Research on the broad complex of issues surrounding the implications of resource scarcity for the new geopolitical environment.
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Globalization has brought great challenges to the western centric system which has dominated politics for the last three hundred years.
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The research theme for the first year centers on the movement of peoples and how these movements are affecting North American and European societies.
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The Transatlantic Academy is a scholarly forum for addressing the mutual challenges facing transatlantic relations in the coming years.
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Partners
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a nonpartisan American public policy and grantmaking institution dedicated to promoting greater cooperation and understanding between the United States and Europe.
The Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius ZEIT-Stiftung aims to strengthen civilian society. The independent and charitable foundation promotes private endeavor that benefits society in a spirit of civic responsibility.
The Robert Bosch Foundation is one of the largest German company-affiliated foundations. The foundation's goal is to advance science and research by supporting young German academics and researchers abroad.
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles, and values that sustain and nurture it.
The Transatlantic Academy gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of the Transatlantic Program of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany through funds of the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
Immigration
The following sub themes will be examined in this context:
The integration of immigrants: Including concepts of inclusion, diversity, (post ethnic) civic nationalism in Europe and North America, examination of experience in the southern peripheries of Europe and the US from Northern African countries into the EU and Latin American countries to the US. Studies of urban experiences including the lo cal consequences and management of migration, service provision, diversity management, neighborhood relations and political participation on lower levels.
The development of sustainable migration policy regimes: including an examination of the consequences of the currently applied "welcome the skilled, rotate the unskilled"-policy of most Western countries.
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Migration, civil liberties and security: including the nexus of migration, terrorism and crime in Europe and North America.
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Data analysis: Analysis of survey research data on attitudes relating to migration, perception of immigrants and the economic impact of migration in western societies.
Applicant Info
Applications for research on the 2011-2012 theme - The Competition for Natural Resources: The New Geopolitical Great Game? - will be reviewed beginning May 10, 2010 with offers made by September 1, 2010. Download the fellowship application.
For more information, please contact Anna Murphy, Program Associate, Transatlantic Academy.
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