Russia and the West
Do We Need a New Ost­poli­tik?

An Open Letter to the Par­lia­men­tary Assem­bly of the Council of Europe: Please don’t deprive your­self of the right to impose sanc­tions on member states that are vio­lat­ing the statutes...

An intro­duc­tion to our report and a summary of our results.

On this date 74 years ago, the Red Army lib­er­ated the Auschwitz-Birke­­­nau exter­mi­na­tion camp. The 27th of January became the Day of Remem­brance for the Victims of National Social­ism. Much has...

On January 17 the Centre for Liberal Moder­nity held its second inter­na­tional Russia con­fer­ence. This year’s topic was if Germany’s policy of detente of the 1970s can offer any guid­ance...

The book dis­cussed below (Why we need peace and freedom with Russia) explic­itly presents itself as an appeal for a change in Germany’s policy towards Russia. It brings together authors from...

For decades, Sinol­o­gists who were largely blind to China’s expan­sive power pol­i­tics have dom­i­nated Germany’s polit­i­cal advice circles, cul­ti­vat­ing an image of China that our author calls “Late Ori­en­tal­ism”. Shaped...

Over the last 200 years, Lib­er­al­ism has been a stun­ning success story. It brought forward liberty and pros­per­ity for the many instead of priv­i­leges for the few. Yet, today liberal think­ing and...

A summary of the elec­tions in Bavaria, one of the major German states with more then 9 million voters.

With the annex­a­tion of Crimea and the unde­clared war in Eastern Ukraine, the Russian lead­er­ship gravely vio­lates the prin­ci­ples of the Euro­pean peace order. In response, the Par­lia­men­tary Assem­bly of...