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Twilight of the Merkel Era

Author : Eric Langenbacher
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789202663
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Twilight of the Merkel Era written by Eric Langenbacher and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections always have consequences, but the 2017 Bundestag election in Germany proved particularly consequential. With political upheaval across the globe—notably in Britain and the USA—it was vital to European and global order that Germany remain stable. And it did through the re-election of Angela Merkel as chancellor, now in her fourth term. Just under the surface, however, instability is mounting—exemplified by the entry of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the largest opposition party, the decline of the Social Democrats, the ever-restive Bavarians, and the growing factionalism within the Christian Democratic Union as the Merkel era comes to an end. Paying special attention to the rise of the AfD, this volume delves into the campaign, leading political figures, the structure of the electorate, the state of the parties, the media environment, coalition negotiations, and policy impacts.

European Integration and Disintegration

Author : Nick Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000596478
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book European Integration and Disintegration written by Nick Cohen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European integration is an ambitious goal that attempts to reconcile grandiose visions for the future of Europe with complicated national attitudes toward unity. The added complexity of political crises, which have characterized the European project from its outset, makes the success of the European Union far from guaranteed. Today, European unity is once again at an existential crossroad, with internal and external challenges threatening its integration. This volume uniquely brings together the novel perspectives of Europe’s emergent generation of thinkers to analyze through interdisciplinary lenses these various disintegrative pressures. Students and scholars of Europe as well as those interested in the future of European cohesion will enjoy this volume, both for the interdisciplinary analysis it brings forth and for the window it provides into the thinking of Europe’s next generation of leaders.

Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy

Author : Eric Langenbacher
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805395467
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy written by Eric Langenbacher and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany has undergone more change in the past two years than it has experienced in decades. In the fall of 2021, the Social Democratic Party unexpectedly surged to first place in the Bundestag elections, going on to lead a coalition of SPD, Greens, and Free Democrats that promised to “dare more progress” domestically. Then just two months after the new government was installed, Russia invaded Ukraine. The contributions in this volume investigate the altered state of German politics and predict the trajectory of Europe’s leading power in the transformed geopolitical environment.

The 2021 German Federal Election

Author : Ross Campbell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031389301
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The 2021 German Federal Election written by Ross Campbell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Federal Election of 2021 was one of the most open and competitive in the post-war era. This book provides a systematic analysis of its domestic and international context, the shifting balance of the political parties, the election strategies and campaign themes, along with the challenges of government formation. An international array of scholars from Europe, North America and Australasia have contributed specially commissioned chapters on their principal areas of research. The discussion of individual topics is combined with sufficient background information so as to be accessible to readers who may not have detailed knowledge of German politics. In addition, by including links to multimedia election-related content we enhance the value of this volume and make it an indispensable reference tool.

The Oxford Handbook of German Politics

Author : Klaus Larres
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019254943X
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of German Politics written by Klaus Larres and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few countries have caused or experienced more calamities in the 20th century than Germany. The country emerged from the Cold War as a newly united and sovereign state, eventually becoming Europe's indispensable partner for all major domestic and foreign policy initiatives. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of some of the major issues of German domestic politics, economics, foreign policy, and culture by leading experts in their respective fields. This book serves primarily as a reference work on Germany for scholars and an interested public, but through this broader lens it also provides a magnifying glass of global developments which are challenging and transforming the modern state. The growing importance of Germany as a political actor and economic partner makes this endeavor all the more timely and pertinent from a German, European, and global perspective.

Europe Today

Author : Erik Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538110946
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Europe Today written by Erik Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its sixth edition, Europe Today presents unrivaled coverage of developments in major European countries and across the region. Thoroughly revised and updated—including new chapters on Turkey and the wider European neighborhood to address their growing influence—this is the only work that offers a sustained and unified set of both country case studies and thematic chapters on the European Union. Written by leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book shows a range of perspectives on the process of European integration, the evolution of economic performance, and the reaction to multiculturalism and immigration. Highlighting the impact of the global economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian war in Ukraine, and the struggle to assert Europe’s voice more widely, the contributors provide a pragmatic assessment of what Europeans have accomplished and what challenges they continue to face. Each chapter builds on a foundation of basic political information and explanation to develop distinctive and thought-provoking contributions to current debates. Informative and engaging, this comprehensive text leads readers toward a coherent and informed view of Europe today.

The German Polity

Author : Eric Langenbacher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538146614
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The German Polity written by Eric Langenbacher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Germany, one of the world’s leading economic and political powers. Tracing the country’s transformation since World War II, the author provides an in-depth guide to Germany’s current institutions, actors, and challenges.

Political Entrepreneurship in the Age of Dealignment

Author : Michael A. Hansen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031508904
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Political Entrepreneurship in the Age of Dealignment written by Michael A. Hansen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zusammenfassung: This book traces the rise of the far right AfD from its inception in 2013 to its re-election to the Bundestag in 2021, emphasizing the party's nature as a "populist issue entrepreneur" and covering the three major crises that have shaken European party politics - the Eurozone crisis, the so-called refugee crisis, and the COVID pandemic. Currently, books on the topic of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are largely limited to historical treatments and surface level analyses of the political party. This volume has the virtue of being both empirically rigorous as well as conceptually nuanced: it seeks to understand the party's political trajectory and attraction to supporters by analyzing its voters using advanced quantitative methodologies, as well as interpreting the party's communication strategies through mixed empirical methods. It embeds this account within a theoretically well-grounded argument. The argument emphasizes three important explanatory conditions - a favorable political opportunity structure, issue entrepreneurship, and the party's stages of political development. Michael A. Hansen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Turku, Finland. He previously held a Postdoctoral position at Lund University and was an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin Parkside. Jonathan Olsen is Professor and Chair, Department of Social Sciences and Historical Studies at Texas Woman's University, USA

Radical Right Populism in Germany

Author : Ralf Havertz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000368866
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Radical Right Populism in Germany written by Ralf Havertz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of radical right populism in Germany. It gives an overview of historical developments of the phenomenon and its current appearance. It examines three of the main far-right organizations in Germany: the radical right populist party AfD (Alternative for Germany), Pegida (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamification of the Occident), and the Identitarian Movement. The book investigates the positions of these groups as expressed in programmes, publications, and statements of party leaders and movement activists. It explores their history, ideologies, strategies, and their main activists and representatives, as well as the overlap between the groups. The ideological positions examined include populism, nativism, authoritarianism, volkish nationalism, ethnopluralism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, antifeminism, and Euroscepticism. The analysis shows that these ideological features are sometimes strategically interlinked for effect and used to justify specific political demands such as the stronger regulation of immigration and the exclusion of Muslims. This much-needed volume will be of particular interest to students and researchers of German politics, populism, social movements, party politics, and right-wing extremism.

Parties under Pressure

Author : Matthias Dilling
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226830241
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Parties under Pressure written by Matthias Dilling and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating investigation into why some parties evolve with their times while others fall behind. Around the world, established political parties face mounting pressures: insurgents on the Left and Right, altered media environments, new policy challenges, and the erosion of traditional strongholds, to name just a few. Yet parties have differed enormously in their ability to move with the times and update their offers to voters. This variation matters. While adaptation does not guarantee a party’s electoral success, the failure to modernize can spell its decline, even collapse, and create openings for radical and populist parties that may threaten the future of liberal democracy. Parties under Pressure examines why some parties adapt meaningfully to social, economic, and political transformations while others flounder, focusing especially on the fate of Western Europe’s Christian democratic parties. Matthias Dilling reveals the under-appreciated importance of party factions. While very high levels of factionalism are counter-productive and create paralysis, more moderate levels of factionalism help parties to adapt by giving visibility to fresh groups and ideas. Dilling draws on extensive archival research in Germany, Italy, and Austria, as well as evidence from France, Japan, and beyond. Taking a comparative-historical approach, Parties under Pressure sheds new light on parties’ varying records of adaptive reforms over more than seventy-five years.

Love? A worship pleasing to God

Author : La Civiltà Cattolica
Publisher : ucanews
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love? A worship pleasing to God written by La Civiltà Cattolica and published by ucanews. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 12 articles from the December 2021 edition of La Civiltà Cattolica, the highly respected and oldest Catholic journal published from Rome. When one thinks of evangelization and missionary life, often one of the first people to spring to mind is St Paul. In our December issue one of our regular contributors Prof. Marc Rastoin from the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome looks at the life of St Paul, the apostle par excellence. Continuing his series on the Virtues, Giovanni Cucci looks at Fortitude: A demanding virtue, revealing it is an indispensable virtue for living together. When it is lacking, evils of all kinds flourish, because those who could prevent them fail to take a stand! Andrea Vicini, one of our regular U.S. contributors and another educator, is a moral theologian and bioethicist at Boston College. In Pope Francis, Vaccines and Global Health he reflects on the importance of commitment to health care and identified three significant areas that comprise one solution: traditional health care practice; public health; and global health. Pope Francis’ new motu proprio Traditionis Custodes (“Guardians of Tradition”), addresses necessary changes to the Roman Missal in Unity and Concord in the Use of the Roman Missal: An analysis of ‘Traditionis Custodes’. Francis himself is our guide, explaining in this letter the reasons that led him to pronounce on the use of this liturgical book that for more than thirty years has been in search of peace. Following on from Spiritual Parents, published in the November issue, we have another piece from Miguel Angel Fiorito Spiritual Discernment. Fiorito explains the search for God at every moment is the hinge on which Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s whole doctrine of spiritual discernment turns.

Final Verdict

Author : Tobias Buck
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306832321
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Final Verdict written by Tobias Buck and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism. Bruno Dey's trial formed part of an extraordinary series of Holocaust cases brought by German prosecutors in recent years in a belated attempt to deliver justice to the victims and reverse decades of judicial neglect. It also surfaced at a pivotal moment for Germany and its thinking about the Holocaust. The Nazi genocide continues to occupy a crucial space in German public life, but many of the country's long-held certainties and convictions around the Holocaust are starting to fray. This reflects in part the passage of time, and the fact that the last surviving witnesses—victims and perpetrators alike—are rapidly fading away. But it’s also the result of profound changes in German politics and society. The far-right has made electoral gains and is openly challenging the country’s historic commitment to Holocaust remembrance. At the same time, there is a small but vociferous group of intellectuals on the left who question Germany’s memory culture from a different angle, asking what political lessons the country should draw from the Holocaust today. What does it mean for the country’s new Muslim citizens from Syria and Afghanistan, many of whom arrived with their own traumas, to be expected to assume the nation’s guilt? Final Verdict investigates questions that touch on German history, politics, and memory culture, and on the author’s own family history. Buck revisits the silence that surrounds his own family’s experiences and conduct during the Nazi period. In the face of rising anti-Semitism in Germany, the United States, and globally, Final Verdict examines the case for Holocaust justice in the twenty-first century—and the lessons that Germany's struggle with its Nazi past holds for the world today.

East German Distinctiveness in a Unified Germany

Author : Jonathan Grix
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567536068
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book East German Distinctiveness in a Unified Germany written by Jonathan Grix and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature of the dramatic growth in a distinct sense of East German identity in the years since the events that led to formal unification in 1990. While it is problematic to see 'East Germanness' as a singular and homogenous identity, it can be perceived as a distinctive phenomenon and a level of identification that exists alongside local, regional and national identities. The essays in this volume hope to challenge the commonly held misconception that East German regional identity is a problem that needs to be overcome in the process of unification. Through analyses of the social, political and cultural behaviour of East Germans and their perception of their own place in German society, this volume makes a complex and nuanced contribution to discussions on German national identity and the unification process.

The Age of the Strongman

Author : Gideon Rachman
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635422817
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book The Age of the Strongman written by Gideon Rachman and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the world. The first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to its key actors, from the award-winning journalist and author of Easternization. This is the most urgent political story of our time: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh, and Washington. These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent, or the interests of foreigners. At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against globalist elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiments of their nations. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality. What’s more, these leaders are not just operating in authoritarian political systems but have begun to emerge in the heartlands of liberal democracy. Gideon Rachman has been in the same room with most of these strongmen and reported from their countries over a long journalistic career. While others have tried to understand their rise individually, Rachman pays full attention to the widespread phenomenon and uncovers the complex and often surprising interaction among these leaders. In the process, he identifies the common themes in our local nightmares, finding global coherence in the chaos and offering a bold new paradigm for navigating our world.

Visual Politics

Author : Dennis Steffan
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3748925417
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Visual Politics written by Dennis Steffan and published by Nomos Verlag. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilder sind in der Politik allgegenwärtig. Sie beeinflussen, wie wir Themen und Ereignisse verstehen, PolitikerInnen beurteilen und Wahlentscheidungen treffen. Dennoch ist wenig über den strategischen Einsatz von Bildern in Wahlkämpfen bekannt. Dieser Band untersucht die visuellen Kommunikationsstrategien von Parteien und KandidatInnen aus einer Langzeit- und Vergleichsperspektive. Er analysiert Wahlplakate und Social-Media-Profile und stellt die Relevanz von Bildern in westlichen Demokratien dar. Visual Politics richtet sich an StudentInnen, DoktorandInnen und WissenschaftlerInnen sowie an alle, die sich für die Rolle von Bildern im Wahlkampf interessieren, wie KampagnenmanagerInnen, Parteien, KandidatInnen und JournalistInnen.

America in Retreat

Author : Bret Stephens
Publisher : Sentinel
ISBN 13 : 1595231218
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book America in Retreat written by Bret Stephens and published by Sentinel. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Americans are weary of acting as the world's policeman, especially in the face of our unending economic troubles at home. President Obama stands for cutting defense budgets, leaving Afghanistan, abandoning Iraq, appeasing Russia, and offering premature declarations of victory over al Qaeda. Meanwhile, some Republicans now also argue for a far smaller and less expensive American footprint abroad. Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens rejects this view. As he sees it, retreating from our global responsibilities will ultimately exact a devastating price to our security and prosperity. In the 1930s, it was the weakness and vacillation of the democracies that led to war and genocide. Today the regimes in Tehran, Damascus, Beijing, and Moscow continue to test America's will. Americans have often been tempted to turn our backs on a world that fails to live up to our idealism and doesn't easily bend. But succumbing to that temptation always leads to tragedy. The mantle of global leadership is a responsibility we must shoulder for the sake of our freedom, our prosperity, and our safety"--

The German Genius

Author : Peter Watson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 085720324X
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book The German Genius written by Peter Watson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In the early decades of the 20th century, German artists, writers, philosophers, scientists, and engineers were leading their freshly-unified country to new and undreamed of heights, and by 1933, they had won more Nobel prizes than anyone else and more than the British and Americans combined. But this genius was cut down in its prime with the rise and subsequent fall of Adolf Hitler and his fascist Third Reich-a legacy of evil that has overshadowed the nation's contributions ever since. Yet how did the Germans achieve their pre-eminence beginning in the mid-18th century? In this fascinating cultural history, Peter Watson goes back through time to explore the origins of the German genius, how it flourished and shaped our lives, and, most importantly, to reveal how it continues to shape our world. As he convincingly demonstarates, while we may hold other European cultures in higher esteem, it was German thinking-from Bach to Nietzsche to Freud-that actually shaped modern America and Britain in ways that resonate today.