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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F7816800134125%2FWN_BayXuLBLTrmQI-a9xaPM_Q” css=”.vc_custom_1680013453737{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 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. \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-64/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T110000
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SUMMARY:Iran in a Revolutionary Process and the Role of the West
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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. \nHow 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).[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F9616795861141%2FWN_3HHCmboJSyujzOSiOBTxhw” css=”.vc_custom_1679586160005{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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. \nDr. 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. \nDr. 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). \nHe 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/iran-in-a-revolutionary-process-and-the-role-of-the-west/
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SUMMARY:A New Global Policy for the Transatlantic Community
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Ambassador Christoph Heusgen\, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. \nAmbassador 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.\nWith special[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/a-new-global-policy-for-the-transatlantic-community/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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SUMMARY:Understanding Germany’s Zeitenwende One Year On
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fbreakfast-briefing-with-dr-liana-fix-in-cleveland-tickets-603787533767″ css=”.vc_custom_1680271776241{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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. \nWith thanks to the Cleveland Council on World Affairs for supporting this event.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/understanding-germanys-zeitenwende-one-year-on/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T120000
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SUMMARY:Resilience and Adaptation 2.0: The Future of Globalization
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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? \nGlobal 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.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F7916804698617%2FWN_68s6rDXyRAWsFPi0de5GOg” css=”.vc_custom_1680469928803{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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. \nHis 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). \nMr. 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. \nHe studied political science\, history\, and sociology at the University of Siegen (Germany)\, the University of York (UK)\, and the University of California at Berkeley. \nFrom 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. \nDr. 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. \nDr. 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. \nDr. 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. \nBefore 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/resilience-and-adaptation-2-0-the-future-of-globalization/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T120000
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SUMMARY:Common Concerns and Opportunities?  Addressing Transatlantic Challenges for the Decades Ahead
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Los Angeles Warburg Chapter will host a discussion and luncheon with Bundestag Members Isabel Cademartori\, Matthias David Mieves\, and Dr. Lina Seitzl.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fdiscussion-and-luncheon-with-members-of-the-bundestag-tickets-597943594387″ css=”.vc_custom_1680125531821{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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. \nMatthias 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. \nDr. 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. \nHeld in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. With special thanks to Sidley Austin LLP for hosting this event.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/common-concerns-and-opportunities-addressing-transatlantic-challenges-for-the-decades-ahead/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T120000
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SUMMARY:Germany’s Zeitenwende:  The War in Ukraine and the New German Defense Posture
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Lieutenant General Kai Rohrschneider\, Director General for Forces Policy at the Federal Ministry of Defense. \nLieutenant 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-zeitenwende-the-war-in-ukraine-and-the-new-german-defense-posture/
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SUMMARY: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\, April 17 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Karina Mößbauer\, Chief Reporter of the Politics Department/ Parliament Office for BILD[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F9316814012942%2FWN_ED7oHvN6R6qHRnzVxOhpXA” css=”.vc_custom_1681401325957{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-65/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T123000
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SUMMARY:Postwar Reconstruction in Ukraine:  A New Marshall Plan?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nIn 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? \nJoin 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. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fpost-war-reconstruction-in-ukraine-a-new-marshall-plan-tickets-601527784797″ css=”.vc_custom_1680094184176{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text] \nDr. 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. \nDr. 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.” \nBruce 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. \nFrom 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.” \nHe 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. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/postwar-reconstruction-in-ukraine-a-new-marshall-plan/
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SUMMARY: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.\nJoin us on Monday\, April 24 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Henrike Roßbach\, Deputy Head and Correspondent for the Parliamentary Office for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4516819923037%2FWN_D_Vnh9BARZeyTRIDV79p-Q” css=”.vc_custom_1681992344100{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Henrike Roßbach is the Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Office for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. She has been a correspondent in the parliamentary office since the beginning of 2018. She reports on the FDP and the federal government’s financial and tax policies\, and (together with her colleagues) observes and describes the political landscape. Prior to this\, she was an economics correspondent in the parliamentary editorial department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for eight years\, as well as the economics editor of the FAZ in Frankfurt. She studied economics at the University of Cologne and is also a graduate of the Cologne School of Journalism. During her studies\, she spent a year in the United States as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Colorado in Boulder\, CO.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-66/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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SUMMARY:Cancelled - German Defense Policy and the Zeitenwende: Perspectives on European and Transatlantic Security
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with H.E. Boris Pistorius\, German Federal Minister of Defense. \nThis event is by invitation only. \n  \nH.E. Boris Pistorius is the German Federal Minister of Defense\, a position he has held since January 2023. In this capacity\, he serves as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces in peacetime and heads the Bundeswehr administration\, where he is responsible for the entire civilian staff of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Ministry. In the decade before his appointment\, he was Minister for Domestic Policy and Sports in Lower Saxony. From 2006 to 2013\, he was Mayor of the City of Osnabrück. He completed his military service before studying law at the University of Osnabrück and Münster.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/german-defense-policy-and-the-zeitenwende-perspectives-on-european-and-transatlantic-security/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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SUMMARY:Iran's Revolutionary Process and the Role of the West
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Philadelphia Warburg Chapter and German Society Of Pennsylvania will host a discussion with Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad\, Founder and Director\, Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG) and 2022 McCloy Global Trends Fellow.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fdiscussion-and-reception-in-philadelphia-with-dr-ali-fathollah-nejad-tickets-619773367827″ css=”.vc_custom_1682025513728{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]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. \nDr. 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. \nDr. 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). \nHe 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/irans-revolutionary-process-and-the-role-of-the-west/
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