The focus of DGAP’s research and consulting on this core theme is the interdependency of technology and foreign policy. Technological innovation — as well as the diffusion and impact of emerging technologies — is always influenced by the social, economic, and (security) policy contexts in which it occurs. At the same time, technologies affect international actors by changing their areas of influence, options for action, and goals. Today, technology not only continues to play a role in determining foreign and security policy in the classical sense, but it also almost always includes an international dimension, for example in its consequences for regulation or global chains of supply and production.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Washington is a symbolic capstone to a 16-year era US-German cooperation under her leadership. It also sets the stage for a new chapter of US-German ties, one more fit for the challenges of the next decade.
