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SUMMARY:One Year On: Germany’s Foreign Policy Reckoning After Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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? \nJoin 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. \nThis is a hybrid event and will be held in Washington\, DC.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.ceip.org%2Foneyearongermanysforeignpolicyshiftandthewarinukra” css=”.vc_custom_1674745159411{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\nDan 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). \nSophia Besch is a Fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focuses on European foreign and defense policy. \nJulia 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. \nAmbassador 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. \nAmbassador 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. \nJacob 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. \nDr. 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.\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/one-year-on-germanys-foreign-policy-reckoning-after-ukraine/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T090000
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SUMMARY:Canceled - Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]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. \nAfter 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-61/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T073000
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SUMMARY:A Rocky Road Ahead? German-American Friendshoring in an Era of Systemic Rivalry
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/a-rocky-road-ahead-german-american-friendshoring-in-an-era-of-systemic-rivalry/
CATEGORIES:Germany Events
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SUMMARY:Leveraging Innovation and Technology for National Security
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/leveraging-innovation-and-technology-for-national-security/
CATEGORIES:Germany Events
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SUMMARY:Endless War in Ukraine and Global Security
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/endless-war-in-ukraine-and-global-security-2/
CATEGORIES:Germany Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T073000
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SUMMARY:The Russian-Ukraine War and European Security: Defense and Deterrence 2023
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/he-russian-ukraine-war-and-european-security-defense-and-deterrence-2023/
CATEGORIES:Germany Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T090000
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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Munich?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F5716764734200%2FWN_nUJeoOpCQHKbBRcVidvR7A” css=”.vc_custom_1676473475553{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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. \nMr. 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. \nMr. 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. \nBefore 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. \nFrom 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. \nMr. 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. \nMr. 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. \nMr. 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-munich-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T120000
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SUMMARY:One Year Later: Russia’s War in Ukraine\, Germany’s Policy Pivot\, and Implications for Transatlantic Relations
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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).[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fgermanys-policy-pivot-on-russias-war-in-ukraine-with-metin-hakverdi-tickets-513436350947″ css=”.vc_custom_1674137872227{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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. \nMr. 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/one-year-later-russias-war-in-ukraine-germanys-policy-pivot-and-implications-for-transatlantic-relations/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000
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SUMMARY:One Year Later: Russia’s War in Ukraine\, Germany’s  Policy Pivot\, and Implications for Transatlantic Relations
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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).[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSezx6auVul-WfOURWufSKj8INcpH-wIPKBivKtJOO37Vtbeig%2Fviewform” css=”.vc_custom_1676043819282{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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. \nMr. 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/one-year-later-russias-war-in-ukraine-germanys-policy-pivot-and-implications-for-transatlantic-relations-2/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T110000
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SUMMARY:Understanding Germany: One Year After the Zeitenwende
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\n\nThree 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. \nAs 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? \nTo 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. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F6316770757223%2FWN_HlsLoIN2RVGSXx3Ch4Ntmg” css=”.vc_custom_1677077737781{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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. \nPrior 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. \nDr. 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. \nDr. 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).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/understanding-germany-one-year-after-the-zeitenwende/
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