Recent history, the so-called Age of Extremes, has been marked by constant war, revolutionary upheavals, and sudden political shifts that have shattered existing structures and abruptly called prior assumptions into question. Such moments of rupture […]
On Wednesday, 14 March, Heiko Maas took over from his predecessor Sigmar Gabriel as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs. Both Maas and Gabriel warned against the desire to seek isolation at a time of international […]
Germany’s two biggest political parties — the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), together with the Bavarian sister part the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) — agreed on a 177-page paper […]
With three state elections and the Bundestag vote in the fall, 2017 is a decisive year in German politics. With Chancellor Angela Merkel up for a fourth term and the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) […]
A few years ago he wanted to be chancellor and lost to Angela Merkel. Now Germany’s major parties agree: Frank-Walter Steinmeier should be the next federal president of Germany. He has been an important player […]
NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a panel discussion on Monday, November 7th at 6:30 p.m. on the 2016 presidential elections. Join them on the night before election […]
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