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Analysis Ralf Fücks, Marieluise Beck 08. September 2020

Russia and the Germans – a com­pli­cated affair

In Germany, a major­ity favour closer ties with Russia despite new autho­ri­an­ism under Putin, mil­i­tary aggres­sion against Ukraine and bombing in Syria. Where does the desire for a special rela­tion­ship with Russia...

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...

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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...

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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...

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.