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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Understanding Gauland – how to think about radical right leadershipWhat's the importance of radical right leadership? A discussion of Olaf Sundermeyer’s, Gauland. Die Rache des alten...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Radical-right backlash against Games of Belonging: the case of Mesut ÖzilÖzil, like many others, has repeatedly stated that he would prefer to play for both national football teams if...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn the need to shape the Arab exile body in BerlinA long essay on why the Arab intellectual community in Berlin needs to acquire a name, shape, and a mandate of sorts.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Can left nationalism stop the rise of the far-right in Germany?Left-wing parties and movements across Europe employing anti-globalisation and anti-EU rhetoric are on the increase....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Theresa May, Max Weber, Brexit, and political leadershipMay doesn’t believe in Brexit at all, but behaves as though she does, indeed as though it has been her burning...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The antisemitic turn of the “Alternative for Germany” partyThe AfD wants to use Israel to exploit the false notion that whoever is pro-Israel could not be antisemitic, and to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Terror from the far right in the Weimar RepublicThe approval and performance of politically-motivated violence has been a core element of fascist or antisemitic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?PEGIDA turns 4 – will AfD be among the well-wishers?Some have spoken out against a rapprochement between the AfD and PEGIDA. The AfD leader in Saxony insists: 'The AfD...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Scenes of ‘civil war’? Radical right narratives on ChemnitzThe Chemnitz case shows a Saxon city where the radical right has tried to establish itself for years, with some very...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The truth lies in Chemnitz?We might see parallels between Rostock ’92 and Chemnitz ’18, but the impact and the political context today are...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Feminism gone bad? Women’s organisations and the hard right in GermanyWhat kind of campaigning could outweigh the increasing power of implicit and explicit alliances by far-right actors...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The united German extreme rightChemnitz shows how collaboration across three rightwing sectors is a recipe for disaster, as the extreme right...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The lessons of the World Cup for our victim cultureIf these rebels hadn’t somehow found the courage to strike out in bold, new and, frankly, dangerous directions, we...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Endgames in Germany: bringing down MerkelThe CSU's position is weak – but unfortunately, not weak enough to not bring down Angela Merkel.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Protesters hear echoes of the past in Germany’s new police lawsThe hollowing out of this constitutional firewall represents a weakening of a legal structure born directly out of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Germany neither can nor should pay more to save the eurozone“I wanted a Germany that was hegemonic and efficient, not authoritarian and caught up in a European Ponzi scheme....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Germany's falling crime rates show the left should drop identity politicsAfD is a far-right party which has drawn a lot of strength over the past five years by banging on about how unsafe...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?German social democrats have alienated their base and fractured EuropeUnable to generate a domestic consensus and powerless to counter the priorities dictated by the euro, social...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDarkest Hour: another film about 1940Is this film any better at history than Dunkirk? Does it matter when you have such a multi-faceted central character...
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Published in: HomeGassing and selective applications of a ‘Red Line’: lest we forgetThe gassing of people is considered exceptionally inhumane, officially a categorical “red line” dividing good from...
