Tag: Afd
The Professor’s Party Comes of Age: What the AfD Can Teach Irish Populism
The European political arena is still ringing with Sunday’s not-so-surprising triumph for Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in two regional elections in Thuringia and Saxony that placed them comfortably ahead of Berlin’s ruling green-left coalition. Irish press coverage scarcely goes...
German Elections: Did the Centre Hold?
In Brendan Simms’ 2013 work Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, he argued that the geopolitical history of Europe since the fall of Constantinople could be boiled down to the question of mastery over Germany. The land of the Rhein, Oder,...
Junge Freiheit: How Germany Built a Populist Press
Founded by a coterie of nationalist students against a prevailing ethos of left-liberalism on campuses, Junge Freiheit (Young Freedom) has been an instrumental outlet for the German Right for over 30 years. Occupying an intersection between the Conservative, Populist and...