Germany

China

Balancing act: Major powers and the global response to US-China great power competition

Fiona Hill, Tanvi Madan, Amanda Sloat, Mireya Solís, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Bruce Jones, Emilie Kimball, Jesse I. Kornbluth, and Ted Reinert

July 2020

People wearing face masks hold signs and copies of the German constitution as they participate in a protest by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party against the government's restrictions following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Berlin, Germany, May 16, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Order from Chaos

Germany’s far-right a major loser from COVID-19, so far

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Tourist Ann-Kathrin from Germany wears a face mask as she walks past the East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, following the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease outbreak in Berlin, Germany, June 27, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Order from Chaos

Reopening the World: Reopening Germany

Constanze Stelzenmüller and Sam Denney

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A visitor stands next to part of an installation during preparations for an exhibition about Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem April 6, 2011. The exhibition "With Me Here Are Six Million Accusers: An Exhibition Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Eichmann Trial" opens to the public on April 11. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: CONFLICT ANNIVERSARY SOCIETY)

Europe

The vital task of Holocaust memory

Walter Reich

Monday, June 15, 2020

Reports

July 11, 2019, Tokyo, Japan - Japanese robot maker Fanuc's arm robot picks and removes a tumbling bottle for a demonstration at the International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition (FOOMA) in Tokyo on Thursday, July 11, 2019. Some 680 companies exhibit their latest machines for the food processing industry at a four-day trade show. (Photo by Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO) No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

Report

Innovation and the transatlantic productivity slowdown: A comparative analysis of R&D and patenting trends in Japan, Germany, and the United States

Dany Bahar and Sebastian Strauss

Monday, January 27, 2020

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcome France's President Emmanuel Macron at the NATO leaders summit in Watford, Britain December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/Pool

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – January 2020

Thursday, January 23, 2020

People pass the East Side Gallery close to river Spree during sunset in Berlin, Germany, August 12, 2019. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1E5D992B80

Essay

German lessons

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Monday, November 4, 2019

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy listens during a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, New York, U.S., September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1BBB443CF0

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – October 2019

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 13, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC1AB086D0B0

International Affairs

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

Constanze Stelzenmüller

August 2019

Blog Posts

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) board meeting in Hamburg, Germany January 17, 2020. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

Order from Chaos

Why cutting American forces in Germany will harm this alliance

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, June 15, 2020

(left to right) An RAF F-35B Lightning stealth jet, a United States Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle and a French Air Force Rafale fly in formation over the English Channel during Operation Point Blank.

Order from Chaos

Why Germany’s nuclear mission matters

Peter Rough and Frank A. Rose

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (L) speaks during an extraordinary European Parliament plenary session on the Commission’s proposal on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and the Recovery Instrument.

Order from Chaos

Europe’s battle lines are drawn at a uniquely perilous moment

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, May 28, 2020

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a news conference following a meeting with international economic and financial organisations at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany May 20, 2020, on the effects of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Odd Andersen/Pool via REUTERS

Germany

Merkel’s pandemic moment

Constanze Stelzenmüller and Gideon Rachman

The Rachman Review

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

VENICE, ITALY- Members of health carry out disinfection tasks in the streets and public places of Venice, Italy on April 9, 2020. Until this Friday (10), 143,626 cases of infection with coronavirus Covid-19 were reported in Italy, 18,279 dead and 28,470 recovered in the country.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Politics and International Relations

Europe responds to the COVID crisis

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Nathalie Tocci, Jim Townsend, and Andrea Kendall-Taylor

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The rise of populism in Germany

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Reports

Europe 1989-2019: Lessons learned 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall

The German election and the future of the trans-Atlantic relationship

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