...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...

...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. Copyright...

... World Policy Institute Berlin—At the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, the President of Germany, Joachim Gauck asked the following key questions: “Has Germany already adequately recognized the new threats and the changing structure of the international order? “Has Germany shown...

... prosecution of Jalloh’s case reveal patterns institutional racism that many Germans are unwilling to confront. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 race criminal justice policing Germany A dead pig wearing a yellow T-shirt and dark trousers was burning in a custom-built shed. Outside...

...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...

.... Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 Germany Berlin gentrification The planners couldn’t have guessed that the torrent of cultural enterprises and visitors streaming into Berlin had only just begun. By 2002, the creative industries had breathed life into 18,000 businesses that supported...

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... World than from any other. 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...

... a busy commercial street in Aachen, Germany. Sahin didn’t want to start his own business, but he had to. It was his only chance to stay in the country. From a farm family in an isolated Anatolian mountain town in Turkey, Sahin arrived in Aachen as a teenager carrying nothing but an old suitcase, two...

... was “very important” to truly being a member of the nation. 90 80 70 60 PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION THE OF PERCENTAGE 50 GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY NETHERLANDS SPAIN SWEDEN...

... 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...

.... It crowned 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...

...James Angelos James Angelos is a Berlin-based journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic . He writes often on migration issues and researched Turkish immigration to Germany under the sponsorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation...

...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 with the...

... 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...

... many of them struggle to rein in large public debts. In the long term, governments must address the persistent imbalance between countries with excessive savings, such as China and Germany, and those with excessive consumption like the U.S. This imbalance contributed to the 2008 global financial crisis...

... European Community. 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...

... 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 exports outside the...