Posted on August 23, 2015. Tags: catalonia, Democracy, euro, European Union, eurozone crisis, Francois Mitterand, Germany, Helmut Kohl, Hitler, Kissinger, Legitimacy, Merkel, NATO, Nazis, Scotland, Soviet Union, Weimar
This article was originally published by The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in Carnegie Ethics Online on 17 August 2015. In Klaus Harpprecht’s 1995 biography of Thomas Mann, he highlights a statement which Mann wrote in 1947, which, as Harpprecht puts it, “one reads with a distinct shiver half a century later”: In […]
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Posted in Europe, Germany, Global Economy, World
Posted on May 2, 2015. Tags: Alex Salmond, British, Conservatives, David Cameron, DUP, Ed Milliband, Election, Independence Referendum, Labour, Legitimacy, Nick Clegg, Nicola Sturgeon, Politics, Scotland, Scottish independence, Tories, UK, UKIP, Unionism, United Kingdom, Vernon Bogdanor, Westminster
The Conservative party has this week been briefing about the possibility of a Labour government supported by the SNP leading to a constitutional crisis. However, this crisis may be largely of their own making. Polls currently suggest that the Conservatives will be the largest party in Westminster, both in terms of vote share and seats, […]
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