German-American Relations in the 21st Century
German-American relations have become interesting again. U.S. President Donald Trumps lukewarm policy toward Europe has ensured that the relationship between Berlin and Washington is once again regarded as an important field of scholarship within global politics. And yet it was only a few years ago that German-American relations seemed to take second place to transatlantic relations in general, and the European Union (EU)USA relationship in particular. The advent of Donald Trump as US President in January 2017 has made all the difference. Trumps difficult personal relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and his denigration of everything the Western world including the USA itself has stood for since 1949, have given a new significance to German-American relations in practice and theory.
This volume offers an empirical and conceptual analysis of German-American relations in the 21st century and highlights the serious and perhaps unprecedented challenges the two countries face at present. The authors discuss a number of aspects of the current, much more fragile state of German-American relations from different perspectives.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal German Politics.
Klaus Larres is Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He is Senior Fellow in the Center of Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University/School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, DC, USA and a Visiting Professor at Schwarzman College/Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He also serves as Counselor and Senior Policy Adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing, China. His research focuses on relations among the USAEuropeChina, US foreign policy and transatlantic relations and the Cold War and the politics of Winston Churchill.
Ruth Wittlinger is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK. She has published extensively on memory and identity in post-unification Germany and Europe. She is author of German National Identity in the Twenty-First Century. In 2017, she was awarded a Lady Davis Visiting Professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
German-American Relations in the 21st Century
A Fragile Friendship
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The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal German Politics, volume 27, issue 2 (June 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Preface
Karsten Voigt
German Politics, volume 27, issue 2 (June 2018) pp. 147151
Introduction
A Fragile Friendship: GermanAmerican Relations in the Twenty-Firs Century
Klaus Larres and Ruth Wittlinger
German Politics, volume 27, issue 2 (June 2018) pp. 152157
Chapter 1
The 2003 Iraq War as a Turning Point in GermanAmerican Relations: Political Leadership and Alliance Cohesion
Dieter Dettke
German Politics, volume 27, issue 2 (June 2018) pp. 158173
Chapter 2
The End of Memory? German-American Relations under Donald Trump
Eric Langenbacher and Ruth Wittlinger
German Politics, volume 27, issue 2 (June 2018) pp. 174192
Chapter 3
Angela Merkel and Donald Trump Values, Interests, and the Future of the West
Klaus Larres
German Politics, volume 27, issue 2 (June 2018) pp. 193213
Chapter 4
The Global Financial Crisis and the Euro Crisis as Contentious Issues in German-American Relations
Christian Schweiger
German Politics, volume 27, issue 2 (June 2018) pp. 214229
Chapter 5
Different Approaches to Russia: The GermanAmericanRussian Strategic Triangle
Stephen F. Szabo
German Politics, volume 27, issue 2 (June 2018) pp. 230243
Chapter 6
Trading Places: Securitising Refugee and Asylum Policies in Germany and the United States
Joyce Marie Mushaben
German Politics, volume 27, issue 2 (June 2018) pp. 244264
Chapter 7
More Similar Than Different: Of Checks, Balances, and German and A merican Government Responses to International Terrorism
D. Hellmuth
German Politics, volume 27, issue 2 (June 2018) pp. 265281
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Dieter Dettke is Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA and Senior Fellow of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC, USA. He is author of numerous articles and book chapters on US, German and European political, economic and security issues as well as the book Allianz im Wandel; and also served as editor and author of The Spirit of the Berlin Republic. His most recent works are Hungarys Jobbik Party, the Challenge of European Ethno-Nationalism and the Future of the European Project, published in 2014, and Germany: From the Ashes of War to the Center of Power in Europe, published in 2016.
D. Hellmuth is Associate Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA and serves as Academic Director of the Politics Departments parliamentary internship programs in Europe. She is Non-Resident Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Washington, DC, USA and serves as Fellow at the German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies (GIRDS). Her research and teaching covers world politics, particularly the study of transatlantic security, counterterrorism, counter-radicalization, homeland security, European and general comparative politics and American foreign policy.