🚨 CFP: Democratic Expeditions Workshop 2026 What are the risks and opportunities of #AI for democratic politics? 📍 Vienna | 🗓️ Nov 19–20 Submit by 31 March Convened by @zsofiabocskay.bsky.social and Simge Andi More info: democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/cfp...

🎙️ In our new podcast, produced in cooperation with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Luciano Da Ros and @manoelgehrke.bsky.social examine how courts can confront authoritarian behavior by elected leaders and why judicial action sometimes succeeds. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/48k3vrkm

Are we accurately interpreting election results? In our new paper, forthcoming in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Tim Vlandas and I discuss the risks associated with drawing inferences about national level outcomes based on individual-level analyses- i.e. the 'atomistic fallacy'.

📚 Here comes the list of five book recommendations by our editor @konstantinkipp.bsky.social from 2025 and 2026, related to the rule of law. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ Read the list here: 👉 tinyurl.com/4sfkjnru

Today at 9pm CET! Join us for a discussion of the ties between democracy, authoritarianism and welfare, w/ Linda Cook, Dorit Geva, Luciana Souza de Leao, @josephwongut.bsky.social, Erdem Yoruk and @dnsltr.bsky.social, by @umich.edu's Center for Emerging Democracies. events.umich.edu/event/144144

Our Researcher David Karas spoke to Reuters about how batteries became a liability for Orban ⬇️ www.reuters.com/business/hun...

✍️ Donald Trump’s second term exposes how the structural logic of populism breaks down under its own expansion. What once relied on a clear moral divide now operates through thinning legitimacy and the staging of permanent confrontation, Ece Özbey argues. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4nw23536

@davidkaras.bsky.social spoke to @szde.bsky.social about the economy in 🇭🇺 ⬇️ www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/u...

Monday, 5pm CET: Deep dive into gov't propaganda, independent journalism & social media in Hungary before the elections. With Peter Kreko, Veronika Kovesdi, Balint Mikola and @boralexander.bsky.social. At @ceudeminst.bsky.social + YouTube. More info: events.ceu.edu/2026-03-02/c...

New article! Differences within global movements: insights from FFF climate protests in Western and Eastern Europe by Aron Buzogány, Dániel Mikecz & Piotr Kocyba. @buzogany.bsky.social @piotrkocyba.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2623726

What does a year of German rearmament get you? If you're China, almost decade of cash to change the world's electricity infrastructure. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-china-...

📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September. The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe. 🗓 Deadline: May 17 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Mark your calendar for the second event in our series! 🇭🇺🇭🇺 🗣️ Peter Kreko 🗣️ Veronika Kovesdi 🗣️ Balint Mikola 🗣️ @boralexander.bsky.social 🗓️ Mar 2, 5pm CET 📍 Budapest / YouTube Details: 👉 cutt.ly/1tnq3bkY Registration: 👉 shorturl.at/2rN2p

🎙️ In our new interview, Martti Koskenniemi challenges claims about the “death” of international law and suggests alternative readings of the current situation. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y6anuk3j

Last Call for Applications – CEU Summer University with Financial Aid! The CEU Summer University course application deadline for those who request financial aid or need a visa is March 1. Course list, eligibility criteria and application forms for 2026: summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses

The first seminar in our online series "Democracy, Autocracy, and the Welfare State in the 21st Century: A Global Approach" is on! @philiprathgeb.bsky.social is talking about how the radical right has changed welfare. Scholars, PhD, MA students, join us for the series: tinyurl.com/4ydd8d92

Four years into Russia’s war against Ukraine, we launch a new podcast, "EU Integration Dialogues: The Ukraine Edition", with Inna Melnykovska and Marta Beska. Episode 1 features @erik-jones.bsky.social and @vanghel.bsky.social on this year’s Munich Security Conference. tinyurl.com/4v4bvjrb

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“If Europe wants to make credible commitments to Ukraine, it must lower the political costs of saying yes,” our program director Laszlo Bruszt writes in a new piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...

The first event in the @ceudeminst.bsky.social series on the Hungarian elections featured Laszlo Bruszt, Global Forum's Director and Gergo Medve-Balint, a researcher in GF, alongside Eva Palocz and Jozsef Peter Martin. Watch: How to dismantle and oligarchic system? www.youtube.com/live/bD1wUjz...

✍️ In his op-ed, @nicholasrl.bsky.social analyzes the roots of the Labour Party’s current malaise and explores prospects for change to prevent a further ascent of the far right. 🇬🇧🇬🇧 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yhuu2hpf

Curious how autocratization reshaped welfare, how social policy boosts illiberal rulers? Our free online seminar series for PhD and MA students starts Feb 26. More info, registration: democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/gf-...

💡 New event video 🎙️Batuhan Eren (Scuola Normale Superiore), @caterinafr.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger (Uni Vienna) & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @gmfus.bsky.social explores how illiberal actors shape politics in Austria, Italy & France 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-42...

More women now are graduating from university than men, and ever more women are taking up leadership roles in many spaces. As the role of women in society, we’ve seen attempts to push women back into “traditional” roles, as I said in at a @munsecconf.bsky.social event.

Join us on Monday for the first event of a new discussion series on the 🇭🇺 elections, organized by @ceudeminst.bsky.social, featuring Laszlo Bruszt, Jozsef Peter Martin, Gergo Medve-Balint, Eva Palocz and Balint Mikola. Topic: how to dismantle an oligarchic system. events.ceu.edu/2026-02-16/c...

Volume 74, Issue 1 of @polstudies.bsky.social is now available. Here is the Editor's Introduction, outlining our editorial goals and reflecting on the year's successes and challenges. Read the full issue here: buff.ly/rUI1FTL @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @syysr.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social

One way to renew American democracy. My article for @us.theconversation.com building on the recent task force report of the Academy of Arts and Sciences on the benefits of shifting from winner-take-all elections to proportional representation (PR). theconversation.com/proportional...

2 important rule of law related opinions today with one by AG Capeta the most important as it more broadly concerns undue politicisation of EU’s rule of law toolbox with enforcement or lack thereof dependent on (disguised) reasons of political expediency democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/lau...

🎙️ In our new podcast, Olena Nikolayenko discusses what counts as “real” participation and to what extent gender matters in a revolution, and places women’s protest within a broader framework, including the Arab Spring and Belarus. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/465nta7s

Swim! Definitely swim! Looking forward to being back in Oxford this Tuesday. Please join us in conversation w/ @dimitarbechev.bsky.social & @Richard Youngs @St Antony's College or just come say hi.

Advance your research at the MethodsNET Summer School. Explore our Statistical & Computational track: - Causal Inference - Applied Social Network Analysis - Quantitative Text Analysis - Machine Learning & LLMs - Panel Data See More: methodsnet.org/course-list/ #MethodsNET #ResearchMethods

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