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.
Global Shift
The Transatlantic Community and the New Geopolitics
Transatlantic Academy theme for 2010-2011
Call for Proposals
The Transatlantic Academy is seeking candidates to serve as resident Fellows for ten months beginning in September 2010. A joint project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Harry and Lynde Bradley Foundation, the Transatlantic Academy is located at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC. The academy brings together scholars from Europe and North America to work on a single set of issues facing the transatlantic community. The academy is an interdisciplinary institution which is open to all social science disciplines. For more information on the Academy please visit our website at www.transatlanticacademy.org. The academy welcomes applications from scholars working on the theme of Global Shift: the Transatlantic Community and the New Geopolitics.
Background
Globalization has brought great challenges to the western centric system which has dominated politics for the last three hundred years. The transatlantic area faces the prospect of becoming a smaller and less powerful player in the world system by the middle of this century. A relative decline has already begun in demographic terms. Less than three percent of world population growth over the next twenty years will be in the West. In addition to demographic decline, many scenario exercises and policy planning reports foresee a relative decline of western economic influence over the next half century.
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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