Publications: Transatlantic Relations

NATO’s Global Aspirations

Posted on 2008-05-16.

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Bucharest was initially dubbed the “enlargement summit.” But this epithet was soon obsolete, despite the go-ahead for Albania and Croatia to join. Western European opposition to Ukrainian and Georgian membership plans was too strong. Would enlargement necessarily increase NATO’s capacity?

Can Anyone Stop Hillary?

Posted on 2007-11-21.

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Curiously, there is one point on which almost all election pundits have so far agreed about the 2008 Presidential Race—Hillary Clinton has yet to put a foot wrong. Ahead by 25 plus points for the Democratic nomination in all national polls, Senator Clinton also has the momentum with her; her lead has been consistently widening.

Europe and America: Managing the 21st Century’s Agenda

Posted on 2007-10-24.

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On June 14 and 15, 2007 the DGAP in conjunction with its Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies and the Transatlantic Relations Program hosted the International Conference “Europe and America: Managing the 21st Century’s Agenda.” The conference brought together leading European and American thinkers for a two-day discussion on the development of Transatlantic Relations within the context of rapidly changing geopolitical realities. The conference explored the degree of commonality between European and American values in various policy arenas, rather than approaching debates from the conventional standpoint that Euro-American relations necessarily maintain core similarities. Its mission was expressed within the opening remarks of Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider, director of the DGAP research institute. Prof. Dr. Sandschneider opened with the observation that the days in which transatlantic cooperation could be taken for granted are over: a relationship that has experienced recent diplomatic pitfalls, been subject to the rise of unanticipated political forces and exposed to new challenges must be reflected upon. By way of officially welcoming conference participants, he asked rhetorically, “Is there truly a common transatlantic agenda?”

Can the United States Shed Its Oil Addiction?

Posted on 2007-09-14.

Instead of competing with rising powers for scarce fossil energy resources of the past, security, economic, and environmental factors give U.S. policymakers strong incentives to lead the country in cultivating the alternative fuels and energy technologies of the future.

Germany and the USA in the "War against Terror": Is Extraordinary Rendition Putting Transatlantic Cooperation under Strain?

Posted on 2007-07-30.

The debate about secret prisons and CIA flights known as extraordinary renditions has put transatlantic cooperation to the test. The Bush Administration defends the practice as a viable tool to combat terrorism while Germany stresses the need to safeguard human rights and the rule of law in the fight against terror. Allegations on both sides of the Atlantic put at risk a common understanding about transatlantic values in general and transatlantic intelligence cooperation in particular. In fact, different threat perceptions and the political discourse over renditions is turning into an increasing burden for transatlantic anti-terror cooperation.

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