Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a panel discussion among Christine Landfried, Joyce Mushaben, Boris Vormann, and Steven Sokol (moderator) on looking ahead at Germany in 2021. Opening remarks will be provided by David Gill, the German Consul General in New York.
After four terms as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel will step down in 2021. The new leadership of the Christian Democratic Union is still being fought over by three rivaling candidates – Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet, and Norbert Roettgen – and will be determined in a (COVID-delayed) party congress to take place sometime before the federal election on September 26, 2021. Our panel of political scientists and thinkers will consider what Germany’s political future might look like in the absence of Angela Merkel, and which political coalitions the election results might bring. How will the country move forward? Will Merkel’s competent handling of the COVID pandemic lend a boost to the CDU? Who might Germany’s next chancellor be? What does this mean for Europe and the U.S.?
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About the panelists:
Christine Landfried is Professor emerita of Political Science at the University of Hamburg. From 2014 until 2016, she held the Max Weber Chair at NYU, and for the academic year 2016 to 2017, she was Senior Emile Noël Fellow at NYU School of Law. Since 2016, she is chairing the Advisory Board of the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB). She has taught at Sciences Po, the University of California at Berkeley, and at Yale Law School. She analyses the political role of constitutional courts, the impact of campaign finance on democratic governance and the process of European integration. In 2021, she will work as a Thomas Mann Fellow on a project about new forms of citizens’ participation in representative democracies.
Joyce Marie Mushaben (PRONOUNCE: MUS (like bus) – HAY (what horses eat)– BEN (big clock in London) )received her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1981. A Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Comparative Politics (Emerita) at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, she is now an Adjunct Faculty member in the BMW Center for German & European Studies at Georgetown University and works with Gender5 Plus, an EU feminist think-tank. Having spent over 18 years researching in Germany, her early work focused on new social movements (peace, feminism, anti-nuclear protests and neo-Nazi activism), German national identity and generational change. She then moved on to European Union Union developments, citizenship and migration policies, women’s leadership, Euro-Islam debates and comparative welfare state reforms. Her many publications include From Post-War to Post-Wall Generations: Changing Attitudes towards the National Question and NATO in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1995; Identity without a Hinterland? Continuity and Change in National Consciousness in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989; The Changing Faces of Citizenship: Integration and Mobilization among Ethnic Minorities in Germany; Gendering the European Union: New Responses to Old Democratic Deficits (with Gabriele Abels); Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017). Her current book-in progress centers on The Dialectical Identities of Eastern Germans: Re-assessing the Forces of Exit, Voice and Loyalty.
Prof. Mushaben has secured numerous international grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Marshall Fund, the Fulbright Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has served as a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, the GDR Academy for Social Sciences and the Central Institute for Youth Research (East Germany), as well as at universities in Tübingen, Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt/Main and Erfurt. She is commonly known as “Dr. J.”
Steven E. Sokol (moderator) is President of the American Council on Germany. He has more than 25 years of experience working on domestic and foreign policy issues with nonprofit organizations in Europe and the United States, including the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, the Aspen Institute Berlin, the Bonn International Center for Conversion GmbH, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the International City/County Management Association.
Boris Vormann is Professor of Politics and Director of the politics section at Bard College Berlin. His research focuses on the role of the state in globalization and urbanization processes; nations and nationalism; and the crisis of democracy. His most recent books are Democracy in Crisis: The Neoliberal Roots of Popular Unrest (with Christian Lammert, 2019), and Contours of the Illiberal State (2019).
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“A Look Ahead: Germany after Angela Merkel” is funded by the DAAD from funds of the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).
