Review of Democracy

🎙️ 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.

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✍️ 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. 🇪🇸🇪🇸

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✍️ 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. ♻️♻️

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🎙️ 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.

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Reimagining Hungary’s Foreign Policy: Challenges and Opportunities for a Future Democratic Government | Review of Democracy The April 2026 elections can mark the end of Hungary’s 16-year experiment with illiberalism and open a new chapter in its relations with Europe and the wider world. After more than a decade of multive...

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.

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✍️ 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. 🇭🇺🇭🇺

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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

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✍️ 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. 🇨🇱🇨🇱🗳️

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✍️🔖 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.

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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
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🎙️ 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. 🌍♻️

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🔙👥🧑‍⚖️ 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.

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✍️ 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.

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🎙️ 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. 🇵🇱🇵🇱🧑‍⚖️

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🎙️ 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.

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✍️ 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. 🇵🇪🇵🇪

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🎙️ 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.

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🎙️ 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.

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✍️ 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.

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✍️ 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. 🇦🇷🇦🇷🗳️

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✍️ 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.

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🎙️ 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.

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✍️ 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. 🇬🇪🇬🇪🧑‍🏫

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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.

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#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. 🇳🇱🇳🇱🗳️

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✍️ 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. 📖📖

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🎙️ 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.

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✍️ In her op-ed, Laura-Stella Enonchong explains why Cameroonian voters face an electoral system designed to undermine the democratic will of the people. 🇨🇲🇨🇲🗳️

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🎙️ 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.

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