Marcus Colla
Biography
Publications
Marcus Colla is Mark Kaplanoff Research Fellow in History at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the history of modern Germany and Eastern Europe.
The burden of friendship: Germany, Trump and NATO
Germany earns a special ire in the President’s complaints, but Berlin sees less challenge in dollars and more in trust.
A certain boredom? Taking stock of democracy in 2019
The anger directed against liberal democratic institutions today is so rarely attached to any specific objectives.
The Merkel legacy – a study in shades
Success and failure mark all careers in high office. Angela Merkel could often persuade, but not always inspire.
Germany: A tale of two conservatisms
Merkel is facing a slow moving political crisis caused by a schism between mainstream and far-right conservatism.
The ever-widening Atlantic
Battening hatches and waiting for the Trump storm to pass is hardly a pragmatic solution to concerns of a world in flux.
AfD and the politics of German identity
The far-right party Alternative für Deutschland is rattling the Bundestag by pushing identity to the centre of German politics.
Germany gets a government
The next four years may prove to be the most transformative period in German politics for some time.
The unending nightmare for Germany’s Social Democrats
The coming days and weeks will be a period of great uncertainty in Berlin and, by extension, Europe.
Favourites of 2017: Age of Anger
Modernisation has always produced angry victims.
