Essay Armin Huttenlocher 27. January 2019 Every Attack on a Jew is an Attack on the Liberal World 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...
Didi Kirsten Tatlow 22. November 2018 Cultural Relativism and Power Blindness: Some critical observations on the state of Germany’s China debate 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...
Essay Ralf Fücks 07. November 2018 Liberalism is dead, long live Liberalism! 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...
Analysis Ralf Fücks 15. October 2018 Notes From Berlin — A Political Earthquake in Bavaria A summary of the elections in Bavaria, one of the major German states with more then 9 million voters.
Analysis Sandra Detzer und Sebastian Schaffer 24. August 2018 The Comeback of the Swedish Center Party – an Eco-Liberal Story of Hope for Europe? Sandra Detzer und Sebastian Schaffer of the German Greens travel to Sweden where the right-wing-populist “Sweden Democrats” could win the election in September. But where danger is, rescue also grows:...
From the Media Ralf Fücks 04. April 2018 Surviving the Storm: Liberal Democracy in Times of Change Society is caught up in a whirlwind of change. The power of liberal democracies is dwindling and the political balance in the world is shifting. An interview with Ralf Fücks on...
Dahlia Scheindlin 21. March 2018 Populist nativism of the East, West and Israel The anti-liberal revolt ist not limited to the US and Europe. Tendencies towards an ‘illiberal democracy’ and ethnic nationalism can be observed in Israel as well. The Israeli author Dahlia...
Ralf Fücks 05. March 2018 Notes From Berlin — Another Fast Roundup of Current Political Developments in Germany What the decision for another „Grand Coalition” led by Chancellor Merkel implies for Germany, EU and the Transatlantic Alliance.
Comment Ralf Fücks 08. February 2018 Coalition agreement: The prolongation of the present into the future In the coalition agreement, the CDU and the SPD dodge important reforms and take a scattershot approach to the distribution of a great deal of money. The big challenges, like climate, demographic...
Matthias Meisner 05. February 2018 Far-right extremists in the Bundestag: Radical delegates from Saxony The five AfD Members of the Bundestag from Saxony are among the most radical in the party’s (Alternative for Germany) parliamentary group. At a party event near Pirna, the party base...
Analysis Karen Horn 31. January 2018 Freedom in Modern Times Karen Horn reminds us of forgotten, pioneering thinkers on liberty and highlights the necessary contradiction within which a modern liberalism exists: the tension between limiting state influence and recognizing that influence...
Video 23. January 2018 Ivan Krastev: “Because of the Crisis, the EU Will Become a More Political Union” The EU as we knew it does not exist anymore. This is Ivan Krastev’s point of departure. The optimistic belief in the idea of progress that was widely held during...
Essay Micha Brumlik 15. December 2017 Hegel, Rawls and Mill: On the Grounds of a Modern Liberalism There can be no liberal modernity without social justice, which is why nothing can surpass the social democratic idea, which has been marginalized in the current SPD. Anyone, who is...
Essay Ralf Fücks 23. November 2017 What’s driving the anti-liberal revolt? And what should we do about it? The rapid pace of modernisation renders people susceptible to populism. In cosmopolitan milieus, this came as a surprise. Yet the warning signs had long been apparent.
