Alternative for Germany

Despite the attempts to draw a clear line between conservatism and the far right, the eastern German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) celebrated the highly symbolic 30th anniversary of German Unity…

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Disunity within the Ranks? Party Expulsions in the European Radical Right: 2000–2020

August 28, 2020

Drawing on an original database of party expulsions of radical right parties in Europe across twenty countries from 2000-2020, Felix Wiebrecht, James F. Downes, Edward Chan and Anna Kam devise…

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The German AfD Makes Appeals To Russian-Germans

August 13, 2020

“We open the borders for migrants, but the doors to Germany are closed for ethnic Germans in crisis regions.” This critical statement on Germany’s recent immigration policy came from Waldemar Herdt, an…

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Personal Public (Death) Threat I: How the German Far Right tries to intimidate and silence journalists

February 12, 2020

The annual report of “Reporters Without Borders” shows that global press freedom is in decline, even though less journalists were killed in 2019. While Mexico and Syria remain the most…

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Have We Seen the Eternal Return of Fascism?

January 11, 2020

Unlike yesterday’s fascists, today’s radical right-wing leaders propagate neither territorial expansion nor anything close to the racial laws of the 1930s. Björn Höcke is public enemy number one in present-day…

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Germany’s East-West Divide Fuels the Far Right

December 3, 2019

What makes former East Germany a fertile ground for the rise of the far right? In September, citizens of the former East German states of Brandenburg and Saxony headed to…

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Funding the far right

November 15, 2019

How is public money disproportionately helping far right parties? The far right is generally more successful today than at any other point in recent history. The chart below shows the…

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Something new under the sun? The Alternative for Germany’s recent discussion of climate change and homeland protection

September 26, 2019

Since the May 2019 European Parliament election’s ‘Green wave’ in Germany, where the Green party increased its share of the vote by 9.8 to 20.5 per cent and came second…

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Merkel’s dilemma: Germany’s polarising ‘Turkish issue’ returns

August 6, 2019

To prevent such developments, mainstream parties need to shape political discourse, instead of being shaped by it. In August 2017, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alexander Gauland proposed to…

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What Germany’s “Green Wave” Means

May 29, 2019

Why these European elections were different: three key insights from Germany. After years of disinterest and declining turnouts, last week’s European elections were full of suspense and surprises. In Germany,…

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In Controversial Company: Conservatives and Far Right United on German Unity Day

Disunity within the Ranks? Party Expulsions in the European Radical Right: 2000–2020

The German AfD Makes Appeals To Russian-Germans

Personal Public (Death) Threat I: How the German Far Right tries to intimidate and silence journalists

Have We Seen the Eternal Return of Fascism?

Funding the far right

Something new under the sun? The Alternative for Germany’s recent discussion of climate change and homeland protection

Merkel’s dilemma: Germany’s polarising ‘Turkish issue’ returns

What Germany’s “Green Wave” Means

How can we prevent acts of violence such as the mass shooting in Plymouth?

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