Melanie Amann, who served as deputy editor-in-chief at DER SPIEGEL since 2023, joins CES as John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow for the month of October. Amann is author of a seminal book of Germany's right-wing party AfD, entitled Angst für Deutschland: Die Wahrheit über die AfD: wo sie herkommt, wer sie führt, wohin sie steuert (Fear for Germany: The truth about the AfD: where it originates, who leads it, where it is headed).

CES is delighted to welcome 18 Visiting Scholars from 10 countries to its Visiting Scholars Program. Their research on Europe will bring a wealth of diverse perspectives and expertise to our community. 

The Guardian draws on Ziblatt’s Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (2017) to argue that conservative parties must act as stabilizers — not enablers — of the far right if democracy is to endure.