On November 16 the ACG and 1014, as part of their virtual series Democracies under Pressure: Challenges for the Global Liberal Order, held a discussion with Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, CEO and Managing Director of Food Systems for the Future, and Alexander Müller, Founder and Managing Director of TMG – Think Tank for Sustainability in Berlin, about global food insecurity, its causes including the war in Ukraine, and some of the challenges and opportunities that exist to alleviate the crisis.
On November 15, as part of their virtual series Democracies under Pressure: Challenges for the Global Liberal Order, the ACG and 1014 held a discussion with Dr. John Glenn, Senior Director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, and Sarah Pagung, an Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), about authoritarian influence through interference in elections ranging from disputing results to manipulating or pre-determining election outcomes.
On November 14, the ACG and the Tennessee World Affairs Council held a discussion with Putin biographers and Russia experts, Katja Gloger, and Andrew S. Weiss (ACG Young Leader), the James Family Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the war in Ukraine.
On November 14 the ACG held its weekly Kaffeepause with journalist Miriam Hollstein, (2008 ACG McCloy Fellow) Chief Reporter for T-Online in Berlin.
On October 20 the ACG hosted a discussion with German journalists Annett Meiritz, U.S. Correspondent for Handelsblatt, and Juliane Schäuble, U.S. Correspondent of Der Tagesspiegel, about the U.S. midterms – and how the election is being perceived in Europe.