31. May 2021 International Conference “Security in Times of Rapid Change” When? June 23rd, 10am — 5.30pm (CEST) Where? Digital via Zoom and analogous in Berlin if possible (registration required) The world is changing rapidly. Digitalization, the conversion towards a climate neutral economy, the corona...
Analysis Artyom Shraibman 14. May 2021 Belarus: Revolution Suppressed or Postponed? The protests in Belarus in 2020 did not lead to a change in government. But Lukashenko’s chosen way of brutal suppression will not gain him any popular support — and is...
Kommentar Ludwig Greven 12. March 2021 “We will put an end to the corrupt and anti-democratic rule of Viktor Orban.” — Interview with MEP Anna Júlia Donáth Anna Donath, MEP, comments on Orban’s FIDESZ Party leaving the European People Party’s (EPP) faction in the European Parliament and a new alliance of the Hungarian opposition gainst the anti-european Prime...
22. September 2020 Online-Discussion: Security in Times of Change Lessons learned from Covid-19: Ralf Fuecks discusses with Anthony Giddens
Analysis Artyom Shraibman 30. June 2020 Whom the West should support in Belarus? A time for a strategic approach Traditional opposition parties and movements has long seized to be a politically meaningful force in Belarus. It is time for Western decision-makers to finally admit this unpleasant reality and shift its...
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...
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.
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...
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...
