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The Collapse of German Centrism

The success of the far-right AfD continues to dominate political debates in Germany, but there is a way to suck the energy from its high-flying rhetoric.

Peter Kuras

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Politics & Society Dec 5, 2019 Snapshot

The Collapse of German Centrism

The success of the far-right AfD continues to dominate political debates in Germany, but there is a way to suck the energy from its high-flying rhetoric.

Peter Kuras

Security Nov 22, 2019 Snapshot

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Thirty years ago this month, the opening of the Berlin Wall ushered in the last great diplomatic struggle of the Cold War.

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How to Save the Transatlantic Alliance

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The New German Question

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Robert Kagan

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Germany Feb 28, 2019 Review Essay

Where Weimar Germany Went Wrong

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Germany Dec 13, 2018 Snapshot

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Merkel and Kramp-Karrenbauer at the CDU party congress in Hamburg, December 2018.

Europe Nov 2, 2018 Snapshot

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Much ink has been spilled on the collapse of European social democracy. Much less talked about, but just as brutal, has been the decline of German conservatism.

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Germany, like the United States, has entered a post-truth hall of mirrors.

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Germany Jan 22, 2018 Snapshot

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It is the EU, rather than any particular German political party, that emerges as the big winner of the emerging government in Berlin.

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Merkel now needs to think all the more carefully about her legacy, regardless of what kind of coalition government emerges in Berlin.

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