Dr. Josef Braml

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Editor-in-Chief »Jahrbuch Internationale Politik«
Program Officer Transatlantic Relations

Areas of Specialization:

  • U.S. foreign and security policy
  • Transatlantic relations
  • Think tanks in Germany and the United States
  • Domestic factors of U.S. foreign policy
  • American political system and governance
  • U.S. homeland security / civil liberties / checks-and-balances
  • Religion and politics/policy-making in the United States
  • U.S. energy (foreign) policy

Foreign Languages: English and French
phone: +49 (0)30 25 42 31-12
braml@dgap.org

Josef Braml joined DGAP in October 2006 as Editor-in-Chief of the “Jahrbuch Internationale Politik”, and he is also a Resident Fellow in the Research Program USA / Transatlantic Relations. Prior to joining DGAP, Dr. Braml was a Research Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP), Berlin, the Project Leader at the Aspen Institute Berlin, a Visiting Scholar at the German-American Center, a Consultant at the World Bank, a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and a member of the Legislative Staff in the U.S. House of Representatives. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science (2001) and a Masters in International Business and Cultural Studies, I.B.C.S. (1997) at the University of Passau.

Among his recent publications in English are:

 

  • "Can the United States Shed Its Oil Addiction?", in: Washington Quarterly, 30 (Autumn 2007) 4, pp. 117-130.
  • With Claudia Schmucker: "Barriers in the Atlantic Economic Area. From TAFTA to a Free Market New Transatlantic Trade Initiatives“, in: Internationale Politik, Global Edition, 8 (Summer 2007) 2, pp. 44-47.
  • "The Bush Administration’s Faith-based Foreign Policy – A Matter of Transatlantic Estrangement"
    in: Hermann Kurthen, Antonio Menéndez-Alarcón und Stefan Immerfall (Eds.): Safeguarding German-American Relations in the New Century: Understanding and Accepting Mutual Differences, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, pp. 50-84.
  • "Faith In Foreign Policy: George W. Bush’s Transatlantic Relations", in: Amit Gupta und Cherian Samuel (Eds.): The Second Bush Presidency: Global Perspectives, New Delhi: Pearson-Longman/Observer Research Foundation, 2006, pp. 106-186.
  • "The Implications of U.S. Homeland Security", in: ISN Security Watch, 23.3.2006.
  • "A Litmus Test for Bush and the Republicans. The Composition of the “New” U.S. Supreme Court", in: SWP Comments No. 49, Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, November 2005.
  • "The Religious Right and U.S. Middle East Policy", in: Emirates Occasional Paper (EOP) Series (internat. peer review), No. 59, Abu Dhabi: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), 2005.
  • The Religious Right in the United States. The Base of the Bush-Administration?, SWP Analysis, No. S 35, Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, September 2004.
  • Think Tanks versus “Denkfabriken”? U.S. and German Policy Research Institutes’ Coping with and Influencing Their Environments, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2004.
  • "Rule of Law or Dictates by Fear. A German Perspective on American Civil Liberties in the War Against Terrorism", in: Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 27 (2003) 2: 115-140.
  • "God’s Own Country", in: Wir – Journal of the Free University (FU) Berlin, Dossier on Transatlantic Relations – Questions of Faith and Pragmatism, Winter 2003, pp. 47 and V.
  • "Ideas Have Consequences – What Matters For Ideas to Have What Kind of Consequences? Think Tanks’ Impact on the ‘Third Way’ Concept in the U.S.", in: Winand Gellner and Gerd Strohmeier (Eds.): Identität und Fremdheit. Eine amerikanische Leitkultur für Europa? PIN-Yearbook, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2001, pp. 81-95.
  • The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Its Political Environment, Issue Brief, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution/Government Affairs Institute, May 1996.