Pegida and the Alternative FüR Deutschland: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
| Autor: | Karsten Grabow |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Government media_common.quotation_subject Refugee 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 0506 political science Nationalism Power (social and political) Economy State (polity) Political economy Capital (economics) European integration 050602 political science & public administration Sociology media_common |
| Zdroj: | European View. 15:173-181 |
| ISSN: | 1865-5831 1781-6858 |
| Popis: | Over the last two years Germany has experienced a significant growth of nationalist, anti-Islamic and xenophobic forces. While the movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, PEGIDA) has been mobilising protest on the ground in the Saxon capital, the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) has continually increased its number of seats in state parliaments, with a fundamental rejection of the refugee policy of the federal government. Since the election of a new leadership of the AfD in the summer of 2015, one can observe signs of rapprochement between these two organisations. In this paper I argue that the AfD and PEGIDA are two sides of the same coin. Further approximation and collaboration will depend on the outcome of lasting internal power struggles inside the AfD. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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