Dossiers

Thematic collections grouping related essays into a single line of argument. Each dossier includes a short introduction, a recommended reading order, and all associated articles.

Dossier 01

Economic Pressure, Migration, and the Rise of the AfD

How globalisation, EU enlargement, housing shortages, and the refugee crisis together prepared the ground for the political shift to the right — and why social democracy failed to respond.

10 articles

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Dossier 02

Culture War, Class, and Moralization

Germany's culture war as a class conflict: how privileged milieus use moral positioning for social distinction — and what material inequality has to do with it.

3 articles

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Dossier 03

Germany in a Harder Geopolitical World

Strategic dependencies, conflict simulations, and the question of societal resilience: Germany has entered a harsher world unprepared.

6 articles

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