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February 10, 2017  |  By Redaktion In Big Picture

Atlantic Expedition Must Reads

Reading recommendations on a range of transatlantic issues discussed in the first Atlantic Expeditions working groups and as background information for applications for the second Atlantic Expedition. Check-out our Resources page for more introductory articles.


News

Economics Minister Threatens to Play U.S. Governors Against Trump
Dana Heide, Handelsblatt, February 9, 2017
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Merkel Anticipates Frosty Relations with U.S.
Spiegel, January 4, 2017
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Apocalypse is 30 seconds closer, say Doomsday Clock scientists
BBC, January 26, 2017
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German-American Relations

German Public Trust in USA Plummets to Record Low
A new poll shows that German trust in the transatlantic relationship has dropped to a level equatable to public trust in Russia since Donald Trump was elected US President.
In total, seven out of ten respondents told research group Infratest dimap that the US is not a trusted ally of Germany at the moment.
The Local, February 3, 2017
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The Future of Transatlantic Relations
Angela Merkel & Barack Obama, Wirtschaftswoche, November 17, 2016
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Merkel Has a Playbook for Bullies Like Trump
“Literally, there’s a five-point plan that she has used to take down macho adversaries her entire career.”
Paul Hockenos, Foreign Policy, January 31, 2017
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Germany’s last Atlanticist confronts Trump
Christoph Heusgen will seek to preserve Berlin’s most important relationship.
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico, January 19, 2017
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Germany: America’s real special relationship
Brexit accelerates U.S. shift away from U.K.
Benjamin Oreskes, Politico, June 30, 2016
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World Order

Post-Truth, Post-West, Post-Order? The Munich Security Report 2017
Munich Security Conference, February 13, 2017
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Backing Into World War III

America must check the assertive, rising powers of Russia and China before it’s too late. Accepting spheres of influence is a recipe for disaster.
Robert Kagan, Foreign Policy, February 6, 2017
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Role Reversal: Geo-economic America and Geopolitical Germany
Stephen F. Szabo, Transatlantic Academy, January 4, 2017
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Will Pax Germania replace Pax Americana?
Jacob Heilbrunn, Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2017
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Looking to Germany
What Berlin Can and Can’t Do for the Liberal Order
Stefan Fröhlich, Foreign Affairs, January 29, 2017
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“United we stand, divided we fall”
„We cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the Transatlantic bond, without which global order and peace cannot survive. We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand, divided we fall.“
EU Council President Donald Tusk, Letter to the 27 EU heads of state or government on the future of the EU before the Malta summit, January 31, 2017
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What the World Might Look Like in 5 Years, According to U.S. Intelligence
“For better and worse, the emerging global landscape is drawing to a close an era of American dominance following the Cold War,” the study argues. “So, too, perhaps is the rules-based international order that emerged after World War II.”
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic, January 10, 2017
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Putin’s Real Long Game
The world order we know is already over, and Russia is moving fast to grab the advantage. Can Trump figure out the new war in time to win it?
“Info warfare isn’t about creating an alternate truth, but eroding our basic ability to distinguish truth at all.”
Molly K. McKew, Politico, January 1, 2017
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The Decline of the West, and How to Stop It
“Internationalsm has stabilized the world while lapses into bellicose nationlsm have wreaked havoc”
Javier Solana and Strobe Talbott, NY Times, October 19, 2016
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The Global Post-democratic Order
Transnational Institute, January 19, 2016
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NATO

Trump and NATO: Opportunities and Dangers
Ira Louis Straus, atlantic-community.org, November 21, 2016
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NATO and the Delicate Balance of Deterrence: Strategy versus Burden Sharing
Anthony H. Cordesman, CSIS, February 7, 2017
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Let’s bring NATO to Washington
Magnus Nordenman and Henrik Breitenbauch, Defense News, February 8, 2017
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EU could slash costs by pooling military spending
Fragmented procurement drives up prices for world’s second-biggest investor in defense.
„Europe could save almost a third of what it spends on military equipment if governments clubbed together to coordinate investment and use fewer arms suppliers, according to an analysis by the consultancy McKinsey.“
Janosch Delcker, Politico, February 6, 2017
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Enhanced Forward Presence:
The Bundeswehr Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Jörg Vollmer on a working visit to Lithuania
German Delegation to NATO, February 3, 2017
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Counter-Terrorism

How to Reform Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism
Michael Chertoff (former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security), War on the Rocks
February 1, 2017
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Trade

Berlin prepares for Trump’s wrath
German deputy finance minister warns country may be next on president-elect’s trade hit list.
Politico, January 19, 2017
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Statt TTIP und TPP EU verhandelt über 20 weitere Freihandelsabkommen
„Der Protest gegen Ceta, TTIP und TPP war groß. Dennoch stehen die Chancen gut, dass die EU in diesem Jahr unbehelligt Handelsabkommen von viel größerer Tragweite abschließen wird. Wie kann das sein?”
Andre Tauber, Die Welt, January 3, 2017
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Germany

The New Parameters of German Foreign Policy
Hans Kundnani, Transatlantic Academy, February 3, 2017
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Germany’s Necessary Nuclear Debate
Thorsten Benner, GPPI, February 9, 2017
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The Politics of Security in Germany
A country threatened by terrorism grapples with a dark history of surveillance.
Andrew Green, The Atlantic, Feb 6, 2017
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Germany in the Age of Trump
Joschka Fischer (former foreign minister), Project Syndicate, January 26,2017
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Germany: The (Not So) Timid Leader
Claudia Major, Carnegie Europe, February 03, 2017
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White Paper 2016 on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr
Federal Government, July 2016
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What Germany can teach the US about democracy
Simon Kuper, Financial Times, February 9, 2017
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Populism

Populism is not a coherent transatlantic trend
Bruce Stokes (PEW Rearch Center), EU Observer, January 5, 2017
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Survey: People’s Trust Has Declined in Business, Media, Government, and NGOs
Matthew Harrington, Harvard Business Review, January 16, 2017
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Real Citizens
„The defining feature of populism is not anti-elitism but anti-pluralism. Populists claim that they, and they alone, represent the “real” people.“
Jan-Werner Müller, Boston Review, October 26, 2016
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Remedies Against Populism
Matthias Freise, atlantic-community.org, January 04, 2017
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Hyperpartisan Sites And Facebook Pages Are Publishing False Stories And Conspiracy Theories About Angela Merkel
„Top-performing Merkel stories in both English and German are dominated by a string of highly critical, and often misleading, articles and headlines from websites that consistently publish fake news and conspiracy theories.“
Alberto Nardelli, Buzzfeed, January 14, 2017
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Angela Merkel says internet search engines are ‘distorting perception’ and algorithms should be revealed
Harriet Agerholm, The Independent, October 27, 2016
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Migration, Integration

What Do Europeans Think About Muslim Immigration?
„Overall, across all 10 of the European countries an average of 55% agreed that all further migration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped, 25% neither agreed nor disagreed and 20% disagreed.“
Chatham House, February 7, 2017
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Digital Economy

Sharing, Gigs, On-Demand: Opportunities and Risks of the New Digital Economy
Natalie Rauscher, atlantic-community.org, November 24, 2016
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Moral panic over fake news hides the real enemy – the digital giants
Evgeny Morozov, Guaridan, January 8, 2017
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Cyber Security

How Germany Can Counter Russian Hacking. A Cyber Program for Berlin
Germany should heed the call of Dt Telekom CEO Höttges to create a “NATO for the Internet.”
Tyson Barker and Tim Stuchtey, Foreign Affairs, December 15, 2016
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Education, Research, Media

Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Brookings Institution expand their existing cooperation
Brookings, February 6, 2017
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Germany Needs to Address Fake News and Digital Illiteracy
Jayadev Parida, atlantic-community.org, January 06, 2017
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This education startup is teaching kids how to spot fake news
Chris Weller, Business Insider, January 10, 2017
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Covering Politics in a “Post-Truth” America
Susan B Glasser, December 2, 2016
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Have a look at our Resources page for more recommendations, especially introductory texts on transatlantic relations.

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