Alexander Görlach

F.D. Roosevelt Foundation In Defense of Democracy Affiliate Professor at the College of Harvard University, an affiliate of the Government Department at Harvard and a fellow of the Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Fellow of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, holding a PhD in linguistics and a PhD in comparative religion while being the publisher of the online-magazine Save Liberal Democracy and an op-ed contributor to the New York Times. @agoerlach.

Germany shifting to the right. Photo: Olaf Kosinsky / kosinsky.eu (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons. Elcano Blog

Germany shifting to the right

And now Germany: similarly to most other European countries, the Federal Republic will now also have a right-wing party decisively present in its national parliament. The 13% share of the vote achieved by Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in the 24 September elections could almost be called a landslide victory. [...]
2/11/2017
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Germans and their "angst". Photo: Voting in AfD's assembly (2014). Metropolico.org / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). Elcano Blog

Germans and their “angst”

Germany has a new Right.  It is strong, it is represented in nearly every state parliament, and, according to all predictions, it will move into the Bundestag in the coming year.  The Federal Republic has been turned on its head ever since Angela Merkel’s government, in agreement with Austria, [...]
5/10/2016
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