Analysis Ralf Fücks 13. July 2020 Soviet Nostalgia and Great Power Aspirations Ahead to the Past – The World in the Mind of Putin Эту статью можно читать и на русском
Dossier 02. July 2020 Program “Eastern Partnership Plus” With its “Eastern Partnership 2.0” project, LibMod is bringing perspectives from Georgia, Moldova and the Ukraine to Berlin’s and Brussels’ policy circles.
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...
17. June 2020 Understanding Ukraine Ukraine is undergoing profound transformation. One click will take you to the website www.ukraineverstehen.de, where you will find information, analyses and reports on the latest developments in the country. With a dedicated...
Liberal democracy and its adversaries: Antiliberal thought from Weimar to the present day This aim of LibMod’s “Liberal Democracy and Its Adversaries” project is to examine the “long lines” of antiliberal thought and discuss its relevance for the debate of today. The project’s...
Policy Paper John Lough 31. October 2019 Belarus: Danger ahead – EU response needed Many EU capitals regard Belarus as an extension of Russia and take little interest in it. EU leaders are also uncomfortable dealing with its long-time autocratic leader, Alexander Lukashenka. Such...
Press Release Ralf Fücks 22. May 2019 Security in Times of Change An introduction to our report and a summary of our results.
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.
Attila Juhasz 16. April 2018 After the Elections: Hungary Divided The elections on April 8, 2018 gave Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party another two-thirds majority in parliament. Attila Juhasz explains why this does not imply a broad support for the concept of ‘illiberale democracy’. The hungarian...
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, Marieluise Beck 18. March 2018 Understanding Russia A Russian agent who switched sides is attacked with a military-grade nerve agent in a provincial English town. Prime Minister May holds Moscow responsible for the attack. Are we back in the...
Antonella Forganni 28. February 2018 Elections in Italy: Sliding Slowly, Eyes Wide Open, into Durable Decline During the election campaign, appealing to people’s anger and demonizing the opponents is the most common strategy. Political programs hardly matter. The political landscape is highly fragmented. In election polls,...
Marieluise Beck 19. February 2018 Three years after Minsk II: Where are we now? Recapitulation of a faltering peace process: the second Minsk Agreement of February 2015, intended to put an end to the war in eastern Ukraine and to set a political process in motion,...
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...
Jan Minx 25. January 2018 More Courage Needed to Protect the Climate The rapid development of wind and solar energy alone will not put an end to climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise around the world. Even Germany has not...
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.
