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📢 ECPS Interview

🎙️ Professor Benjamin Carter Hett: Trump Is Vastly Less Astute and Less Ruthless Than Hitler 🧠

✍️Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

📝 Leading historian of Nazi Germany Prof. Hett examines the promises—and perils—of historical analogy.

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🎥 ECPS Report & Video

📘 Virtual Workshop Series – Session 11: Inclusion or Illusion? Narratives of Belonging, Trust, and Democracy in a Polarized Era

🎦▶️ Watch the full session here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPYa...

📕 Read the report of the session here:🔗 populismstudies.org/virtual-work...

📢 ECPS Interview

🧭 Prof. Werner Pascha: Western Democracies Should Learn from Japan’s Long-Term Politics

✍️ By Selcuk Gultasli

📌 Professor Pascha offers an analysis of Japan’s political economy under PM Takaichi following the LDP’s supermajority victory. 👉 www.populismstudies.org/professor-pa...

🎥ECPS Interview / VIDEO

📢 Prof. Pascha: Western Democracies Should Learn from Japan’s Long-Term Politics

📌 Prof. Werner Pascha analyzes Japan’s political economy under PM Takaichi after the LDP’s supermajority victory.

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🌍 ECPS Virtual Workshop Series

📌 Session 12 | Decolonizing Democracy: Governance, Identity, and Resistance in the Global South

📅 Thursday, February 19, 2026 🕒 15:00–17:00 (CET) 💻 Online Event

🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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🎥📕 ECPS Panel at European Parliament - REPORT / VIDEO

🇪🇺📍Populism, Trump, and Changing Transatlantic Relations 🇺🇸🏛️

📗 Read the panel report: www.populismstudies.org/ecps-panel-a...

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📘 ECPS Report

🧩 Workshop Series / Session 11 — Inclusion or Illusion? Narratives of Belonging, Trust & Democracy in a Polarized Era

📌 When democracies promise inclusion, who decides what “belonging” actually means—and who is left at the margins?

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🎥 ECPS Panel at European Parliament / VIDEO

📌 Populism, Trump, and Changing Transatlantic Relations 🇪🇺🇺🇸

🏚️ This event marks the official launch of the ECPS report "Populism and the Future of Transatlantic Relations: Challenges and Policy Options.

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📢 ECPS Interview

📘 Dr. Lopes: Ventura Mobilized ‘Latent Populists,’ but Authoritarian Appeals in Portugal Have Limits

🗳️ Dr. Hugo Ferrinho Lopes explains why André Ventura’s success reflects a longer-term transformation of Portugal’s party system.

🔗Read now: www.populismstudies.org/dr-lopes-ven...

📢 ECPS Commentary

🌍 From Pax Americana to Pax Silica: Strategic Shifts in US Security Policy

✍️ By Dr. Prerna Chahar (@chahar_prerna)

📘 How is US power being redefined in the 21st century?

🔗 Read the commentary: www.populismstudies.org/pax-american...

📢 ECPS Commentary

📘 From the “End of History” to the “End of a Fiction”: What Davos 2026 Really Announced

✍️ By Professor Ibrahim Ozturk

📕🔗 Read the commentary: www.populismstudies.org/from-the-end...

📘 ECPS Report

⚡️ Virtual Workshop Series / Session 10 -- Resisting the Decline: Democratic Resilience in Authoritarian Times

📌 What does “resilience” mean as authoritarianism advances through abrupt rupture & normalization of populist repertoires?

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🌍 ECPS Virtual Workshop Series

🎓 Session 11 | Inclusion or Illusion? Narratives of Belonging, Trust, and Democracy in a Polarized Era

📅 Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026 🕒 15:00–17:00 (CET) 💻 Online Event

🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Prof. Costa Pinto: If Victorious, Ventura Would Pursue Orbán-Style Authoritarianism in Portugal - ECPS In this in-depth interview with the European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Professor António Costa Pinto—Research Professor (ret.) at the Institute of

📢 ECPS Interview

📘 Professor António Costa Pinto: If Victorious, Ventura Would Pursue Orbán-Style Authoritarianism in Portugal

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

📙🔗 Read: www.populismstudies.org/prof-costa-p...

📢 ECPS Commentary

📕 From Farce to Tragedy: The First Year of Trump’s Second Term and the Unmaking of America

🇺🇸 In this comprehensive piece, Cemal Tunçdemir examines the 1st year of Donald Trump’s 2nd term as a decisive rupture in American political life. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/from-farce-t...

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🌍 ECPS Report 2025

📘 Chapter 11: "The Trump Administration and Climate Policy: The Effects of Right-Wing Populism"

✍️ By Daniel Fiorino

📑🔗 Read Chapter 11: www.populismstudies.org/the-trump-ad...

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🌍 ECPS Report 2025

📘 Chapter 12: "Turbulence in the World Health Organization: Implications for EU–US Cooperation"

✍️ By Frode Veggeland (University of Inland - NIBIO)

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🌍 ECPS Report 2025

📘 Conclusion: How Should the EU Deal with Changing Transatlantic Relations?

✍️ By Marianne Riddervold, Guri Rosén & Jessica R. Greenberg

📘🔗 Read Conclusion: www.populismstudies.org/conclusion-h...

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📌 ECPS Interview

🌎 Professor Francisco Rodríguez: Venezuela Is No Longer About Venezuela, It’s About Demonstrating Power

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

📌 Professor Rodríguez unpacks Venezuela’s post-Maduro trajectory.

📖🔗Read the interview: www.populismstudies.org/prof-rodrigu...

🎥 ECPS Interview / VIDEO

🌎 Professor Francisco Rodríguez: Venezuela Is No Longer About Venezuela—It’s About Demonstrating Power

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

▶️📺 Watch the video: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQLF...

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📢 ECPS Interview

🌎 Professor Daniel Treisman: Trump’s Push for Executive Aggrandizement Puts Democratic Resilience to the Test

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

📘🔗 Read the interview: www.populismstudies.org/professor-tr...

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥

🌍 Prof. Stephan Klingebiel: Trump’s US Is Actively Undermining Multilateralism—So We Should Push for a “Global Order Minus One”

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

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📢 ECPS Interview

🌍 Professor Stephan Klingebiel: Trump’s US Is Actively Undermining Multilateralism—So We Should Push for a ‘Global Order Minus One’

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

📘 Read the interview: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-klingeb...

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🌍 ECPS Report 2025

📘 Chapter 17: "Vulnerable Groups, Protections and Precarity"

✍️ By Albena Azmanova (University of London)

📘🔗 Read Chapter 17 of the ECPS 2025 Report: www.populismstudies.org/vulnerable-g...

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🌍 ECPS Report 2025

📘 Chapter 15: "The Illiberal Bargain on Migration"

✍️ By Ruben Andersson (University of Oxford)

📘🔗 Read Chapter 15 of the ECPS 2025 Report: www.populismstudies.org/the-illibera...

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🌍 ECPS Report 2025

📘 Chapter 16: "Illiberal International: The Transatlantic Right’s Challenge to Democracy"

✍️ By Robert Benson

📘🔗 Read Chapter 16: www.populismstudies.org/illiberal-in...

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🌍 ECPS Report 2025

📘 Chapter 14: Illiberalism and Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Transatlantic Relations

✍️ By Saul Newman

📘🔗 Read Chapter 14: www.populismstudies.org/illiberalism...

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🌍 ECPS Report 2025

📘 Chapter 13: "Overview and Background: Democracy and Populism – The European Case"

✍️ By Douglas R. Holmes (Binghamton University)

📑🔗 Read Chapter 13: www.populismstudies.org/democracy-an...

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🌍 ECPS Report 2025

📘 Chapter 10: The United Nations in the Age of American Transactionalism

✍️ By Edith Drieskens (KU Leuven)

📑🔗 Read Chapter 10 of the ECPS 2025 Report: www.populismstudies.org/the-united-n...

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🌍 ECPS Report 2025

📘 Chapter 9: "Overview and Background: International Institutions, Populism and Transatlantic Relations"

✍️ By Michael Smith (University of Warwick)

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