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Intro -- Introduction -- 1. Stepping Over Boundaries: Materials, Methodology and Theory -- Introduction -- 1.1 Against Wrongful Restrictions: On the Advantages of Interdisciplinarity -- 1.2 Reconstituting Culture: On the Significance of Social Movements -- 1.3 Life Is the Method: On the Sisterhood of Biography and Society -- 1.4 Popular Is Not Enough: On Popular Culture and Politics -- 1.5 A Critical View of a Critical Theorist: How a Bad Frankfurt Pupil Can Still Be Politically Active -- 1.5.1 Music for More Than Music's Sake: On the Credibility of Politically Engaged Artists -- 1.5.2 Words Do Not Change Society: Theory Versus Practice -- 1.5.2.1 On Fictitious Freedom -- 1.5.2.2 On the Credibility of Hazy Categories -- 1.5.2.3 On the Passiveness of Theories -- 2. "The Kingdom of Childhood"8: Major Moments of the 1950s -- Introduction -- 2.1 Religion Without Violence: Joan Baez and the Quakers -- 2.2 Becoming Someone Who Was Alright: On Singing Against Isolation -- 2.3 The Birth of a Passion: Iraq, 1951 -- 2.4 Preparing for the March on Washington: Joan Baez and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 2.5 Another Teacher of Pacifism: Jewish Scholar Ira Sandperl -- 3. On Refusal Without Violence: Joan Baez and Henry David Thoreau -- 4. High School Activist and Folk Music Revivalist -- Introduction -- 4.1 Conservative Nostalgia About the 1950s -- 4.2 Pedagogy of Paranoia: Activist for the First Time -- 4.3 The Soundtrack of the American Counterculture: Joan Baez and the Folk Music Revival -- 5. Postwar Fractures in Society: Joan Baez in the 1960s -- Introduction -- 5.1 Doubted Demarcations: American Society and Change in the 1960s -- 5.2 Going Further than Allowed: Joan Baez and the Civil Rights Movement -- 5.3 When Students More than Studied: Joan Baez and the Free Speech Movement -- 5.4 Playing Domino: Joan Baez Against the Vietnam War.

Mit Donald Trump müssten die Europäer beim Thema Handel erneut mit großen transatlantischen Spannungen rechnen. Eine EU-Politik der Stärke wäre die richtige Antwort. (IP)

The geo-economic conflict between the United States and China as well as uncertainty about America's longer-term commitment to a liberal and rules-based multilateral order pose risks to Germany's economic prosperity and national security. The new German government must systematically identify economic dependencies and develop a forward-looking and comprehensive strategy to address vulnerabilities.

Germany is at risk of sustaining collateral damage in the face of intensifying US-Chinese competition and conflict. China's ascendance and America's desire to preserve the status quo lock Beijing and Washington into a classic security dilemma. The United States sees China as a potential regional hegemon in Asia and as an emerging global systemic challenger. China sees the United States as impeding its rise. Security competition is already well underway. So are geo-economic and geo-technological competition and conflict. For Germany, a position of relative neutrality or equidistance is not an option, it should consider pursuing a multi-track approach.

Although President Biden has made US foreign policy more predictable, its medium- and long-term direction and concomitant implications for transatlantic relations are less certain. This report presents three scenarios of how US strategy might evolve. They provide insight into how the United States behaves in the spheres of security and international economy under different conditions and why, suggesting ways for the EU and Germany to preemptively mitigate risks and positively influence future policy.

In a world marked by geopolitical competition, the United States is taking measures to restrict the diffusion of technologies it considers essential to its security and economy. To make its regime more effective, Washington will pressure its allies to align their policies. Germany, due to its international economic integration, risks being squeezed between American demands and possible Chinese retaliation. Its best option would be to establish an EU regime for screening outbound investment. Failing that, Berlin needs to set up a national mechanism based on the following points: Germany needs to identify which existing and emerging technologies will be critical to national security and economic-technological leadership. To this end, the government should establish a scientific advisory council and consult widely. Restricting technology transfers comes with short-term economic costs, but it may also enhance longer-term national security. Policies should be sensitive to these trade-offs. Berlin should prepare for retaliation by countries affected by technology-focused investment restrictions. It also needs to strengthen defenses against industrial espionage.
Any policy on outbound investment should be embedded in a broader national economic security strategy to be maximally effective. This should include inward investment restrictions and export controls.

Cross-border investment and trade give rise to both economic gains and economic vulnerabilities. As geopolitical competition is intensifying, governments increasingly resort to restricting cross-border investment and trade. Policies are informed by a desire to limit security risks and secure technological advantages rather than pursue efficiency gains.

Looking at Russia's experiences with Western sanctions, China is even more eager than before to reduce its dependence on the US-dominated international financial and currency regime. To that end, it is promoting the renminbi as an international currency. Success, however, has been limited. To do better, Beijing would have to implement reforms that are economically very risky.

Geo-economic policies have become an increasingly important feature of international politics - and not just since the war in Ukraine. The EU has proposed an economic anti-coercion tool to deter third-party coercion. This policy brief analyses the risks and benefits as well as the challenges related to the EU's proposed deterrence policy based on a review of the academic literature on coercion and the effectiveness of economic sanctions.