Please join us for our third German Studies colloquium of the 2013-2014 academic year, presented by Prof. Dr. Crister S. Garrett, Professor for American Culture and History at the University of Leipzig in Saxony, Germany. Prof. Garrett's biography can be found here. The theme of his talk will be Contesting Economic Governance: Germany, the EU, and Transatlantic Discourses of Economic Reform and Regulation. Note: this colloquium will take place on Wednesday of this week, due to the German Studies Association convention in Denver. Please join us in welcoming Prof. Garrett to Tucson! A description of his talk is below:
"Polling data on both sides of the Atlantic make clear that economic security is by a clear margin the most important policy priority among voters. The key however is how different polities debate and decide on what is actually meant by economic security. Germany finds itself as a central actor in a European and transatlantic debate about what should be the basic content of any model of economic security. While Berlin and Brussels compete to determine the decisive narrative for EU economic governance and government, the European debate is clearly embedded in a transatlantic space that underscores the intersections between national, regional, and transnational economic reform and regulation. The resulting contested economic governance will determine much of the course and content of German power and influence in European, transatlantic, and global politics during the years to come."
