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Debate ​ 29. June 2021

Putin’s Poi­soned Chalice*

An answer to Wladimir Putin’s fine tuned op-ed in the German weekly Die Zeit by Ralf Fücks, Center for Liberal Modernity.

Foto: Sergei Mal­gavko / TASS /​ Imago Images

Essay Maria Zolkina 08. April 2021

Russian esca­la­tion in Ukraine and what it means for Ukrain­ian-Russian relations

Since January 2021 there has been growing mil­i­tary esca­la­tion in con­flict-affected areas of Donbas. Russia has built up mil­i­tary equip­ment deploy­ment along the Russian-Ukrain­ian border, repo­si­tioned its army and strengthened...

Foto: Shutterstock, qwret

Analysis Aksana Lutskaya 06. February 2021

The Birth of a new civil society in Belarus vs. a “Euro­pean North Korea”

While vio­lence thrives in silence, it has no chance to persist if brought to public atten­tion. Inter­na­tional atten­tion and support to the people in Belarus are now more crucial than...

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.

Zwischenruf

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...

Trum Kamoagne

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.

Paris Cafe Beitragsbild

‌​ 15. November 2017

Mission State­ment — LibMod

What’s the Center for Liberal Moder­nity is about.

Essay ​ 

Who We Are and What We Want

About the motives for found­ing a Center for Liberal Modernity.