Germany

“It Would Be a Mistake to Grant Him His Wish”

October 27, 2021

Christian Lindner would be unsuitable as finance minister – but would make a good minister of digital affairs, according to economists Joseph E. Stiglitz and

The future of Europe is at stake in the fight for Germany’s finance ministry

October 20, 2021

A fiscal conservative in the job and a new era of debt limitation could spell disaster for EU countries The result of the German election

The Post-Merkel Return of German Ideologies

September 17, 2021

After years of consensus, a new era of division is set to roil German politics at home and abroad. In what may prove to be

Columbia DC, 150th anniversary of German unification: Bismarck, Realpolitik, and Birth of a Nation

150th anniversary of German unification: Bismarck, Realpolitik, and Birth of a Nation With Columbia DC

June 24, 2021

Napoleon’s invasion smashed the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and with it what was left of the early modern/medieval frame. Class strife in the wake

Was ist die grüne Erzählung von Politik und Emotionen?

June 14, 2021

Das große Rad drehen: Ökonomie und Psychologie der ökologisch-sozialen Transformation Moderiert von Ellen Ueberschär (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung) entwickeln Adam Tooze (Columbia University NY), Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die

To the Bitter End

December 5, 2019

Emil Nolde: The Artist during the Third Reichedited by Bernhard Fulda, Aya Soika and Christian Ring.Prestel, 320 pp., £45, May 2019, 978 3 7913 5894

The German Impasse

November 12, 2019

The autumn of 2019 is a moment of anniversaries. The 30th anniversary of German unification has garnered much attention. Rather less remarked upon has been

Germany Chooses Economic Nostalgia Over Saving the Planet

October 31, 2019

When Kristalina Georgieva had to choose a panel for her debut as managing director of the International Monetary Fund at the organization’s fall meeting, the

Grosse Koaltion, Small Klimapaket

September 30, 2019

In Germany Friday September 20th 2019 was billed as the moment at which Angela Merkel’s Grosse Koalition would reclaim leadership in climate politics. There was

Which is worse? Germany divided

July 18, 2019

This year is both the 70th anniversary of the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the 30th anniversary of the fall of the

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