Germany

United States Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican of South Carolina), Chairman, US Senate Judiciary Committee, left, US Senator Richard Blumenthal (Democrat of Connecticut), center, and US Senator Dianne Feinstein (Democrat of California), Ranking Member, US Senate Judiciary Committee, right, chat prior to the committee markup of the "Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act of 2020," and judicial nominations in Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, Thursday, July 2, 2020. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

TechTank

The push for content moderation legislation around the world

David Morar and Bruna Martins dos Santos

Monday, September 21, 2020

Ambassador of Germany to Russia Geza Andreas von Geyr is seen outside the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia September 9, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Order from Chaos

Germany is well placed to lead a tougher EU response to Russia

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, September 10, 2020

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrive for the weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin, Germany August 12, 2020. Tobias Schwarz/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

Hard road back to power for Germany’s Social Democrats

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Monday, August 17, 2020

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with U.S. soldiers based in Grafenwoehr, Germany November 7, 2019. Jens Meyer/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Order from Chaos

You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, but most Germans are fine with Trump’s withdrawal of US troops

James Kirchick

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Reports

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel look into documents during the first face-to-face EU summit since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brussels, Belgium July 20, 2020. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — July 2020

Friday, July 24, 2020

Deligates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld,Pool

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

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

Blog Posts

FILE PHOTO: Huawei's new flagship store is seen ahead of tomorrow's official opening in Shanghai, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, China June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

Order from Chaos

Europe faces a fateful choice on Huawei

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, July 17, 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

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Multimedia

U.S. troops from 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division check military equipment after their deployment to Poland for military exercises in Drawsko Pomorskie training area, Poland March 21, 2019. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

Podcast Episode

What’s behind Trump’s decision to cut US troops in Germany?

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, July 31, 2020

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

Brussels Sprouts

Friday, April 10, 2020

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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

CANCELLED: The future of the West: A conversation with Bernard-Henri Lévy

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