A decade after surviving #ISIS #genocide, #Yazidis who once found protection in Germany are now being deported back to #Iraq - including to the same IDP camps they once fled. My new long-read for @uk.theconversation.com, based on fieldwork in Iraqi #Kurdistan.

✍️ Despite repression, censorship, legal manipulation, and disinformation, the regime in Bangladesh failed to contain a decentralized, student-led movement in July 2024 that ultimately forced its collapse, Muhammad Zahidul Islam Miaji writes. 🇧🇩🇧🇩 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5frfn3h8

📽️ Have you missed our concluding conference mapping the illiberal challenge to liberal democracy in Europe held at the Central European University @weareceu.bsky.social earlier this month? ☝️ Worry not!

🎙️ In our new podcast, our editors Adrian Matus and Anubha Anushree discuss the most important intellectual questions that might shape the year ahead. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4xskvy33

Korbel Prof @epsteinprof.bsky.social & @piroskadora.bsky.social find that European financial reform has spawned growing diversity in financial policies, with East Central Europe markets contributing significantly to EU fragmentation. What are the implications? Read more in @jcms-eu.bsky.social

📢 AUTHLIB webinar How do illiberals challenge democracy in Austria, Italy & France? 🗓️ Jan 26 |🕒 10:00 CET 🎙️Batuhan Eren (Scuola Normale Superiore), @caterinafr.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger (Uni Vienna) & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @gmfus.bsky.social 👉 t.ly/DdE4e

🎙️ In our new podcast, Jeremy DeWaal talks about "Heimat," which is often translated as “home” or “homeland”, but it also points to a deeper sense of belonging, memory and emotional attachment to specific places. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/23kpsbhr

🏞️ @buzogany.bsky.social & Mihai Varga: Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✍️ Through moral panic, religious symbolism, and populist framing, a marginal political actor launched a powerful cultural counteroffensive in Greece, revealing how influence in populist politics often exceeds electoral weight, Stavroula Koskina writes. 🇬🇷🇬🇷 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4rj456j3

🗣️ AUTHLIB has explored the discourse of illiberal actors and the role of emotions in political communication. 📄 Carsten Q. Schneider @cqschneider.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social discussed if and how political leaders’ public speech can act as an early warning signal of democratic decline.

Tomorrow is the day - please join us for what promises to be an engaging conversation with @lgamboa.bsky.social, Michael Coppedge, and Paola Bautista de Alemán. See you at 2pm in the Hesburgh Center!

🎙️ In this podcast, Omer Bartov analyzes Israel’s war in Gaza, launched after the October 7 terror attacks, and how Western countries responded to it. 🎧 Listen to it: 👉 tinyurl.com/ypns8vxj

Join us this Fri., Jan. 16, for a flash panel on Venezuela with @lgamboa.bsky.social, Michael Coppedge, and Paola Bautista de Alemán. Moderated by @aperezli.bsky.social at the Hesburgh Center. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4sy6Dv3

The final @authlibeu.bsky.social conference organized by amazing colleagues in Budapest. A project that meant a lot to me - it enabled me to study radical and extremist groups in CEE, while also further developing our team's research agenda on democratic innovations.

Je suis particulièrement heureux de la publication de cet entretien mené pour la revue Mondes arabes il y a déjà trois ans, mais qui sort enfin, avec Neil Ketchley, professeur de science politique à l'Université d'Oxford. shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes...

It was a great pleasure to speak at the “Mapping the Illiberal Challenge” closing conference of @authlibeu.bsky.social at the CEU. Presenting the key arguments and recommendations of my upcoming policy paper, “How to Better Protect and Support Civil Society in the EU?”, I argued for: THREAD 1/5

❗ Illiberal forces impact policies and institutions. AUTHLIB studied their influence across various policy areas. 🔥 Mieke Verloo (Radboud University) analyzed how illiberals influence knowledge production and research in service of their authoritarian agenda creating a mutually reinforcing cycle.

🔖 We kicked off the day with AUTHLIB's consortium head, Zsolt Enyedi @zsolt.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social introducing the research focus of the project & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @gmfus.bsky.social highlighting some of the main achivements of the past 3.5 years.

🎙️ In our new podcast, Alla Myzelev discusses the stiliagi, a youth subculture in the late Stalinist and early post-Stalinist Soviet Union. The first part emphasizes how gender and sexuality complicate standard readings of youth subcultures as purely liberatory. 🎧 Listen now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3zv8k8p7

⚖️ Our second discussion explored liberal norms underpinning democracy, their defense, and the difficulties in re-establishing the rule of law. 💭 @profmarlenewind.bsky.social (Uni Copenhagen) discussed if we see a renaissance of political constitutionalism and drew attention to attacks on courts.

💥Our panel on parties and illiberalism did not only showcase the variety of illiberalism in Europe but also the variety of methods used by the AUTHLIB team. 📊 @jrovny.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social showed the varieties of parties' illiberalism through the Chapel Hill Expert Survey.

La traduction du livre de Mohamed Naeem par Victor Salama vient de paraitre. J'ai eu le plaisir d'écrire une courte préface qui essaie d'en restituer quelques enjeux.

✍️ In her op-ed, Mariana Paterlini explains how COP30 exposed the geopolitical trap of green extractivism and why Latin America must reclaim sovereignty and rights to shape a truly democratic climate future. ♻️♻️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mtjcmza5

On #HumanRightsDay, we’re spotlighting the young people across the Global South who are demanding governance systems that deliver dignity, equity, justice, and real economic opportunity. Their message is clear: human rights must be at the center of reimagining democracy.

✍️ The #COP30 summit “exposed how populism has reshaped global climate governance, replacing cooperation with confrontation, facts with opinions, and urgency with delay,” Deborah Martinez writes in her op-ed. ♻️♻️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/348nw4k7

To strengthen democracy, collaborations must stretch beyond party lines. On Monday, Dec 1 from 12-1:15ET, we are cohosting a virtual event with the National Democratic Institute on big tent coalitions, featuring @jennifermccoy.bsky.social ! Register here:

🎙️ In the new episode of our podcast series produced in cooperation with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @nateschenkkan.bsky.social examines transnational repression: a practice where states pursue individuals and groups beyond their own borders. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mvbfhx4t

Pretty excited to share this. We worked on a monster for the past year, getting LLMs (AI, those ChatGPT kinds of things) to qualitatively code the levels of populism in political speeches with holistic grading. Enjoy. populism.byu.edu/large-langua...

🌍 AUTHLIB Special Issue Highlight In AUTHLIB's special issue, Melek Aylin Özoflu (Özyeğin University) & Giray Gerim (Istanbul University) examine how AKP uses civilizational identity to justify its illiberal turn in Türkiye. Read open access ⤵️

Reflexiones sobre la erosión democrática en EEUU y su impacto en América Latina

🎙️ In our new podcast, @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social examines the progress of undoing the consequences of eight years of illiberal rule in Poland, and the challenges that lie ahead. 🇵🇱🇵🇱🧑‍⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2ywn387b

🔖AUTHLIB Publication 📊 Using #ESS data, Radosław Markowski @uniwersytetswps.bsky.social & Michał Kotnarowski examine how illiberal & authoritarian attitudes shape legitimacy in Central & Eastern Europe. 👓 Read open access in our special issue: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a

✍️ Peru’s democracy is eroding not through aspiring autocrats but through exhaustion. Entrenched informality hollows out authority and turns governance into a marketplace of deals rather than a system of rules, @eljorobado.bsky.social argues in his op-ed. 🇵🇪🇵🇪 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3hdcnjjb

IN NEW ISSUE: Authoritarian, But Not Nativist - @aborges75.bsky.social & @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social examine how far-right parties in Latin America compare to their Western European counterpart: buff.ly/4fK7Fwk (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

How do illiberal politics shape Europe? Our Politics & Governance special issue, edited by @zsolt.bsky.social @petraguasti.bsky.social @schaferd.bsky.social & Bálint Mikola, explores illiberalism's impact across Europe. Read open access⤵️ www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Tomorrow in Salamanca!

🎙️ In our new podcast, @fholt.bsky.social discusses the evolution of the Democratic Socialists of America and to what extent it is bound to large cities or can address a broader electorate. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3tsk94hn

Sobre la ultraderecha y la elección de la próxima semana en #Chile www.ciperchile.cl/2025/11/10/e...

People think the closest example to what is happening in the US is Hungary. I think is Guatemala (2017-2023) where the Corrupt Pact co-opted state institutions and undermined state capacity to enhance impunity and corruption

Why is it so hard to build a movement to defend democracy? In a new talk for @scholars.org, @jennifermccoy.bsky.social suggests some comparative answers. She then identifies problems specific to the U.S., and suggests some solutions. Watch here🔽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKZw...

✍️ Southeast Asia shows how democracy’s openness can be weaponized. Flexible illiberalism, the art of using democratic institutions to pursue illiberal ends, reveals how democracy endures not by collapsing, but by changing hands, Aqida Salma argues in her op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4xv4vyte

With @marianotorcal.bsky.social and Carolina Segovia on polarization, democracy and the far right in Latin America. Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZl...

New blog post on whether you need a #ChatGPT or other #AI or #LLM paid subscription, and if you do, how to get it on the #cheap. levente.littvay.hu/ai-on-the-ch...

New interview! Didi Kuo discusses the functions of political parties, party-building, revitalizing local politics, Trumpism, and illiberalism. Check it out! www.illiberalism.org/didi-kuo-on-... @didikuo1.bsky.social @fsi.stanford.edu

Mark your calendar for this lecture and discussion! 🗣️ Artūrs Kučs, Judge, @echr.coe.int 🗣️ @grabowskamoroz.bsky.social 🗣️ Paolo Pinto de Albuquerque 🗣️ András Sajó 🗣️ Renáta Uitz 🗓️ Nov 7, 1pm CET 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 Details: 👉 cutt.ly/nr3eUK84 Registration: 👉 cutt.ly/hr3eIyW0

Join us for this film screening, followed by a discussion! 📽️👥 🗣️ Adrian Favell 🗣️ Pavel Bandakov 🗣️ @sarahganty.bsky.social 🗣️ @cobrien.bsky.social 🗓️ Nov 7, 4:30pm CET 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 Details: 👉 cutt.ly/6r3eHsOx Registration: 👉 cutt.ly/hr3eIyW0

Online discussion | Democracy Under Pressure: How Illiberal Politics Reshape Europe 🗓️ Oct 31 | 🕒 15:00 CET Illiberal politics transform European democracies. But how deeply? 🗣️ Petra Guasti, Marlene Laruelle, Bálint Mikola, Zsuzsanna Végh Register: www.authlib.eu/democracy-un...

I look forward to discussing how to correctly diagnose the success of fa-right parties during this @etui.bsky.social lunchtime session on November 14th. Join us in Brussels (registration and info below)