Integrating Young Minorities into the Workforce
Dr. Ryan Monroe is Chief Academic Officer at Carlos Rosario School in Washington, DC. He was a participant in AICGS’ site visits in Charlotte, NC, as part of the Institute’s work on integrating young...
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A Collection from This Week’s News on Important Issues for German-American Relations Business and Economics Germany to take legal action if Trump taxes imports (DW) Germany should ditch austerity,...
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A Collection from This Week’s News on Important Issues for German-American Relations Business and Economics Germany Said to Seek Early U.K. Brexit Pledge to Pay Its EU Bill (Bloomberg) Trump is wrong...
View ArticleLooking for Insight into the Future of Transatlantic Economic Ties? Watch...
2016 was a tumultuous year in the political economy of trade. Populists have been on the march nearly everywhere—slowed, perhaps temporarily, by Dutch elections two weeks ago. At times, the target has...
View ArticleGE CEO: Germany points the way for a U.S. manufacturing revival
In an April 2 interview with Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s “Global Public Square,” GE CEO Jeff Immelt made the case for looking to Germany for clues to reviving manufacturing in hard-hit areas in the U.S....
View ArticleIntegrating Refugees into the Workforce
When it comes to migrants and refugees, the policy differences between the U.S. and Germany are vast these days. Trump and Merkel seem polar opposites: One trying to halve refugee admissions and block...
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A Collection from This Week’s News on Important Issues for German-American Relations Business and Economics U.S.-China trade scorecard: advantage China (USA Today) How Trump can Improve the Messy...
View ArticleWorking toward Being an Inclusive, Welcoming Home for Immigrants and Their...
I recently visited Charlotte, North Carolina with a small group convened by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS). The purpose of the trip was to examine how Charlotte, a city...
View ArticleA Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step
The highly anticipated first meeting between Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping concluded quietly against the backdrop of U.S. missile strikes in Syria. Despite flawlessly choreographed...
View ArticleThe TTIP, Investment Protection, and Transatlantic Populism
In 2016, voters on both sides of the Atlantic rocked some of the foundational assumptions about transatlantic relations. Populist electoral revolts in Europe and the United States have amounted to...
View ArticlePrivatization of Security Services
Privatization of security services is growing in both the United States and Germany. Although the two countries share a similar trend, there are some diverging approaches to the field of security. In...
View ArticleFixing Trade Rules—Or Fixing Trade Deficits?
In international relations, a distinction is often drawn between the “realist” school that bases decision-making on an objective calculation of national interests, and an “idealist” school that...
View ArticleTrade Policy: Is the Best Defense Still a Good Offense?
The second meeting of the AICGS Geoeconomics Strategy Group focused on “Trade Policy: Is the Best Defense Still a Good Offense?” The new U.S. administration’s emphasis on trade defense—stepping up...
View ArticleNotizen Weekly for April 14
A Collection from This Week’s News on Important Issues for German-American Relations Business and Economics If Germany’s Got a Jobs Miracle, Not Everyone’s a Believer (Bloomberg) Machine exports to...
View ArticleQuo Vadis G20? – The role of multilateral fora in times of political nationalism
The next G20 summit will take place in Hamburg on July 7-8, 2017. As part of the G20’s outreach process, the B20 is the official business dialogue of the G20, representing the entire G20 business...
View ArticleEurope at 60
In the last sixty years, the institutionalized cooperation between sovereign nation states in Europe has been a major success. Underpinned by a U.S. commitment to the defense of Europe, European...
View ArticleEurope and the World Need to Be Strategically Patient with Trump
As international delegates begin arriving in Washington, DC, for the first IMF/World Bank semi-annual meetings of the Trump era, among the biggest question facing leaders from around the world is what...
View ArticleG20 – Global Trade Governance in Uncertain Times
The G20 is facing its second big litmus test. Almost ten years ago, only decisive action by the G20 prevented the global economy from spiraling into a deep depression. Not only did the G20 coordinate...
View ArticleNotizen Weekly for April 21
A Collection from This Week’s News on Important Issues for German-American Relations Business and Economics Trump just signed a ‘buy American’ order, but his own businesses don’t (Business Insider)...
View ArticleClosing the Skills Gap
Anticipated demographic changes in the United States suggest that many communities—and their workforces—will be increasingly minority-based, with Hispanic population growth outpacing other minority...
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