I’ve recently taken up writing longer posts on Medium and Substack, mainly to think through some issues that are not ready or not suitable for an academic paper and to provide easy to understand explainers mostly of current events in US and German politics and foreign policy. I will post in German or English. My …
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My new article “If You’re Not Scared, You Haven’t Been Paying Attention: Trump, the Radicalization of the GOP, and the Future of US Democracy after the Midterms 2022” (in German) has just been published in the Austrian Journal of Political Science. The article discusses the future of US democracy after the 2022 midterm elections. Donald …
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I am excited to report that I have been invited to join the editorial board of the forthcoming book series “Global Populisms,” edited by Amy Skonieczny (San Francisco State University) and Amentahru Wahlrab (University of Texas at Tyler). The series will be published by Brill. It approaches approaches populism from an interdisciplinary perspective. That includes …
Happy to say that my article “Forget Populism!” has been published in Global Discourse. In it I challenge the highly misleading argument, widespread among the media, policymakers and (some) academics, that populism as such is a danger to democracy, Europe, the West, the liberal international order, or all of the above. Even a superficial reading …
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