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Episode 76: Energy, Trade, and Security—Germany’s Expanded Zeitenwende with FDP Caucus Leader Christian Dürr
February 09, 2023

On this episode of the Zeitgeist, our guest is FDP Bundestag Caucus Leader Christian Drr. He and AGI President Jeff Rathke discuss how Germany has reset its energy policy, the

Episode 75: What Germany’s Solution to its Tank Dilemma Tells Us about the Zeitenwende?
January 27, 2023

On this episode of the Zeitgeist, AGI President Jeff Rathke talks with Dr. Liana Fix, Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss ongoing challenges in Germanys

Episode 74: Antidemocratic Insurrections and Populist Uprising—Germany, Brazil, and the United States
January 12, 2023

In December 2022, German authorities arrested dozens of people tied to an alleged right-wing extremist plot to overthrow the German government. Among the accused are a member of a former

Episode 73: 2022—A Year in Review
December 22, 2022

As 2022 draws to a close, AGI President Jeff Rathke, AGI Senior Fellow and Director of Society, Culture, and Politics Program Eric Langenbacher and AGI Non-Resident Senior Fellow Klaus-Dieter Frankenb

Episode 72: Germany’s Foreign Policy Reorientation—A Zeitenwende Conversation with Roderich Kiesewetter MdB
November 17, 2022

On this episode of The Zeitgeist, AICGS President Jeff Rathke sits down with Roderich Kiesewetter, ranking member of the CDU/CSU faction in the Foreign Relations Committee of the German Bundestag,

Episode 71: Economic Boom, Income Disparity, and Climate Change in Glendale, AZ
November 03, 2022

On this episode of The Zeitgeist, AICGS President Jeff Rathke talks with participants in the AICGS project on social divisions in Germany and the United States, which recently visited Glendale,

Episode 70: Germany and Systemic Competition with China and Russia—A Conversation with Johannes Vogel
October 27, 2022

On this episode of The Zeitgeist, AICGS President Jeff Rathke sits down with Johannes Vogel, Deputy Chairman of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the FDPs Chief Whip in the

Episode 69: Germany’s Shifting Political Landscape: Through the Lens of the Lower Saxony Elections
October 13, 2022

On this episode of the Zeitgeist, AICGS President Jeff Rathke, AICGS Senior Fellow and Director of Society, Culture, and Politics Program Eric Langenbacher and AICGS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Klaus-D

Episode 68: U.S.-German Economic Relations and a Changing Global Landscape
October 05, 2022

On this episode of The Zeitgeist, AICGS President Jeff Rathke and Peter Rashish, Director of the AICGS Geoeconomics Program, discuss the state of German-American economic relations and the countries

Episode 67: Will Germany’s Zeitenwende Stick?
September 27, 2022

Following Russias invasion of Ukraine in February, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared a Zeitenwende, a historic turning point for Germanys security and defense policy. Scholz pledged to set up