The authors of “Transatlantic Relations in a New Era: The Next Generation’s Approach” would like to thank the Atlantische Initiative for creating this project, specifically Johannes Bohnen and Joerg Wolf for the incredible amount of work that went into the planning and execution of the first expedition.  Also, we wish to thank the supporters of this project for the generous funding which made this all possible.  Furthermore, we would like to recognize and express our deep gratitude to our German hosts who were gracious in listening to our policy recommendations and offering constructive feedback which was critical to informing the recommendations in this memo.  Specifically, we wish to thank:

• Helmut Schmidt University; Lieutenant Colonel Michael Hülcher, Professor Dr. Klaus Beckmann, Dr. Martin Nassua, Captain Tobias Klasing, HSU students, and Officer Cadets
• Bundeswehr Command and Staff College; Rear Admiral Carsten Stawitzki and Officers of the Command and Staff College
• Niels Annen, Member of the German Parliament, Foreign Policy Spokesperson of the SPD Parliamentary Group
• EUROGATE container terminal operator; Gunther Bonz, Executive Director of Eurogate
• M. Warburg & Co.; Dr. Henneke Lütgerath and Dr. Christian Jasperneite
• Frauenkirche Dresden; Sarah Listner
• State Chancellery of Saxony; Dr. Fritz Jaeckel, Thomas Horn, Marion Gündel
• Dresden – Place to be! e.V.; Annegret Schlurecke and Dr. Eva Sturm
• Professor Dr. Werner Patzelt, Technical University of Dresden
• State Directorate of Saxony; Peter Darmstadt, Leiter der Abteilung Asyl und Auslaenderrecht, Landesdirektion Sachsen
• German Red Cross; Lars Werthmann, Herr Truch
• Deutscher Bundestag; Dr. Julian Voje, Jacob Schrot, Johannes von Ahlefeldt, Stephan Liening, Michael Vorländer, Shelley Oberer, Fried Heye-Allers, Christine Hegenbart, Michael Hack, Julia Clajus, Torsten Menzel, and Angelika Pendzich-von Winter
• Federal Foreign Office; Michael Nowak and Dr. Georg Schulze Zumkley
• US Embassy Berlin; Alejandro Baez, Scott Robinson, and Craig Pike
• WeQ!; Marlen Klaws and Moritz Ettl
• Klaus Scharioth, former German Ambassador to the United States and State Secretary of the German Foreign Office
• Christoph von Marshall, Tagesspiegel Correspondent in the United States.

The project “Atlantic Expedition” is made possible by financial contributions from the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany with Funds through the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy (BMWi), the Friede Springer Foundation, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Microsoft and the Haniel Foundation.