Ecological Industrial Policy - A strategic approach for Social Democracy in Germany
Benjamin Mikfeld: With the concept of ecological industrial policy Social Democracy in Germany has put forward a way of reconciling economy and ecology, which combines the economic and social interests of an industrialised...[more]
Germany’s withdrawal from nuclear energy: Reasons and strategies behind a new energy policy
Reinhart W. Wettmann: In June 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany will withdraw from nuclear energy by 2021/22. Germany’s neighbours are concerned about the...[more]
Ecological Industrial Policy for Ecological Structural Change
Dr Philipp Schepelmann: This article examines the possibilities for sustainable structural change in the German economy as well as in other industrialised nations. It lays out a series of policy proposals for a state-driven,...[more]
The New Language of Social Democracy
Elisabeth Wehling, George Lakoff: Political language and reasoning are inseparable. No tie between parties and voters is more intimate and holds more potential for political empowerment through generating majorities in a...[more]
The Politics of Change in Palestine - State Building and Non-Violent Resistance
Michael Bröning: As change sweeps through the Arab world, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to be defined by stagnation. However, contrary to public perception, new political trends have also emerged from within the...[more]
Decent Capitalism - A Blueprint for Reforming our Economies
Sebastian Dullien, Hansjörg Herr, Christian Kellermann: The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed into...[more]
A fundamental programme for the PES: A German perspective on what is still under construction, common ground and key objectives
Björn Hacker, Gero Maass: Only together will social democratic parties in Europe be able to make good their claim to shape Europeanisation and globalisation in their own image. This is why SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel, at the last...[more]