{"id":15008,"date":"2015-01-09T11:29:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=15008"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:16:05","slug":"berger-germany-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/01\/09\/berger-germany-on-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"Berger: Germany on the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/01\/berger-resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/01\/berger-resized-515x300.jpg\" alt=\"berger resized\" width=\"515\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15009 alignright\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/thomas-berger\/\">Thomas Berger,<\/a> associate professor of International Relations at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a> said that Germany stands on an economic and political brink after a right-wing protest this week.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks were published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\"><i>Pacific Standard<\/i><\/a> on Jan. 8. The article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/kickers\/the-rest-of-the-world\/breaking-new-xenophobic-movement-germany-97839\/\">&#8220;Breaking Down the New Xenophobic Movement in Germany,&#8221;<\/a> details a march in Dresden where 18,000 Germans marched in opposition to immigration and political asylum policies &#8211; a trend exacerbated by economic concerns.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Berger said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the financial front, the European economic crisis has been dragging on for nearly five years. \u201cGermany has done relatively well economically,\u201d says Thomas Berger, a professor of international relations at Boston University. \u201cBut to think that the Germans\u2019 economic machine is essentially this invincible economic juggernaut is a big mistake. And the Germans are well aware of the fragility of their prosperity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/kickers\/the-rest-of-the-world\/breaking-new-xenophobic-movement-germany-97839\/\">read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Berger joined the Department of International Relations in 2001. Previously, he taught for seven years at the Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science in Baltimore. He is the author of\u00a0<em>War, Guilt and World Politics After World War II<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0<em>Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan<\/em>\u00a0and is co-editor of\u00a0<em>Japan in International Politics: Beyond the Reactive State.<\/em>\u00a0His articles and essays have appeared in numerous edited volumes and journals, including\u00a0<em>International Security<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Review of International Studies<\/em>,\u00a0<em>German Politics<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>World Affairs Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Berger, professor at the Pardee School, said that Germany stands on an economic and political brink after a right-wing protest this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[8802,8580,564,8490,8582,8456,8581],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15071,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008\/revisions\/15071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}