
Transatlantic Economy 2019
The Transatlantic Economy 2019 annual survey offers the most up-to-date set of facts and figures describing the deep economic integration...

All we know for sure about the 2020 US election is that we can’t be sure of anything
If the 2016 US Presidential Election was one of the most anticipated contests in nearly 243 years of America's existence, the election in...

A Preponderance of Stability: Henry Kissinger's Concern Over the Dynamics of Ostpolitik
DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow Stephan Kieninger's new article will be published by the Journal of Transatlantic Studies in its forthcoming...

An Underutilized Bonanza: Using Existing Oral Histories vs. Conducting One’s Own Interviews
Students of more recent political events are often keen to interview former officials. I know I was. Over the past two years, I talked to...

Paddy Ashdown’s Lessons For Multilateralists
A Royal Marine, a diplomat, a politician: Paddy Ashdown knew how to be tough to get things done. But he never forgot the importance of...

Challenges 2019 will bring for the Arab world
It has only been a few days since the New Year fireworks lit up the skies of many of the world’s cities. For a brief moment, it was...

Results of US midterm elections bring hope for inclusive politics
Although the embers have since cooled in one of the most hotly anticipated and closely watched midterm elections in the US, its striking...

The United States Should Not Get Involved in Libya’s Civil War
An unmistakable sense of despair and gloom accompanies most news reports and literature on the state of affairs in Libya after 2011. The...

The light has dimmed in Tunisia’s shining beacon
One of Tunisia’s many jobless graduates detonated a home-made suicide bomb in the capital last month. This was not a Daesh attack, it was...

Youth and the private sector hold keys to the Arab world’s future
Everywhere you look, the Arab world is changing — and fast. A decade or two ago, most countries in the region had an unusual system in...