Last week marked the closing conference of the Transatlantic Academy. For the last nine years, the Transatlantic Academy has brought together scholars and policy experts to explore different dimensions of the transatlantic relationship. For the final year, we focused on the relationship between Germany and the United States. The launch of the Transatlantic Academy’s report Suspicious Minds comes at an interesting moment.
The report’s timing is auspicious for two reasons. First, we had an election in the United States last November, which led to a president who has a nontraditional view of the relationship with Germany. Second, this September’s election …read more