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Germany

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of Germany’s domestic politics and Berlin’s role in Europe and the world, past and present.

The War in Ukraine Will Be a Historic Turning Point

Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties

Will Germany Stay the Course?

Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War

Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing

Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa

Can Berlin Get Tough on Beijing?

The Merkel Consensus Will Live On

The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War

The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

Russia’s Gas Pipeline Doesn’t Need to Rupture Transatlantic Relations

The Singular Chancellor

Hitler: Downfall, 1939–1945

A Plan to Beat Back the Far Right

When the Far Right Penetrates Law Enforcement

Fear of Trump’s Populism Might Save American Alliances

Hope for the Future of American Leadership Dies Hard

We Are the People: The Rise of the AfD in Germany

America’s Exceptional Housing Crisis

The Pandemic Hurts Countries That Don’t Value Workers

Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II

To Protect and to Serve

The Secret to a Safe Reopening

Can Middle Powers Lead the World Out of the Pandemic?

Only Saving Lives Will Save Livelihoods

Reluctant Warriors: Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma

Germany: A Nation in Its Time—Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500–2000

Old Divisions Threaten Europe’s Economic Response to the Coronavirus

The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945

Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present

Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation

The Collapse of German Centrism

The Fall of the Berlin Wall Almost Ended in War

We Need to Talk About Germany

1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler

How to Save the Transatlantic Alliance

Information Warfare Is Here To Stay

A Cold War Case of Russian Collusion

The New German Question

Where Weimar Germany Went Wrong

What Merkel’s Successor Will Mean for German Politics

Angela Merkel’s Vision Problem

The Twilight of German Conservatism

Post-Truth Germany

Another Grand Coalition Takes Shape in Berlin

From Nazism to Never Again

Germany's Chance for a Reset

Why the AfD Could Be Good for German Democracy

The Shadow of Poland's Past

Handling the Alternative for Germany

The Future of Germany's Social Democrats

Merkel's Next Steps

The Burdens of Germany’s Next Chancellor

The Role of the Small Parties in Germany's Elections

The German Election and Donald Trump

Germany After the Hartz Reforms

Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

Berlin’s Balancing Act

Turkey and the EU’s Diplomatic Stalemate

Merkel's Next Challenge

Germany's Other Refugees

Keine Atombombe, Bitte

Germany Strengthens Its Cyber Defense

Why Does Germany Have Boring Politics?

How Germany Is Tackling Hate Speech

The Return of Germany's Liberals

Meeting Macron in the Middle

The Schulz Effect Faces Its First Test

Trump and Merkel Take Off

There Is No Alternative

Merkel's Last Stand

Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939

Holocaust Angst: The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory Since the 1970s

Looking to Germany

German Inefficiency

Europe in Russia's Digital Cross Hairs

How Germany Can Counter Russian Hacking

The Global Chancellor: Helmut Schmidt and the Reshaping of the International Order

A Europe of Merkel and Fillon?

Germany Can Protect the Liberal Order

How a German District Confronted Its Own Xenophobia

Pragmatism Without Purpose

What Europe Got Wrong About the NSA

Germany’s New Global Role

Germany and the Armenian Genocide

Export Empire: German Soft Power in Southeastern Europe, 1890–1945

The Strongwoman of Europe

Germany's Step to the Right

The Military Sharing Economy

The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945

The Merkel Republic: An Appraisal

The Bundeswehr Backs Away From the Brink

Das Reboot: How German Soccer Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World

The Merkel Magic

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