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Merkel's challenge: Governing Germany in an age of rising nationalism

  • Written by Elizabeth Heineman, Professor of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa
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For observers concerned about a resurgence of the far right, the AfD’s showing in Germany’s election raised alarm.

The anti-European Union, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim Alternative für Deutschland will join the Parliament, or Bundestag, as the country’s third-largest party, with nearly 13 percent of the vote. Only Angela...

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