funds are allocated to more projects that tackle gender inequality.
Coming from Germany, this framework gives fresh momentum to the feminist foreign policy movement, which was pioneered by a leftist Swedish government in 2014. But, what does a Feminist Foreign Policy actually mean? How can it be implemented? And, how does it differ from a values-oriented foreign policy? What does it look like in practice when addressing the war in Ukraine or the situation in Iran?
To address these questions, join us on International Women’s Day for a virtual discussion with Barbara Mittelhammer. She is is a Berlin-based independent consultant and political analyst who focuses on feminist foreign policy, human security, as well as gender in peace and security. Barbara Mittelhammer is an independent, Berlin-based political analyst and consultant. Her research focuses on feminist foreign policy, gender in peace and security, human security, and civil society’s role in foreign policy-making. She has published on applying feminist foreign policy toward Iran and Syria, and has worked with think tanks, foundations, international organizations, ministries, parliamentarians, and civil society organizations, such as Carnegie Europe, Heinrich-Böll Foundation, Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, the German Foreign Office, and GIZ. In addition, she is a certified mediator.
As director with the Agora Strategy Group, a political consultancy, Ms. Mittelhammer built up and managed the Agora Strategy Institute, the consultancy’s think tank unit with a far-reaching global network of experts, and led international client projects. She headed Agora Strategy’s Berlin office and was head of HR and team lead. Before that, she was a press officer and project manager with the Munich Security Conference, one of the world’s leading platforms for debating international security policy. Ms. Mittelhammer studied political science, international law, and cultural anthropology in Munich and Paris. She is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and German, and speaks Italian.

Germany’s China Policy: Has it Learned any Lessons from its Dependence on Russia?
2023-03-09 11:00 - 12:00
What was once seen as a mutually beneficial bilateral relationship between China and Germany is being put under the microscope as Berlin considers its complex economic relationship with the People’s Republic. Germany’s coalition government is working on a new national security strategy – and also a strategy for relations with China. Berlin’s re-evaluation of its economic and foreign policy regarding Beijing comes just as China’s parliament — the National People’s Congress — will meet for the first time since China’s “Covid Zero” policy was lifted.
On March 5th, some 3,000 deputies will gather to review the government’s performance over the past year and hear how the country’s top leaders plan to jumpstart the economy and aid recovery from the pandemic and the economic slowdown. The legislature will also formally name new officials to government posts, and over the course of the week China watchers will be able to gain some insights on some of the country’s new leaders – like Li Qiang, who’s poised to become the Premier, and the new foreign minister, Qin Gang.
One of the people watching the developments in Berlin and Beijing closely is ACG Young Leader alumna Dana Heide, who served as Handelsblatt’s China correspondent for three years before moving to Berlin. Dana Heide (2018 ACG Young Leader) has been the Handelsblatt’s capital correspondent in Berlin since the summer of 2022. Before that, she was Handelsblatt’s China correspondent in Beijing for three years. After studying Economics in Bremen, she joined Handelsblatt in 2011 – and already reported from Berlin from 2015 to 2019. She covers the German Foreign Office and focuses on international relations, especially German-Chinese relations, as well as the German government’s China policy.

In Focus: Russia’s War in Ukraine Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: One Year Later
2023-03-14 11:00 - 12:00
When Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, President Vladimir Putin thought his forces would take Kyiv and bring down the government within days. A year later, the war rages on. Ukraine has courageously defended itself against the Russian onslaught, but there is no end in sight.
The American Council on Germany and the Tennessee World Affairs Council are continuing their series of virtual events titled In Focus: Russia’s War in Ukraine to provide continued updates on the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine that has rocked the world order.
Join us on Tuesday, March 14 for a discussion with Dr. Liana Fix, a Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Ambassador John Kornblum, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Dr. Liana Fix is a Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations, based in Washington, DC. Previously, she served in the International Affairs Department of the Körber Foundation in Berlin. She is a political scientist and historian, and her work focuses on Russia and Eastern Europe, European security, arms control, and German foreign policy. She will be focusing on transatlantic policy toward Russia while at GMF. Dr. Fix has been published widely in academia, think tanks, and national and international media. She holds a doctorate degree from the Justus Liebig University Giessen and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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, particularly 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.

China is more than Xi Jinping: Perspectives on Chinese Society and Implications for the Transatlantic Relationship
2023-03-15 12:00 - 13:30
The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Dr. Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Professor of Sinology at the University of Trier and 2022 McCloy Fellow on Global Trends.
Dr. Kristin Shi-Kupfer is a Professor of Sinology at the University of Trier and a Senior Associate Fellow at MERICS. She is an expert on China’s digital politics, media policy, civil society, and human rights.
From 2013 until September 2020, Kristin headed MERICS’ Public Policy and Society research area. She previously worked as a research associate at the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Sinology. She earned her Ph.D. from Ruhr University Bochum with a thesis on spiritual and religious groups in China after 1978. From 2007 to 2011, she was based in Beijing, covering China for various German-speaking media like the Austrian magazine Profil, the German Protestant Press Agency epd, and Deutsche Welle.
Since 2019, she has been a member of the Sino-German Working Group on Digital Business Models initiated by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In 2022, she was awarded a McCloy Fellow on Global Trends from the American Council on Germany to conduct research on Chinese influence on the transatlantic relationship.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2023-03-20 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, March 20, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Dr. Anna Sauerbrey, Foreign Editor for the weekly DIE ZEIT and 2018 ACG Kellen Fellow. Dr. Anna Sauerbrey is the Foreign Editor at the weekly DIE ZEIT. Previously, she headed the opinion pages of Der Tagesspiegel and Tagesspiegel Causa, the paper’s online magazine.
She studied History, Political Science, and Journalism in Mainz and Bordeaux. From 2005 to 2009, she was a research assistant in the History Department at the University of Mainz. She worked as an intern at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and ZDF, among others, and as a freelancer for the Mainzer Rhein-Zeitung for several years. In 2009, Dr. Sauerbrey completed a traineeship at Der Tagesspiegel and became a staff member of its opinion/editorial department. In 2013, she was an Arthur F. Burns Fellow at the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2018, she was awarded an Anna-Marie and Stephen M. Kellen Fellowship for Berlin-based journalists by the ACG to research religion’s role in American politics.

Heimat Is a Space in Time
2023-03-28 17:30 - 21:30
In Heimat Is a Space in Time (Germany, 2019), German filmmaker Thomas Heise shares the stories of three generations of his family, in their own words.
Heise sets the tone early, reading an anti-war essay written in 1912 by his grandfather Wilhelm, when he was a schoolboy. The director uses the same matter-of-fact, uninflected tone throughout the film – as he reads letters and notes from relatives who lived through the horrors of the First World War, Nazi Germany, and then life in Communist East Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Heimat is a Space in Time defies easy description. Heise offers no context, no talking heads, no analysis. Yet this unadorned approach, coupled with the potent imagery accompanying the words, is one of the documentary’s greatest strengths. One particularly memorable sequence involves Heise’s grandparents, a “mixed” Jewish-Gentile couple living in Vienna during the Nazi era. Their letters capture the increasing measures taken against Jews: banned from buses, losing access to coal ration cards, and lastly being forced to a concentration camp in Poland. All the while, as Heise reads, lists with the names of Jews slated for deportation scroll by on the screen for nearly half an hour.
Clearly influenced by his own previous work (much of it banned in the former East Germany, where he lived until the fall of the Berlin Wall), Heimat is the culmination of Heise’s career. It is an understated epic that brilliantly marries the written word, image, and sound design. The unspoken message is that the past, even as those who remember it slip away, remains with us.

The EU-China Investment Agreement: A Window Into The German Debate On China
2023-03-29 11:00 - 12:00
In December 2020, at the end of her tenure as German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed through the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) – which had been negotiated in 35 meetings over a seven year period and was intended to replace individual bilateral treaties between EU member states and China. This move caused some consternation to the incoming Biden Administration, which signaled its desire to work with Europe to address common concerns regarding China’s economic practices even before entering office. However, due to actions taken by Beijing in the spring of 2021, there was a sudden spike in mistrust of China in Brussels and EU member states – and in May 2021 the European Parliament voted to freeze the ratification of the agreement.
Although CAI was short-lived, it offers an interesting window into the debate in Germany about German and European economic relations with China. Join the ACG for a discussion about the evolving debate in Germany about China with 2021 ACG DZ Bank Fellow Dr. Lily McElwee, who currently is a Fellow at the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Dr. Lily McElwee serves as a fellow in the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Her research interests include U.S.-China relations, EU-China relations, and global governance. She is also a DZ bank fellow in transatlantic business and finance with the American Council on Germany and a CSIS-USC U.S.-Korea NextGen scholar. Her work has appeared in International Affairs, The Diplomat, St Antony’s International Review, and E-International Relations. She holds a DPhil in China studies and an MSc from the University of Oxford and a BA with honors in political science from Stanford University.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2023-04-03 09:00 - 10:00
he ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, April 3, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Journalist Miriam Hollstein, Chief Reporter for T-Online in Berlin and 2008 ACG McCloy Fellow. Miriam Hollstein serves as the Chief Reporter for T-Online in Berlin. Prior to this position, she served as the Chief Political Reporter for FUNKE Zentralredaktion from November 2020 to December 2021. 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 of 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.
In 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.

Iran in a Revolutionary Process and the Role of the West
2023-04-04 11:00 - 12:00
In recent years, there have been numerous waves of protests in Iran against the country’s corrupt theocracy. The death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, while in police custody for wearing an “improper” hijab, has triggered what has become the most severe and sustained political upheaval ever faced by the Islamist regime in Tehran. Waves of protests, led primarily by women, broke out immediately, sending some two-million people into the streets of 160 cities and small towns across the country. Hundreds of people have died, and thousands are in prison. The regime’s suppression and the opponents’ exhaustion have slowed the protests, but some analysts believe Iran has embarked on an uncharted and irreversible course.
How do we make sense of this extraordinary political happening? How close are the protesters to really dethroning Iran’s leaders? Is Iran on the verge of another revolution? To answer these questions, join the ACG for a virtual discussion with 2022 McCloy Global Trends Fellow Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Founder & Director, Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG). Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad is a German–Iranian political scientist focusing on Iran, the Middle East, and the post-unipolar world order. He is a 2022 ACG McCloy Fellow on Global Trends, exploring how transatlantic foreign policy toward authoritarian states could reconcile interests and values. Also, he is an Associate Fellow with the American University of Beirut’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (AUB-IFI), where he publishes a monthly brief entitled »Iran in Focus« (previously published as »Iran 1400 Brief«). He is the author of the much-acclaimed book Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani (2021), as well as initiator and co-host of the Berlin Mideast Podcast (Konrad Adenauer Foundation). He is also an affiliated researcher with the Centre d’Études de la Coopération Internationale et du Développement (CECID) at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Freie Universität (FU) Berlin’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics.
Dr. Fathollah Nejad has taught globalization and development in the Middle East, contemporary Iran, the Arab Revolts, and great-power politics at the University of Tübingen (as Senior Lecturer in Middle East and Comparative Politics), in the Ph.D. program of Qatar University’s Gulf Studies Center, at FU Berlin’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, the University of Westminster, SOAS, etc. Due to COVID-19, his Visiting Professorship at the Centre for International Studies of the University of Economics in Prague is postponed.
Dr. Fathollah Nejad is the former Iran expert at the Brookings Institution in Doha (BDC, 2017–20) and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP, 2015–18). In 2020, he published two monographs: The Islamic Republic of Iran Four Decades On: The 2017/18 Protests Amid a Triple Crisis, where he suggested the start of a long-term revolutionary process in Iran, and The Politics of Culture in Times of Rapprochement: European Cultural and Academic Exchange with Iran (2015–16).
He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Department of Development Studies at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) and was the winner of 2016/17 post-doctoral fellowship of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Iran Project. His about 300 analytical pieces in English, German, and French have been translated into a dozen languages. A frequent speaker at academic conferences and political forums, he regularly contributes to leading international media outlets in English, German, and French – and is fluent in German, French, English, and Persian.

A New Global Policy for the Transatlantic Community
2023-04-04 12:30 - 14:00
The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Ambassador Christoph Heusgen, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference.
Ambassador Christoph Heusgen (ACG Board member) has been the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2022. Before taking on that role, Ambassador Heusgen was the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations from 2017 to 2021 and Germany’s representative on the Security Council in 2019 and 2020. Before coming to New York, Ambassador Heusgen served for 12 years as Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel. His career in the Foreign Service also included terms as Deputy Head in charge of European affairs in the private office of Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel from 1993 to 1997 and Director of the Policy Unit of High Representative Javier Solana in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels from 1999 to 2005.
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Understanding Germany’s Zeitenwende One Year On
2023-04-05 08:00 - 09:30
The Cleveland Warburg Chapter and the World Affairs Council of Cleveland will host a breakfast briefing with Dr. Liana Fix, Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Liana Fix is a Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations, based in Washington, DC. Previously, she served in the International Affairs Department of the Körber Foundation in Berlin. She is a political scientist and historian, and her work focuses on Russia and Eastern Europe, European security, arms control, and German foreign policy. She will be focusing on transatlantic policy toward Russia while at GMF. Dr. Fix has been published widely in academia, think tanks, and national and international media. She holds a doctorate degree from the Justus Liebig University Giessen and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
With thanks to the Cleveland Council on World Affairs for supporting this event.

Resilience and Adaptation 2.0: The Future of Globalization
2023-04-05 11:00 - 12:00
Three years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the launch of our virtual transatlantic discussion series “Resilience and Adaptation” with 24 episodes covering a range of social, political, and economic implications, 1014 and the American Council on Germany are launching a new virtual discussion series to revisit some of the same themes and examine how much has (or has not) changed as the result of the pandemic. Which lessons have been learned? Have any changes proven to be sustainable?
Global supply chains suffered a major disruption as a result of the pandemic – which has been exacerbated with the war in Ukraine. Economic interdependence (in areas such as semi-conductors and more recently energy) has been called into question as there are calls for on-shoring and “friend-shoring” for critical sectors. With most factories and production back on-line at pre-pandemic levels, is global manufacturing back on track? What are the implications of the disruptions of recent years on trade? To answer these questions, join 1014 and the American Council on Germany for a virtual discussion with globalization experts Thorsten Benner and Dr. Shannon O’Neil. Thorsten Benner is Co-Founder and Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. His areas of interest include the interplay of the US, Europe and non-Western powers in the making of global (dis)order, German and European policy vis-à-vis China and Asia-Pacific, peace and security as well as data and technology politics. Prior to co-founding GPPi in 2003, he worked with the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, the UNDevelopment Programme in New York, and the Global Public Policy Project in Washington, DC.
His commentary has appeared in DIE ZEIT, International New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Handelsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others. His publications include The New World of UN Peace Operations: Learning to Build Peace? (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Critical Choices. The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global Governance (Ottawa, 2000).
Mr. Thorsten is an adjunct faculty member at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, where he has been involved since its founding in 2003. From 2011 to 2015, he worked with the founding team of the School of Public Policy at Central European University. He is a member of the Global Board of Directors of More in Common.
He studied political science, history, and sociology at the University of Siegen (Germany), the University of York (UK), and the University of California at Berkeley.
From 2001 to 2003, he was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he received a master’s degree in public administration. He received scholarships from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the German National Academic Foundation.
Dr. Shannon K. O’Neil is the Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an expert on global trade, supply chains, Mexico, Latin America, and democracy.
Dr. O’Neil is the author of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter (Yale University Press, October 2022), which chronicles the rise of three main global manufacturing and supply chain hubs and what they mean for U.S. economic competitiveness. She also wrote Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead (Oxford University Press, 2013), which analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations Mexico has undergone over the last three decades and why they matter for the United States. She is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and a frequent guest on national broadcast news and radio programs. Dr. O’Neil has often testified before Congress, and regularly speaks at global academic, business, and policy conferences.
Dr. O’Neil has lived and worked in Mexico and Argentina. She was a Fulbright scholar and a Justice, Welfare, and Economics fellow at Harvard University, and has taught Latin American politics at Columbia University.
Before turning to policy, Dr. O’Neil worked in the private sector as an equity analyst at Indosuez Capital and Credit Lyonnais Securities. She holds a BA from Yale University, an MA in international relations from Yale University, and a PhD in government from Harvard University. She is a member of the board of directors of the Tinker Foundation.

Common Concerns and Opportunities? Addressing Transatlantic Challenges for the Decades Ahead
2023-04-13 12:00 - 13:30
The Los Angeles Warburg Chapter will host a discussion and luncheon with Bundestag Members Isabel Cademartori, Matthias David Mieves, and Dr. Lina Seitzl. Isabel Cademartori (SPD) has served as Member of the Bundestag since 2021. She currently is a member of the Committee for Housing, Urban Development, Construction and Communities, as well as the Transportation Committee, and the Health Committee. Her career started in communal politics as a member of the Municipal Council of Mannheim. She holds a Master’s degree in Business and Economics Education from the University of Mannheim.
Matthias David Mieves (SPD) is a Member of Parliament currently serving on the Digital Committee, the Health Committee and the Committee on Climate Protection and Energy. Prior to his time in office, he worked as Head of Innovation Portfolio & Investment Management for the Deutsche Telekom AG. Mr. Mieves holds a Degree in Business Economics from the University of Mannheim as well as a diploma in business administration.
Dr. Lina Seitzl (SPD) was elected to the German Bundestag as a Member of Parliament in 2021. She serves on the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment, as well as the Economic Committee, and the Subcommittee on Global Health. Before her time in the Bundestag, she held a lecturer position at St. Gallen University and led various research projects focused on Political Economy. Dr. Seitzl holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science and Administration from University of Konstanz and a PhD in Political Science from St. Gallen University.
Held in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. With special thanks to Sidley Austin LLP for hosting this event.

Germany’s Zeitenwende: The War in Ukraine and the New German Defense Posture
2023-04-14 12:00 - 13:30
The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Lieutenant General Kai Rohrschneider, Director General for Forces Policy at the Federal Ministry of Defense.
Lieutenant General Kai Ronald Rohrschneider (1998 Young Leader) joined the Federal Armed Forces in 1983 as an officer candidate in the Armor Branch. He completed his basic military education in Armor Battalion 63 in Arolsen and joined the University of the Federal Armed Forces in 1984. He finished his academic education in 1988 with a degree in economics, organization and business administration. After assignments as a platoon leader and company commander in Munster and Cuxhaven, he was selected for the national General/Admiral Staff Officer Course at the Command and Staff College in Hamburg which he completed in 1998. After being assigned as the G3 Planning and Operations Officer at the Army Forces Command in Koblenz, General Rohrschneider joined the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Joint Service Command and Staff College in Shrivenham in the United Kingdom in 2000. After assignments in the Germany Ministry of Defense and as Chief of Staff of the 37th Light Infantry Brigade in Frankenberg, General Rohrschneider assumed command over Armor Battalion 393 in Bad Salzungen in 2005. Following this command position, he was appointed as senior personnel officer at the Bundeswehr Personnel Office. General Rohrschneider was appointed Chief of G3 Division of the 13th Mechanized Infantry Division in Leipzig in 2008. Having attended the National Security Program at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto in 2011 and being appointed as the Branch-Chief for Security Policy Aspects of Bundeswehr Participation in Operations and Missions at the German Ministry of Defense in 2012, General Rohschneider assumed command over the 21st Armor Brigade “Lipperland” in Augustdorf in 2014. Leaving this position in 2016, he was assigned as the Chief of Staff of the US Army Europe in Wiesbaden, followed by an assignment as the Chief of Staff of the Multinational Joint Headquarters in Ulm in 2018, and in 2019, additionally, as Deputy Commander NATO Joint Support and Enabling Command. Lieutenant General Rohrschneider was appointed Director General for Forces Policy at the Federal Ministry of Defense in 2020.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2023-04-17 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, April 17 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Karina Mößbauer, Chief Reporter of the Politics Department/ Parliament Office for BILD Karina Mößbauer has been the Chief Reporter for the Politics Department and Parliament Office for BILD since 2015. In this role, she reports on the CDU/CSU and FDP and is also responsible for defense and security policy. In 2020, she produced and hosted BILD’s flagship weekly political debate show, “Die richtigen Fragen” (The Right Questions). In 2017 and 2018, she developed, produced, and hosted BILD’s “Fahrt ins Wochenende” (Driving into the Weekend), during which she would interview politicians on their last commute before the weekend. In 2017, she served as the U.S. Correspondent. She holds a master’s degree in International Journalism from Westminster University in London and a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Politics from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

Postwar Reconstruction in Ukraine: A New Marshall Plan?
2023-04-18 12:30 - 14:00
In recent months there has been much discussion about post-war reconstruction in Ukraine after the conflict there comes to an end. Some politicians, analysts, and pundits on both sides of the Atlantic have called for a “Marshall Plan for Ukraine.” Following the Second World War, the Marshall Plan was an ambitious and innovative strategy to rebuild Europe. It provided more than $15 billion in aid to 17 war-ravaged European countries – and was successful in rebuilding cities, infrastructure, and industry across the continent, including Germany. But, is the Marshall Plan the right model for rebuilding Ukraine? What lessons can be drawn from the implementation of the Marshall Plan 75 years ago?
Join 1014 and the American Council on Germany for a discussion with Dr. Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Bruce Stokes, non-resident Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, about the Marshall Plan, the current situation in Ukraine, and whether or not a Marshall Plan for Ukraine makes sense.

Dr. Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is the lead writer of the Council’s Geo-Graphics economics blog, and the creator of eight web-based interactives tracking Global Monetary Policy, Global Imbalances, Global Trade, Global Growth, Global Energy, Sovereign Risk, China’s Belt and Road, and Central Bank Currency Swaps. Prior to joining the Council in 1999, he was director of the International Economics Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He came to the Institute in 1992 from a Lloyd’s of London Tercentenary Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he received his MPhil and DPhil (PhD) in economics. He also holds a BSc in economics summa cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Steil has written and spoken widely on international finance, monetary policy, financial markets, and economic and diplomatic history. He has testified before the U.S. House, Senate, and CFTC, and is a regular op-ed writer and commentator on CNBC. His most recent book, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, won the New-York Historical Society’s 2019 Barbara and David Zalaznick Prize for best work on American history, won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s 2018 Douglas Dillon Prize, won the Honorable Mention (runner-up) for the 2019 ASEEES Marshall D. Shulman Prize, was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and is ranked number 3 among BookAuthority’s Best Diplomacy Books of All Time. Paul Kennedy in the Wall Street Journal called the book “brilliant,” the New York Times called it “trenchant and timely,” the Financial Times called it “elegant in style and impressive in insights,” and the Christian Science Monitor called it a “gripping, complex, and critically important story that is told with clarity and precision.”
Bruce Stokes is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and has served as the Executive Director of the GMFs “Transatlantic Task Force: Together or Alone? Choices and Strategies for Transatlantic Relations for 2021 and Beyond.” He is also a co-author of “Designing Ukraine’s Recovery in the Spirit of the Marshall Plan.” Previously, he was the Director of Global Economic Attitudes at the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC, and is a former international economics columnist for the National Journal, a Washington-based public policy magazine.
From 2010-2012, Mr. Stokes was a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. He was the author of the 2009 Transatlantic Trends survey, and two task force reports: The Case for Renewing Transatlantic Capitalism, and A New Era for Transatlantic Trade Leadership. In 1987 and again in 1989, he was a Japan Society Fellow, living in and reporting from Japan. In 1997, he was a member of President Clinton’s Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy and he wrote its final report, “Building American Prosperity in the 21st Century.”
He is co-author of the book America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked (Times Books, 2006), and co-author of numerous Pew Global Attitudes Surveys. Mr. Stokes is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
