Crises tend to correlate with intense literary activity, but not necessarily with intellectual perspicacity. Our picks of 2025 have clearsightedness in abundance – as do all the articles Eurozine has had the privilege to publish in the past year. www.eurozine.com/our-picks-of...

The Dayton Agreement appeared as the triumph of the liberal post–Cold War order, but had been preceded by three years of political deadlock, with western policy driven primarily by media coverage of the atrocities in Bosnia. By Tihomir Loza via Transitions www.eurozine.com/the-war-that...

All human drama is encounter, and all human communication is translation. @sjgarnett.bsky.social @iwm.at

We live in a world where the borders between one language and another, between reality and non-reality, between the human and the non-human, are all being denied. Translation can be an antidote to this nihilism of borderlessness, writes @marcishore.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/encounters-i...

A]lthough Trump’s re-election could by no means be ruled out when the Ukraine war began, Western governments failed to grasp after Russia’s invasion that this conflict ... had to be concluded within Joe Biden’s term of office.' Disqualifies an otherwise good argument k-larevue.com/en/from-here...

A combination of geopolitics and economic pressure is weakening the political will behind the European Green Deal, the EPP leading the deregulatory offensive. Forests risk becoming collateral victims of a political U-turn. Kelsey Perlman via @revueprojet.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/europes-fore...

🔴 Journalist Fatih Altaylı given jail term, kept in prison ➡️ The court has sentenced Altaylı to 4 years and 2 months in prison and ruled that he should remain in custody on the grounds of “risk of flight” ✍️ Eylem Sonbahar www.expressioninterrupted.com/journalist-f...

The sharp drop in support for Ukraine in Italy has less to do with the traditionally Russia-friendly policy of the Italian right, and more with the anti-US sentiment rooted in the culture of the Italian left. By @tilmanalioscia.bsky.social via @neweasterneurope.eu www.eurozine.com/italy-and-ru...

The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next. My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives. www.authoritarian-stack.info

A stunning conclusion to a stunning book @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-p...

'Obwohl beim Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs schon eine erneute Wahl von Trump keineswegs ausgeschlossen werden konnte, haben die westlichen Regierungen nicht begriffen, dass dieser Konflikt ... unbedingt innerhalb der Regierungszeit von Joe Biden hätte beendet werden müssen.' 🧐

This is the real threat to BBC impartiality. A weekend read by me setting the shambles of the last fortnight in proper context www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...

While civilizational rhetoric in the West reflects a sense of threat, globally it is recognition-seeking. Common to all civilizationalisms, however, is a blurring of the distinction between authoritarianism and democracy. By Hans Kundnani and Srirupa Roy www.eurozine.com/the-clash-of...

‘By going out of its way to appease its critics on the right – by, for example, providing disproportionate coverage of Reform and amplifying right-wing talking points from social media – the BBC has only fuelled the forces that are set on undermining it.’ Des Freedman www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

But Prescott’s memo wasn’t an internal BBC document — it was unsolicited. And its “neutral” proof relies on partisan, Trump-aligned sources. Full analysis in Part Two: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p... 7/12

As propagandists of a patriarchal order, tradwives perpetrate harm. But harm is being enacted on tradwives too. So why do some feminists see tradwifery as self-empowerment? By Katie Buckley via Dublin Review of Books www.eurozine.com/honey-im-home/

Why the only complaints the BBC fears are those from the right: @lewisgoodall.com on the Prescott Report. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The 33rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals will take place this weekend in the Slovenian–Italian cities of Nova Gorica/Gorizia, a ‘borderless’ European Capital of Culture in 2025. The conference is co-organized with Razpotja magazine. www.eurozine.com/translating-...

Eurozine is deeply saddened by the death of Judith Vidal-Hall, editor of @indexoncensorship.org from 1993–2006 and a longstanding member of Eurozine’s advisory board. We recall the deep and lasting mark she made on the network. www.eurozine.com/judith-vidal...

Strong argument by the legal and political historian Aziz Rana for the analytical fruitfulness of the term 'settler colonialism' across a very diverse range of contexts:

Eurozine is very saddened to hear of the death of Judith Vidal-Hall (1938–2025), a former editor of @indexoncensorship.org, former Eurozine editorial board member, and member of Eurozine’s advisory board since 2005. She will be deeply missed by the network and wider community.

Israel's war on Gaza inaugurates a global era in which consensus itself has lost legitimacy, writes Seyla Benhabib via Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social @voelkerrechtsblog.org www.eurozine.com/gaza-and-the...

Interesting interview with Manfred Sapper editor Osteuropa @dgoberlin.bsky.social and Katharina Raabe editor @suhrkamp.de: - Access to authors in RU, BY and much of Caucasus near impossible, forcing reliance on diaspora - Public interest in Ukraine much diminished podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/o...

Jewish people are not only divided over Israel, they also feel alienated from societies in which antisemitism is regularly disguised as anti-Zionism, writes Eva Illouz on the aftermath of October 7th. www.eurozine.com/after-octobe...

Mouin Rabbani as usual cutting through the noise (read to end): www.newarab.com/opinion/good...

A century after publication, ‘Mein Kampf’ is instructive not just about the mass appeal of delusional xenophobia, but also about the circumstances under which morality can become a form of terror. By Arnon Grunberg @arnonyy.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-elastici...

Abandoning the myths of statehood through negotiated settlement, younger Palestinians are defining the goals of liberation and return anew, writes Hazem Jamjoum via Vikerkaar 9/2025 (upcoming in Estonian). www.eurozine.com/left-alone-t...

Sven Lütticken and Ana Teixeira Pinto on political speech and the paradoxes of critique after Trump and Gaza; why the far right fills the gap left by restorationist liberalism; and how fascization depends on white middle-class solidarity www.eurozine.com/surviving-fa...

Founded to eradicate the legacies of colonialism, the African Union was supposed to have been a means to assert sovereignty. But it has proven ineffective in countering a combination of western and domestic power, writes Adéwálé Májà-Pearce www.eurozine.com/did-coloniza...

Education has become a battleground in the Kremlin’s campaign to militarize the Russian public consciousness. Youth organizations, book bans, changes to school curricula – all amount to a ‘special anthropological operation’, writes Andrei Kolesnikov @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/intellectual...

Israel has authorized a full military takeover of Gaza exactly 20 years after declaring it had ‘left’ the Strip. Disengagement failed because it was never designed to succeed – least of all on Palestinian terms. By @ytouval.bsky.social via @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/setting-the-...

Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today in way the region is studied in the West. Ukraine scholar @uilleamblacker.bsky.social pleas for institutional reform: www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

France risks becoming ungovernable. Many blame the situation on Macron’s autocratic style. But the problem lies deeper, in the development of the parties and party elites. By Gilles Bataillon via @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/a-political-...

When Belarusian society rose up five years ago, the century-old hopes of the national liberation movement seemed close to realization. What remains of those hopes today? By Uladzimir Liankievič in collaboration with @dekoder.org www.eurozine.com/my-testament/

Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish students are directly affected, is telling, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...

'Die eigentliche Leistung des britischen Luftwaffenführungsstabes bestand darin, das Konzept des Air Policing aus dem Kontext der asymmetrischen Kriegführung gegen kolonisierte Volksgruppen auf den Staatenkrieg zwischen europäischen Industrienationen zu übertragen.'👇🏼 www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

A century on from partition, internal colonialism continues to characterize relations between England and Northern Ireland, writes @katyhayward.bsky.social via @iwm.at www.eurozine.com/eternal-twil...

The president who preached revolution: A portrait of Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s quixotic leftwing leader, by Iván Garzón Vallejo via @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/the-presiden...

While Lula has managed to stabilize the Brazilian economy and restore some key social programs, these gains remain fragile, writes @nararoberta.bsky.social via @publicseminar.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/lula-3-0-and...

Dieses Anliegen liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/wi...

Brosius-Gersdorf is a taste of things to come in the event of an SPD attempt to ban the AfD (not the same as saying a ban would not be constitutional or democratic).

Thirty years on from the Srebrenica massacre, how The Netherlands has failed to acknowledge the ‘moral truth’ of the victims. Also: perspectives on the fascism debate; and why society needs a conversation about dying www.eurozine.com/moral-truth/

The outbreak of the Lebanese civil war fifty years ago inaugurated an era of nation-state collapse in the Arab world. Hamit Bozarslan on the ‘Arab Apocalypse’, via Esprit @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-arab-apo...

To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship. New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...

‘The Syrian tragedy cannot be summed up simply as the murder of hundreds of thousands of human beings; it also involved the denial of any meaning to the extreme suffering of the Syrian people.’ Yassin al-Haj Saleh in interview with Esprit www.eurozine.com/the-art-of-d...

The Serbian student movement symbolizes a generational shift and national renewal. For the first time in years, people are seeing a future for themselves and their children. By Branka Ćurčić www.eurozine.com/serbias-pres...

Prospects of an end to Israel’s destruction of Gaza and its people are as distant as ever. But momentum for a ceasefire, and even statehood, would likely be stronger were Palestinian factions not themselves still divided, write Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh www.eurozine.com/the-gutting-...

@tenuredradical.bsky.social called it www.eurozine.com/broken-beyon...

Today, as Russia’s regressive war on Ukraine reopens old conflicts, the Helsinki Final Act and other East-West treaties stand as monuments to European modernity. By Durs Grünbein in collaboration with Debates on Europe www.eurozine.com/the-resilien...