Josef Braml

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Josef M. Braml (* 1968 in Regen ) is a German political scientist and author.

Life

After completing his commercial training and studying language, economics and culture at the University of Passau and the Université de Nice , Braml received his doctorate in 2001 in Passau in the subjects of political science, sociology and French cultural studies. Since October 2006 he has been a research assistant for the USA / Transatlantic Relations program at DGAP . As such, he is the director and editor of the International Politics yearbook .

The main focus of his work is the American "world order" and transatlantic relations. In doing so, he includes the security, energy and trade policy of the USA in his analyzes, as well as the economic and domestic political framework conditions of American foreign policy. Braml compares governance styles, for example in the German and US government systems.

Positions

The American patient

In relation to the 2012 presidential elections, Braml said that whoever became president was almost indifferent due to the US's limited scope for action. In his work "The American Patient" he analyzed the socio-economic collapse of the USA and its dangerous global political consequences. He regards private and above all public overindebtedness, the decline in consumption, the shift of the economy from production to "posthuman" financial services, neoliberal deregulation , the welfare state and educational backwardness, the lack of raw materials and energy, the social one as the main factors of the crisis in the USA Imbalance due to concentrated wealth and growing mass poverty as well as oversized military spending. He sees global political consequences (as of May 2016) in the possible rivalry with China for resources, in the shifting of responsibility and costs to the European allies and in a new protectionism.

Decay of democracy

In 2016, Braml put the main emphasis of his US criticism on the decline of democracy and on TTIP and emphasized the importance of the outcome of the presidential election in November 2016 . In his view, democracy is increasingly being replaced by a “ post-democracy ” clientele policy in which lobbyists instrumentalize politics for their own purposes. The bulk of the population is politically insignificant, their participation in the economy and politics marginal. Democratic, constitutional and social interests or needs increasingly ranked behind economic interests or security interests. The problems of racism and the immigration society are still unsolved.

In the situation of weakness and the threat of new challenges, there is a risk that the USA will want to retain its hegemonic position by all means. The most important plus point of the USA is its technological lead, which it will use particularly in surveillance technology (see also NSA , Global Surveillance and Espionage Affair since 2013 ).

TTIP / TPP

Braml warns of the dangers of the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TTIP), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) or similar agreements, as they are part of the global geopolitics of the USA, which is about economic dominance, especially vis-à-vis China. This becomes clear in the current arms race and also in the contractual models that exclude China and its market.

Europe, and above all the leading European power Germany, should, in its own interest, adjust to the increasingly clear enemy image of the USA.

NSA

Braml (as of 2013) sees less of the need for security than economic motives behind the worldwide spying of all data (as of 2013) to gain an advantage over competitors. Ultimately, it's also about the US dollar as the key currency and the euro as a competitor.

The dollar as the world's leading currency is counted. Americans have to be prepared for the fact that the unipolar world order, in which the dollar has dominated, will transform into a multipolar one. In other words, in addition to the dollar, there is a strong euro and a Chinese renminbi, which is increasingly changing from a regional to an international currency.

According to Braml, the USA is therefore interested in knowing exactly what is going on in economic policy.

Publications

  • The American patient. What the threatening collapse of the USA means for the world . Siedler Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3886809981
  • At the expense of freedom: the sellout of American democracy and the consequences for Europe . 2016, ISBN 978-3869950860
  • The Political System of the USA , Federal Agency for Political Education No. 320/2013.
  • Menopause: America Between The Elections . Bavarian State Center for Political Education , 2012
  • The Religious Right and US Middle East Policy , Emirates Occasional Paper (EOP) Series (Internat. Peer Review), No. 59, Abu Dhabi: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), 2005.
  • America, God and the world. George W. Bush's foreign policy on a Christian right-wing basis . Matthes & Seitz Berlin , 2005.
  • Think tanks versus “think tanks”? US and German Policy Research Institutes' Coping with and Influencing Their Environments; Strategies, Management and Organization of Policy-Oriented Research Institutes (German summary) / With a foreword by Winand Gellner ; Nomos 2004.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Josef Braml . In: DGAP eV ( dgap.org [accessed May 7, 2018]).
  2. ↑ USA expert Josef Braml: "It would be desirable for the political bickering to stop". In: www.wiwo.de. Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
  3. ↑ - The sick man at the Potomac. In: Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
  4. ^ "Selling out American Democracy" - a warning. In: hpd.de. Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
  5. ↑ FOCUS Online: What happens in the US, we will get to feel here. In: FOCUS Online. Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
  6. ↑ https://dgap.org/de/article/getFullPDF/28009
  7. ^ Steffen Richter: wiretapping scandal: "The interest in Merkel's cell phone is economically justified" . In: The time . October 24, 2013, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on May 25, 2016]).
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SURNAME Braml, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braml, Josef M .; Yue se fu Bu la mu; Yuesefu-Bulamu; Bulamu, Yuesefu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
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