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SPD Executive Board Adopts Strategy Paper for Election Campaign
The SPD's recently published strategy paper, which sets out how the party intends to combat the economic downturn, sets the tone for its campaign in the upcoming federal election. In an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio, TUD political scientist Janek Treiber explained that the SPD's poor performance in the last state elections in East Germany was due to broken promises. He also points to a lack of clarity about what the government stands for.
To the article on Deutschlandfunk...
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10 Years of Pegida: How the ‘Starting Shot’ of AfD & Co. Reverberates
In an article in the Thüringische Landeszeitung about the last rally of the Pegida movement, Prof. Hans Vorländer, head of the MIDEM research centre, reflects on his 2015 study on the demographics of Pegida participants and the influence the movement has had over the last 10 years. Dr Vorländer believes that although the movement is finished, its politics live on through the growth and cementing of right-wing populism and extremism that it has achieved.
Read the article in the Thüringische Landeszeitung...
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Olympic Bid: How Sport Contributes to the Image of Politics
TUD communication scientist Prof. Lutz Hagen spoke to Deutschlandfunk radio about Germany's plans to bid for the Olympic Games. In the context of the impact that hosting the Games can have on politics, public opinion and election results, he emphasises the connection between sport and national myths and identity.
To the article on Deutschlandfunk...
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Why Strategies Against the AfD Are Not Working
Manès Weisskircher, political scientist and head of the BMBF junior research group REXKLIMA at TUD, writes in Handelsblatt about why previous strategies against the AfD have not worked. He draws attention to how the party has been able to profit from every crisis and how neither marginalisation nor inclusion have managed to stop it. Instead, he argues that the most hopeful recipe in the fight against the right wing is to reduce political and economic uncertainty.
To the article at Handelsblatt...
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The Unconscious of Language. Free Indirect Speech and the Rhetoric of "Populism"
Florian Scherübl, lecturer at the Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Cultures at TUD, writes in the online magazine "Geschichte der Gegenwart" about the TV debates in the current US presidential race and the attempts by Trump and other so-called populists to occupy a linguistic unconscious and the consequences of this for language.
To the article at Geschichte der Gegenwart...
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Why Gun Rights Are Sacred to Americans
In an interview for Deutschlandfunk's USA Special, Sabine Müller-Mall, holder of the Chair of Legal and Constitutional Theory with Interdisciplinary Concerns at the TUD, gives an insight into the history of American gun law and the interconnectedness of gun ownership and gun violence in the USA.
To the interview at Deutschlandfunk...
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Differentiation Instead of Hardened Fronts
In the Deutschlandfunk Kultur podcast ‘Sein und Streit’, Nikita Dhawan, Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at the TUD, spoke to Stephanie Rohde about post-colonialism and the legacy of the Enlightenment. Referring to the title of her book ‘Saving the Enlightenment from Europe’, she argues, in contrast to the decolonial school, not in favour of overcoming the Enlightenment, but in favour of saving it - from the Europeans.
To the podcast at DLF Kultur...
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Pager Explosions: What Does International Law Say?
Following the explosion of several hundred pagers in Lebanon, presumably targeted attacks by the Israeli secret service on Hezbollah, the question of legitimacy under international law arises. Professor Dominik Steiger, Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law at the TUD, discusses the issue on ZDF heute.
To the report on ZDF heute...
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