United States

Plakat mit dem Text 'Fossil Fuel Fantasy = Carbon Capture Storage'

Climate pragmatism or Faustian bargain? What the new US climate law does—and where it fails

The US Congress has passed the most comprehensive American climate legislation ever. With President Biden's signature, the $369 billion package is now law. What's in it?

By Liane Schalatek

A transatlantic climate alliance? A closer look at the tensions between European and US approaches to climate policy

Analysis

A different policy mix of climate protection in the U.S. and EU creates tensions that make a close alliance very difficult. The deep political divide in the U.S. also raises doubts about the durability of climate policy cooperation.

By Jörg Haas

Auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Klima-Außenpolitik

22nd Foreign Policy Conference

Dossier

The aggravating climate crisis has made the implementation of the Paris Agreement a central issue in German and European foreign policy. However, the integration of climate and foreign policy is still fraught with uncertainties. How to succeed with international climate cooperation? Our Foreign Policy Conference on January 13, 20 and 27 January 2022 will focus on these questions.

Reflecting on 9/11, perspectives from a young American

Commentary

The twentieth anniversary of 9/11 and the United States’ disastrous pullout from Afghanistan has prompted a reckoning. But it’s not a new one.

By Genevieve Glatsky

A white rose on the 9/11 Memorial in New York

Twenty years later, remembering a Tuesday in September

Commentary

Looking back, now with Information Age lenses, 9/11’s aftermath lessons are full of virtues, yet to be capitalized.

By Cora Lewis

“A new era is going to start soon”

Interview

Interview with Rahmatullah Amiri on the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan and the increasing challenges for the peace process and civil society.

By Marion Regina Müller and Sarah Weiss

Between Hard and Soft Power

E-Paper

Although political debates were for the most part overshadowed by the Corona crisis at the beginning of 2021, this E-Paper wants to address the question of how the European Union could find its place in a more competitive world. The buzzwords of this debate were the concepts of strategic autonomy and strategic sovereignty of the EU.

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