October 25, 2019
Germany and the State of the Transatlantic Relationship with Julie Smith
Julie Smith, Director of the Asia Program at The German Marshall Fund, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to recap her year as the Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. Smith explains the state of German politics, foreign policy, and perceptions of the transatlantic relationship in Europe.
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