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... and prosecution of Jalloh’s case reveal patterns institutional racism that many Germans are unwilling to confront. Germany owes a great deal of gratitude to those who have for years exposed the injustices faced by the country’s most marginalized residents. The policing statistics might not be as startling...

...Diàna Markosian Photographer Diàna Markosian worked with Milad Ahkabyar , a high school student in Düsseldorf, Germany, to document his first year in Europe. Milad and his family fled violence in Afghanistan and are still waiting to hear if they can legally stay in their new home...

..., a common Western policy toward and with Russia must be pursued. Finally, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe [OSCE], successor to the CSCE, must be invigorated with a special focus on peace and security. Not until 1973 did both Germanys, the communist East and the free West...

...Martin Walker Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 Martin Walker is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and chief international correspondent for United Press International. The Winter of Germany’s Discontent Martin Walker An old saying...

...Lam Thuy Vo Afghanistan is an increasingly dangerous war zone, but, according to journalist Lam Thuy Vo, Germany hasn't exactly laid out the welcome mat for Afghan refugees. While Germany approved 96 percent of asylum applications for Syrians in 2015, Afghan asylum-seekers have less than a 50-50...

... Germany but also, arguably, of Europe itself. Germany’s muscular economy stands second to none on the continent, and it is to Berlin, not Brussels or Paris, that U.S. presidents and other world leaders look when crises strike between the Atlantic and the Urals. Far beyond Potsdamer Platz, Berlin’s manic...

...Deborah Steinborn “ a multicultural society also brings us opportunities .” Germany’s top political figures have been unable or unwilling to convey that message. When Sarrazin’s book rekindled mainstream anti-immigrant sentiment last year, Chancellor Angela Merkel fanned the flames...

.... These mighty Hanseatic trading cities epitomized the fast-forward expansion of the German Em­ pire from its formation after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) until the catastrophes that flowed from Sarajevo. And nobody did more to propel Germany’s rise than Prince Otto von Bismarck, whose deeds should...

... with taking the test. In Germany, the language requirement is deeply unpopular among Turks, who account for the nation’s largest ethnic minority. Indeed, many see the law as a spurious effort to hinder further Turkish immigration. Even in Turkey, when the rule was passed, then-Foreign Minister Abdullah...

... Hobbles Yesterday’s Rebels P au l Hockenos In the early 1970s, with the radical West much in Germany’s new government that German student movement subdued and resembled the student rebels’ original pro­ splintered, Rudi Dutschke, its icon and ject. In fact, so broad is the consensus...

... the Palace of the Republic, a surviving relic of East Germany along with the occasional Trabant car and the Ampelmänchen, the little men on traffic lights that tell you when to stop and go. His display consisted of seven huge white letters, visible for miles away on Unter den Linden, reading “Zweifel...

... of the twentieth century— erupted on questions of the German past and on lessons to in part because of internal fissures within the be learned from it for a ll of us. great powers of the time, especially within the Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm, a frag­ Almost...

...Milan Hauner Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 RECONSIDERATIONS M ilan Hauner, a historian, is the author of six books and more than a hundred scholarly articles on the history o f Germany, India, Central Asia, Czechoslovakia, and Russia. He is affiliated...

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.... Eu­ Between the fall of Napoleon and the unifi­ rope, leaving much of its defense to the cation of Germany (in 1871), the autono­ Americans, concentrated instead on its own mous European state system was reasonably social stability and economic prowess. It stable. Thereafter, it grew...

... occurred when two conditions became manifest: deep financial interdependence (in the threat of contagion from a possible Greek government default) and deep dependence on German financial resources. In this context, Germany has used its dominant financial position to promote formal rules that enforce fiscal...

... percent of GDP in contrast to more than 20 percent in Germany and Ireland—and their competitiveness is weak. Wages simply grew too much, too fast for years before the crisis. This feeble southern export sector faces modest demand inside the euro area and an appreciating euro exchange rate, which makes...

... Germany even existed. None of that can be taken away from us. WPJ: So why not split off from Europe and create a real Portuguese Commonwealth? there is great respect for portugal because we have a very old history. it was portugal that discovered japan and china. Soares: We have...