✍️ While Indonesia’s government dismissed recent protests, @arsisto.bsky.social argues in his op-ed that they are a powerful, decentralized movement with deep historical roots. 🇮🇩🇮🇩 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4ph39ta7

🎙️ In our latest podcast, @fratrupia.bsky.social and Marina Simakova discuss the ideological co-optation of Antonio Gramsci’s ideas by the contemporary (far-)right. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4a9jeuur

✍️ In her op-ed, Saumya Aanchal analyzes how the Indian ruling party has been trying to reinterpret history, portraying India as an exclusive Hindu civilization. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4t988mh9

🎙️ In the second part of our podcast, @aborges75.bsky.social, Ryan Lloyd, and Gabriel Vommaro explore how voters’ attitudes, cultural conflicts, and deepening polarization are reshaping right-wing politics across Latin America. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/sed3jw2x

✍️🔖 “This is a work that transcends genres: it is part memoir, part sentimental treatise, and part literary experiment,” Manuel Torres writes in his review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3x3sdd7b

✍️ In his op-ed, Jaap Hoeksma calls on the EU to defend its constitutional foundations and to embrace and promote its functioning as a European democracy. 🇪🇺🇪🇺 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5canzs3a

🎙️ In our new podcast, @aborges75.bsky.social, Ryan Lloyd, and Gabriel Vommaro explore how Latin America’s right has been reshaped since the early 2000s, focusing on parties, movements, and leaders redefining right-wing politics in the region.- 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/22ajp7dv

✍️ In her op-ed, Elize Soer looks at the “mirror world,” where powerful groups co-opt the rhetoric and aura of resistance to oppression while inflicting atrocities on others. 🧑‍💻 Read it here: 👉 tinyurl.com/3d8dps32

✍️ In his op-ed, @nicholasrl.bsky.social argues why a liberal democratic conception of the separation of powers requires the judiciary to scrutinize the government’s acts more rigorously. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ckbe64ne

🎙️ In our new podcast, @andrewpgeddes.bsky.social analyzes different narratives on migration and the role they play in policymaking, as well as the rise of right-wing populist actors across Europe. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4rj2jdjt

✍️🔖 The book should provoke skeptics of judicial power to reconsider their assumptions, for it demonstrates that the question is not whether courts can matter, but under what conditions they do, Gabriel Pereira writes in his review. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/bd9k8568

🎙️ In our new podcast, Janine Silga analyzes the colonial roots of the European migration system and discusses possible ways to overcome coloniality in EU law. 🇪🇺🇪🇺🧑‍⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/wapv3xsh

🎙️ In the new episode of our special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @semuhi.bsky.social and @lucanway.bsky.social reflect on capitalism’s enduring imperfections while presenting it as a plausible force for democratic change. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2mdcv2cw

✍️ Europe’s ‘extraordinary solidarity’ with displaced Ukrainians in 2022 is increasingly being replaced by a politics of conditionality, and refugees are increasingly framed as workers expected to prove their worth through employment, Natalia Dziadyk writes. 🇺🇦🇺🇦 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/nhczerhw

✍️🔖 “Despite leaving the reader hungry for more at times, [the book] offers a compelling account of the unique beast in the history of interstate relations which is the EU,” Jan Mlynarczyk writes in his review. 🇪🇺🇪🇺 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yc6rcjff

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Dan Edelstein focuses on providing a new understanding of the concept of revolution and recovers the overlooked role of Polybius in shaping the constitutional imagination of early modern Europe. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y64tx77b

🎙️ In the second part of this podcast, Maciej Kisilowski lays out his proposals for a new constitutional settlement for Poland, aimed at addressing the roots and consequences of the severe polarization of the Polish society. 🇵🇱🇵🇱 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/473wnyb6

👥 The Budapest Forum, co-organized by the Municipality of Budapest, Political Capital, and us returns to discuss the most pressing issues facing citizens of democratic and nominally democratic countries. 📅 Sept 17 Details and registration: 👉 budapestforum.org

✍️🔖 While the instrumentalization of law is hardly an unknown phenomenon, Catalina Smulovitz unpacks how this process has developed in Argentina and how its dynamics resonate across Latin American democracies, Gabriel Pereira writes in his review. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3psaxptn

✍️ In his letter, @moritzraykowski.bsky.social seeks to draw attention to the growing tendency among voters to label political decisions and practices as democratic or undemocratic based on ad hoc judgments. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yxykazc5

🎙️ In this new episode of our special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @stanleysbill.bsky.social and @benstanley.eu discuss the challenges, dilemmas, and paradoxes of liberalism after illiberalism in Poland. 🇵🇱🇵🇱 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3kaezn2y

✍️🔖 “While Abrahamian does well to call out the diseased globalization we live in today, she provides little hope for how to pose a substantial challenge to the cynicism that undergirds the hidden globe,” @anubha.bsky.social writes in her book review. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3ufmhb8k

🎙️ In Part 2 of our latest episode in the special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @berkesen.bsky.social explains how Turkey’s opposition is pushing back against an increasingly hegemonic regime. 🇹🇷🇹🇷 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/te3m6wkr

✍️Fueled by digital activism and pop culture, youth-led protests in Turkey converge with social policy innovations, marking a generational shift in how dissent and governance challenge authoritarianism, Ebru Işıklı and @elifcan.bsky.social argue in their op-ed.🇹🇷🇹🇷 🧑‍💻Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yxbaj98s

🎙️ In our new podcast, Inna Melnykovska discusses how the full-scale Russian invasion has led to surprising shifts in business-state relations in Ukraine, including a turn toward civic responsibility among the biggest companies. 🇺🇦🇺🇦 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3w6dk4hh

🎙️ In this interview, David Dyzenhaus explains how anti-liberal critiques underpin “Common Good Constitutionalism,” and warns that such theories both legitimize and encourage authoritarianism by undermining liberal democracy’s rule-of-law foundations. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2235j8cc

✍️ The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party’s corruption scandal may prove to be the silver lining Spain’s political system needs to reform and modernize its parties. The decision now rests in the hands of party leaders, Unai Gómez-Hernández writes in his op-ed. 🇪🇸🇪🇸 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yzt4vydn

🎙️ In Part 1 of our latest podcast in the special series produced in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @berkesen.bsky.social unpacks how Turkey’s competitive authoritarian regime is veering toward full autocracy. 🇹🇷🇹🇷 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mw9dpb83

🎙️ In our new podcast, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social explains why Frontex has so far evaded accountability for severe human rights violations and discusses legal pathways for change. 🇪🇺🇪🇺 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/7zrbnam7

✍️ In her article, Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager argues that wars are won by adaptability over brute force, using the metaphor of dinosaurs vs. insects to show how nimbleness defeats power. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ycxepwne

🎙️ In our new podcast, Maciej Kisilowski examines the implications of the Polish presidential elections and addresses whether liberals and progressives are capable of correctly identifying the prevailing sentiments in a deeply divided society. 🇵🇱🇵🇱 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/sd2urtrn

🎙️ In this new episode of our podcast series created in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @richheydarian.bsky.social discusses the Philippines’ dynastic democracy and political prospects in a truly global framework. 🇵🇭🇵🇭 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdhmynrn

🎙️ In the latest episode of our special series produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @paolososa.bsky.social and Moisés Arce discuss the rise of legislative authoritarianism and explore its implications both in theory and in practice. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5vm466x8

🎙️ In our new podcast, Balazs Trencsenyi offers a sweeping re-narration of modern European intellectual history through the lens of “crisis,” not only as an analytical category, but as a powerful tool of political mobilization. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4jjek43h

🇳🇵🇳🇵 In an insightful conversation with our Assistant Editor Vatsala Tyagi, Prakash Bhattarai shared his perspectives on sustaining peace, addressing migration, and tackling climate change in Nepal and South Asia. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5n77e663

📣 We are happy to welcome Ece Özbey as our new Co-Managing Editor, taking over from Oliver Garner. A doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Cologne, Ece joins Robert Nemeth in the new role. Thank you, Oliver, for your outstanding work, and best of luck with your next chapter! 🙌

🎙️ In the new episode of our Open Space(s) podcast series, Simina Bădică introduces one of Europe’s most ambitious cultural institutions: the House of European History. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mve2wrn8

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✍️ As Chile’s left prepares to choose its presidential candidate in a low-profile primary, the stakes are higher than they seem. @dbrieba.bsky.social explores whether the left can reinvent itself before the elections. 🇨🇱🇨🇱🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4zxaam4a

🎙️ In our new podcast, Leigh Jenco and @pochoaespejo.bsky.social discuss what it means to think politically beyond the Western canon and what challenges arise when dealing with disciplinary boundaries. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/387xymb8

✍️In our op-ed Elizabeth Soer shows how conspiracy, race, and far-right networks coalesced to shape American policy and make white fear a global export. Read it 👉: tinyurl.com/mrythrzt

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Hemangini Gupta explores how startup cultures in India, often hailed as symbols of democratic opportunity and disruption capitalism, are in fact deeply shaped by caste, gender, and labor hierarchies. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mxf38eaj

🎙️ In this episode of our Open Space(s) series, Bohdan Shumylovych introduces the Center for Urban History (Lviv🇺🇦), a unique institutional model at the intersection between memory, space, and digital innovation. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yn7bkfxp

✍️ “Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ redefined sustainability through a populist moral logic, casting it as a conflict between the people and indifferent elites,” Deborah Martinez writes in her op-ed. 🇻🇦🇻🇦 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y2arjj4m

✍️🇮🇹 Italy is reclaiming its traditional role as a geopolitical hinge between Europe and the wider world. As ever, it pursues influence through flexibility, not fixed loyalties, Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager writes in her op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3kn2tsp6

✍️ In this op-ed, @cerencevik.bsky.social analyzes China’s falling CO2 emissions, which has the potential to redefine the pace and politics of global climate action, but demands closer scrutiny. 🇨🇳♻️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/45tbfhm5

🎙️ In our new podcast, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social discusses the risks of focusing too heavily on legality in the fight against rising authoritarianism. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3tkf9ymj

✍️🔖 The absent catharsis is supported by the novel’s symbols, Adrian Matus writes in his review of Eduardo Halfon’s “Tarentule.” 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4sfcvser

🎧to our new 🎙️ @vincent-liegey.bsky.social on the roots, trajectory, and challenges of the degrowth movement. Liegey, touches on the erosion of trust in mainstream politics, the psychological cost of economic life, and the political ambivalence of youth. 👉https://tinyurl.com/5n7kfaec

✍️ In her op-ed, @annawojcik.bsky.social examines the outcome of Poland’s presidential election and explores what the future strategy of the pro-democratic governing coalition must entail. 🇵🇱🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2nyy2rhp