Brookings-Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Initiative

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Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – July 2019

Thursday, July 18, 2019

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International Affairs

Hostile ally: The Trump challenge and Europe’s inadequate response

Constanze Stelzenmüller

August 2019

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France

Balancing act: The limits of pragmatism in the Franco-American relationship and the way forward

October 2018

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United Kingdom

Divided kingdom: How Brexit is remaking the UK’s constitutional order

October 2018

Brookings - Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Initiative

As part of an expanded collaboration between the Brookings Institution and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Transatlantic Initiative is a comprehensive multi-year project of applied research and programming. The aim of the initiative is to create synergies and originate new activities that reinvigorate transatlantic collaboration on global issues.

Experts

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Robert Bosch Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

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Amanda Sloat

Robert Bosch Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

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James Goldgeier

Robert Bosch Senior Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

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Research

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Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – April 2019

Friday, April 19, 2019

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Europe

The anatomy of illiberal states

Alina Polyakova, Torrey Taussig, Ted Reinert, Kemal Kirişci, Amanda Sloat, James Kirchick, Melissa Hooper, Norman Eisen, and Andrew Kenealy

February 2019

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan waves to his supporters upon his arrival at Esenboga Airport in Ankara. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan waves to his supporters upon his arrival from Strasbourg at Esenboga Airport in Ankara, October 7, 2004. Erdogan praised as "balanced" an EU Commission report on Wednesday recommending European Union entry talks with Ankara, and said he hoped negotiations would start in early 2005.The recommendation to EU leaders, who will decide in December whether and when to start talks, gave a green light hedged with conditions including the possibility of suspending negotiations if Turkey backtracks on democracy and human rights. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RP5DRIAILSAA

Report

The rise and fall of liberal democracy in Turkey: Implications for the West

Kemal Kirişci and Amanda Sloat

February 2019

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Blog Posts

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Order from Chaos

The AfD wolf is at the door in east Germany

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Monday, September 9, 2019

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Order from Chaos

Brexit endgame: Boris Johnson suspends Parliament

Thursday, August 29, 2019

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Order from Chaos

Punishing Denmark over Greenland shows Trump has defected to the autocrats

Thursday, August 22, 2019

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Events

Europe’s post-American future?

10:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

The role of Parliament in today’s Britain

9:45 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

Putin’s world

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

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Multimedia

Paolo Gentiloni and Thomas Wright at Brookings.

Order from Chaos

Paolo Gentiloni on the populist challenge in Europe

Filippos Letsas

Thursday, February 14, 2019

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends a news conference at the Alliance's headquarters, in Brussels.

U.S. Foreign Policy

An update on trans-Atlantic relations

Friday, January 18, 2019

Photo of panelists at October 23, 2018 Brexit event

Order from Chaos

On the brink: The United Kingdom and Ireland prepare for Brexit

Sam Denney and Ted Reinert

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

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