Of the Richmond Center, i also served as the dean of Columbia Law School from 20042014 which i mention for a very particular reason. I was the dean when professor anu bradford joined our faculty, and its one of my very proud moments is when we persuaded her to do that. So im honored to kick off what i know is going to be a fascinating discussion about the influence of europe on the global marketplace. Last year the wall street journal called the decline of europe as a force in World Affairs the most consequential shift of the last hundred years. And there is some truth in that. Since world war ii the military influence of europe has certainly declined, and its also true that europes Economic Growth has not compared favorably with that of the United States or, for example, with china or india. And, of course, efforts to maintain an Economic Union within europe have been more complicated lately with brexit, as we all know. But still i think professor bradford sees things a little bit dif
Are. True also theres a lot of innovation in the east i really dont want to let that stand the germans are more stupid than the western germans i dont think thats true of on proportions well theres the demography is different a lot of a lot of people who saw a chance of left they left thats what you said and and so there is there is this obviously and the ninetys were really hard and there were lots of nazis that werent addressed in the in the g. D. R. And so there are all these issues and theyre cumulating to what were now seeing let me just ask you this because were almost out of time and id like to at least briefly hear from all of you should the far right in fact make significant gains in the elections on sunday what do governments at both regional and federal level need to be doing to stop this trend and im going to have to us for the briefest of possible answers well they are a Democratic Party they need to be mystified by being seen what they are and that might see them in a Reg
Than together. Why that is our topic this week here on quadriga and here are our guests. Badly hurt no works for spiegel online she says German Society is just beginning to deal with the disappointment and tromba eastern germans experienced after the fall of the wall. Many people felt their experiences had been ignored the aft feeds off these feelings of neglect. And its a pleasure to welcome my colleague michelle and the kids now shes chief Political Editor here at gw she says most of all these elections are about what options will be on the table when uncle the maccolls final coalition government. Leaves office. And were very pleased to have alan closer back on the show he is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper. He says a generation after the end of nazism west germany experienced an anti authoritarian you three full. A generation after the end of communism east germanys experiencing an authoritarian rippled led by old man. So let me ask all of you and ill start with yo
Than together. Why that is our topic this week here on quadriga and here are our guests. Badly hurt no works for spiegel online she says German Society is just beginning to deal with the disappointment and tromba eastern germans experienced after the fall of the wall. Many people felt their experiences had been ignored the aft feeds off these feelings of neglect. And its a pleasure to welcome my colleague michelle and the kids now shes chief Political Editor here at gw she says most of all these elections are about what options will be on the table when uncle the maccolls final coalition government. Leaves office. And were very pleased to have alan closer back on the show he is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper. He says a generation after the end of nazism west germany experienced an anti authoritarian you three full. A generation after the end of communism east germanys experiencing an authoritarian rippled led by old man. So let me ask all of you and ill start with yo
Of germany and be seen as like part of it and not the. Were sort of cast off fly over country but i just want to ask one thing about a point that is often asserted in connection with Political Attitudes and support for the f. T. Namely the idea that it reflects the communist area era socialization of order germans and even a kind of nostalgia for an easier time do you think thats true yeah definitely and i also think that germans werent good democrats in the fiftys they werent good democrats in the sixtys they had the economic wonder thats vicious one a and thats how that went on until the seventys and so thats how they became democrats of because the u. S. Forced it upon them and then they had a good good experience with demarc democracy so its stuck sort of you know to put it in a nutshell but and that didnt and that didnt happen in eastern germany obviously they got all this money they got all this restructuring of infrastructure of streets and so forth but they didnt have the exper