The ACG and Atlantik-Brücke will host a digital discussion as part of the 2020 German-American Conference on COVID-19 and the Mess it Creates for the Global Economy.  Speakers: Dr. John Lipsky, Peter G. Peterson Distinguished Scholar, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies; former First Managing Director, International...

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, cities are faced with unprecedented challenges. The ACG will host a series of conversations with ACG program alumni and other experts, who work at the local level, on how local communities are confronting the myriad challenges posed by the pandemic. Join us for the first conversation on Friday,...

Resilience and Adaptation: Challenges to Democracy during the Corona Crisis The pandemic is challenging democratic institutions and practices all around the world. Governments have an obligation to respect the basic rights of citizens in uncertain times – but are they? Join Stefan Kornelius and Kori Schake for a conversation about how democracies respond to this unprecedented crisis. Stefan Kornelius has...

Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, far-right parties in Europe were dominating the headlines with provocations on government failures and anti-immigrant rhetoric and significantly influencing political debates in Germany and other European countries. The pandemic has changed the political dynamic, in some cases weakening the far-right’s popularity, and in other cases, like Hungary, enabling far-right...

Resilience and Adaptation: The Future of Liberal Democracy and the Corona Crisis Are autocracies better positioned to fight pandemics than democracies? Join American political scientist and author Francis Fukuyama and Daniela Schwarzer, Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, for a discussion about how the current crisis is handled by different regimes. Please register here.