📚 Here are five book recommendations by our editor Alexandra Kardos from 2025, related to the history of ideas. Read the list here: 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8xxssb

🎙️ In the latest episode of our special podcast series co-produced with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Benjamin Gedan and Elias French discuss the threat to Latin American term limits. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/8yhsmpjd

🔚🎙️ As 2025 draws to a close, Alexandra Kardos, Gabriel Pereira, Kristóf Szombati, and Ece Özbey take stock of a turbulent democratic year through three keywords: imagination, frustration, and realignment. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/nwy6fjaf

🎙️ In our new podcast, Golnar Nikpour discusses how modern Iranian prisons illuminate broader questions about political modernity, state formation, and democratic aspiration. 🇮🇷🇮🇷 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mv7dhsrn

✍️ 5⃣0⃣ years after South America’s dictators formalized Operation Condor, new research and recent court rulings reveal both the scale of this transnational terror network and the extraordinary persistence required to expose it, Francesca Lessa writes. 🧑‍💻 Read her article now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2kyctfyt

🎙️ In this exclusive end-of-year conversation with our Co-Managing Editor Ece Özbey, Nobel Prize-winning political economist @dacemoglumit.bsky.social reflects on what 2025 revealed and failed to resolve about the state of democracy. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mfh3zv6u

🎙️ In the second part of his podcast, @robin-c.bsky.social analyzes whether contemporary Germany might be trending toward authoritarianism. 🇩🇪🇩🇪 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4dvawrn4

✍️ Although he had been considered a candidate for a while, the honor humbled a writer whose childhood hardly predicted his rise to global fame, Victoria Harms writes about Laszlo Krasznahorkai on the occasion of his Nobel Prize in Literature. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3ud6r8hr

✍️ 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

🎙️ In our new podcast, Raluca Radu explains how social platforms like TikTok, WhatsApp groups, and AI-driven chatbots reconfigure the trust towards information, and how social media and algorithms redefine the public sphere worldwide. 💡 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/muwmssve

🎙️ In our new podcast, Pedro Abramovay (@open-society.bsky.social) offers a wide-ranging analysis of the rise of illiberal forces in Latin America and the democratic vulnerabilities they exploit. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2att7rwb

✍️ Spain’s political struggles reveal how democratic erosion increasingly unfolds through boundary–pushing legal tactics rather than overt authoritarian ruptures, Fernando Casal Bértoa writes in his op-ed. 🇪🇸🇪🇸 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5a4h5sjh

✍️ 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

🎙️ 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

Hungarian foreign policy needs to be reimagined. Check out my new @revdem2020.bsky.social piece outlining the strategic framework for reorienting #Hungary’s #ForeignPolicy after a democratic transition, highlighting the key challenges, trade-offs, and opportunities. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/11/25/r...

🎙️ In our new podcast, @robin-c.bsky.social examines the threat of far-right on German politics and discusses the country’s broader protest culture. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mvhsdrk7

✍️ In the first op-ed of his new series, @danielhegedus.bsky.social outlines the strategic framework for a reorientation of the foreign policy of a future democratic Hungary, mapping the challenges, trade-offs, and opportunities. 🇭🇺🇭🇺 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/cbtcew39

Join us and @ceudeminst.bsky.social for this online book discussion! 👥📖 🗣️ Amelia Bonea 🗣️ Irina Nastasa-Matei 🗣️ Katja Doose 🗣️ Rachel Cowen 🗣️ Adrian Matus 🗓️ Dec 4, 7pm CET 🔴📽️ Online on YouTube Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/ms4hxcjd

✍️ Chile’s presidential runoff pits a Communist former labor minister against a hard-right former congressman, signaling both a sharp rightward turn and the eclipse of the old political elites, @dbrieba.bsky.social writes in his op-ed. 🇨🇱🇨🇱🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mtntusct

✍️🔖 It “demonstrates a point that historians and philosophers alike have stated for a long time: the expansion of primary education cannot be separated from the politics of law and order,” Adrian Matus writes in his review of Agustina Paglayan’s book. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4truzefh

Join us and @ceudeminst.bsky.social for this online book discussion! 👥📖 🗣️ Janaki Nair 🗣️ David Lelyveld 🗣️ Margrit Pernau 🗣️ Anubha Anushree 🗓️ Nov 26, 3:30pm CET / 8pm IST 🔴📽️ Online on YouTube Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdhzn3wm

🎙️ In our new interview, @lizhicks.bsky.social and @buzogany.bsky.social reflect on the shifting terrain of global climate activism since the peak in 2019 and discuss the strategic crossroads the movement now faces. 🌍♻️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2d4afzwn

🔙👥🧑‍⚖️ At the @ceudeminst.bsky.social’s Rule of Law Clinic, Artūrs Kučs, Judge of the @echr.coe.int, analyzed how courts shape the understanding and protection of the rule of law in Europe. 🧑‍💻 Read a summary by Karolina Godal: 👉 tinyurl.com/4mdxnsfj

✍️ Across the world, strongmen follow the same playbook to dismantle democracy. But their favorite tool could also become their greatest weakness if democracy’s defenders learn to flip the script, Filip Milacic writes in his op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yn3uczmx

🎙️ 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

🎙️ In our new podcast produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Maya Tudor argues that today’s decline in trust in democracy stems from misconceptions about its achievements. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2s965u3f

✍️ 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 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

🎙️ 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

✍️ In his op-ed, Neil H. Buchanan argues that newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will face relentless efforts from across the political spectrum to bring him down. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3a2t7eny

✍️ Argentina’s midterm elections tested not only the government’s ability to sustain its reform agenda but also citizens’ growing preference for results over ideology, Lara Goyburu writes in her op-ed. 🇦🇷🇦🇷🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mr3y84e2

✍️ 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

🎙️ In the new podcast of our series co-produced with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley discuss the ways in which AI could strain, or even crack, the foundations of democracies. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4t2z3p3c

✍️ The higher education reform announced by Georgia’s government is a decisive move to bring one of the country’s last relatively plural arenas entirely under political authority, Sandro Tabatadze argues in his op-ed. 🇬🇪🇬🇪🧑‍🏫 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/27urvr2s

Can moral emotions help address polarization, or do they make it worse? 🤔 🎙️ In our latest podcast, Zsolt Boda discusses @mores-project.bsky.social exploring moralized political identities and democratic trust. 🎧 Listen to it here: 👉 tinyurl.com/2tteujsv #MORESresearch

✍️ On election day in the Netherlands, Niels Graaf argues in his op-ed that the previous government attempted to undermine the rule of law and examines the risks that may lie ahead. 🇳🇱🇳🇱🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yr696xhm

✍️ Through dialogues between literature, film, and visual arts, Imre József Balázs traces how László Krasznahorkai’s work transforms despair into a haunting affirmation of art’s enduring power. 📖📖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/kwk2mkyz

🎙️ In our new podcast, @rachelmyrick.bsky.social discusses how extreme partisan polarization threatens not only domestic governance but also global stability and argues that it affects foreign policymaking. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yyymnp5e

✍️ In her op-ed, Laura-Stella Enonchong explains why Cameroonian voters face an electoral system designed to undermine the democratic will of the people. 🇨🇲🇨🇲🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4udj4xst

🎙️ In our new podcast, @alexdukalskis.bsky.social and @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social argue that the project to spread liberalism around the world has caused a snapback, in which authoritarian regimes aim to capture and repurpose the actors, tools, and norms. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/aa6cs3vz

🔜 Join us on Friday for this book discussion! 🗓️ Oct 24, 7pm CET 🔴📹 Online on YouTube 🗣️ Stefan Dorondel 🗣️ Luminita Gatejel 🗣️ @gerdu.bsky.social 🗣️ Cosmin Koszor-Codrea 🗣️ Adrian Matus Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdaes63j

✍️ Moscow offers cheaper access to energy, finance, and payment rails, but not the investment and rules that make a real order, Evgeny Romanovskiy writes in his op-ed. 🇷🇺🇷🇺 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/56r43xym

🎙️ In our new podcast, Anna Dobrowolska argues that the conventional narrative of state oppression versus societal resistance proves to be inadequate when examining Poland’s sexual revolution. 🇵🇱🇵🇱 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2p6u9y6z

🔴 LIVE NOW 🔴 Follow the roundtable, co-hosted with our journal, the @revdem2020.bsky.social, featuring László Bruszt, Pedro Abramovay, @cqschneider.bsky.social, Fiona Tregenna, and Zsuzsanna Szelényi! 📹👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uay3...

✍️ The justification for the Nobel Prize for László Krasznahorkai, “his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art,” both makes and misses the point spectacularly, Peter Nemes argues in his op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/49vk8fut

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Hannes Grandits and Katharina Tyran discuss how borders are created by conflicts and then changed by clerks, soldiers, smugglers, and villagers trying to make sense of a new world order. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdhwnb85

✍️ “Long considered as one of Europe’s most formidable writers, Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s winning of the Nobel Prize reveals the long process that writers from East-Central Europe need for recognition,” Zsuzsanna Varga writes. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3s2xjdb6

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Mohammad Ali Kadivar explores the urgent and timely question of popular protests amid global democratic backsliding and reveals underexplored dynamics at the heart of democratic transitions. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4epyh7j8

✍️ The problem with sustainability plans lies not in the strategic intentions but the very language of these agendas, which build invisible walls that decide from the start who and what is excluded, Deborah Martinez Aguilar writes in her op-ed. ♻️♻️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/nhkuyy2n

✍️ Bolivia will face its first-ever presidential runoff. The collapse of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) is a crucial factor behind this, alongside the country’s economic crisis and the reorganization of the right, Gabriel Pereira argues in his op-ed. 🇧🇴🇧🇴🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4zyef8ae