ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the intellectual circles of Germany's ‘New Right’, which have increasingly gained prominence. The controversial label refers to those intellectuals that combine a recognisable distance from the Old Right (i.e., National Socialism and traditional German nationalism) with an anti-liberal attitude directed against basic principles of liberal democracy. The chapter outlines the history of the most important intellectual circles and their key periodicals in order to successively capture their connecting guiding ideas and internal differences, thus providing a complex picture of contemporary New Right ideology. Empirically, the chapter focuses on the Institute for State Policy in Schnellroda. The analysis discusses both continuities and discontinuities. An important new development is the increasing reference to Christianity as a cultural force in the fight against ‘Islamization’. The contribution concludes with a discussion of the New Right's influence on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the latter's successful right-wing populist mobilisation since at least 2015.
