Review of Democracy

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🗓️ Mar 3, 2:15pm CET | 7pm NPT | 6:45pm IST
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🗣️ Pranaya Rana
🗣️ Nabin Giri
🗣️ Ishika Panta
🗣️ Sumikshya Khadka
🗣️ Anubha Anushree

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✍️ 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.

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🎙️ In our new interview, Martti Koskenniemi challenges claims about the “death” of international law and suggests alternative readings of the current situation. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️

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Mark your calendar for the next event in our series, focusing on religious actors.

🗣️ @emiliapalonen.bsky.social
🗣️ @lomascolo.bsky.social
🗣️ @shekhovtsov.substack.com
🗣️ @zsolt.bsky.social

🗓️ Mar 9, 5pm CET
📍 Budapest / YouTube

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Mark your calendar for the second event in our series! 🇭🇺🇭🇺

🗣️ Peter Kreko
🗣️ Veronika Kovesdi
🗣️ Balint Mikola
🗣️ @boralexander.bsky.social

🗓️ Mar 2, 5pm CET
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✍️📚🔖 The book’s quite approachable nature turns it into an essential read for anyone interested in the rise of far-right populism and its complex and often contradictory history, Luca Matasaru writes in his review of @quinnslobodian.com’s book.

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🎙️ In our new podcast, Shuk Ying Chan discusses her new book, which develops an account of postcolonial global justice as social equality by thinking with anticolonial leaders Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah and Jawaharlal Nehru.

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✍️ 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. 🇬🇧🇬🇧

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✍️📖🔖 More than anything else, the book awakens the reader’s wondering, Medeea Pasca writes in her review.

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🎙️ Our new series examines how societies, when confronted with rupture, authorize forms of exclusion and violence based on (ir)rationalism.

In the first podcast, John Blair traces how reports of revenants and vampires spread across various regions. 🧛🧛

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✍️📖🔖 Kutup Aytekin’s review of the book by Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley highlights how they place economic policymaking at the center of Poland’s PiS’s trajectory.

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🎙️ In our new interview, award winning journalist and filmmaker Amitabh Parashar reflects on how an unchanging social imagination continues to claim lives of girls despite the presence of laws. 🇮🇳🇮🇳

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🎙️ 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.

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🎙️ In this interview with @tetyanaantsupova.bsky.social and Sergii Koziakov (@biicl.bsky.social), Stanislav Kravchenko, President of Ukraine’s Supreme Court, discusses the challenges of adjudicating in times of war. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🧑‍⚖️

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✍️ In his op-ed, Kristóf Szombati examines the dynamics of the Hungarian election campaign dominated by economic grievances and a series of scandals, and the scenarios that could yet determine the outcome. 🇭🇺🇭🇺🗳️

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✍️ In his article, @teppoeskelinen.bsky.social analyzes what characteristics are particular to contemporary authoritarianism, as opposed to typical forms of authoritarianism at some earlier point in time.

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🎙️ In our new podcast, produced in collaboration with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Galo Mayorga and @kaimthaler.bsky.social discuss how state weakness, militarized security policies, and public fear are reshaping Ecuador’s democracy. 🇪🇨🇪🇨

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🎙️ In our new podcast produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @raschwartz.bsky.social discusses how logistical failures, elite conflict, and long-term democratic erosion combined to the uncertainty surrounding the elections in Honduras. 🇭🇳🇭🇳🗳️

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Join us and the @ceudeminst.bsky.social for this online book discussion! 👥📖

🗣️ Hiro Fujimoto
🗣️ @homeiaya.bsky.social
🗣️ Ellen Gardner Nakamura
🗣️ Amelia Bonea
🗣️ Adrian Matus

🗓️ Feb 6, 7pm CET
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✍️ 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. 🇧🇩🇧🇩

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🎙️ In our new podcast, our editors Adrian Matus and Anubha Anushree discuss the most important intellectual questions that might shape the year ahead.

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Join us and the @ceudeminst.bsky.social for this online book discussion! 👥📖

🗣️ Lars Behrisch
🗣️ @mariatheresia.bsky.social
🗣️ @diderotesque.bsky.social
🗣️ Alexandra Kardos

🗓️ Feb 5, 3:30pm CET
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✍️ Instead of a single political divide rooted in the legacy of dictatorship, Chile’s electoral landscape is increasingly shaped by three forms of rejection: anti-Pinochet, anti-Communist, and anti-establishment identities, @eljorobado.bsky.social argues. 🇨🇱🇨🇱

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✍️📖🔖 The transdisciplinary nature of the book is perhaps its most important methodological contribution to the field of literary studies, Luca Matasaru writes in his review.

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🎙️ 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. 🇩🇪🇩🇪

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✍️ The capture of Maduro not only reshapes Venezuela’s political future, but also exposes a regional order in which sovereignty is conditional, legitimacy is secondary, and US power faces few effective constraints, @martinschapiro.bsky.social writes. 🇻🇪🇺🇸

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📚 Here comes the list of five book recommendations by our editor Gabriel Pereira from 2025, related to democracy in Latin America.

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✍️ It is “an instrumental book for enriching scholars’ research and perspectives, but not so much for a simple introduction to any of these subjects,” our Assistant Editor Raluca Pop writes in her review. 📚🔖

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🎙️ 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.

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📚 Here comes the list of five book recommendations by our editor Kristof Szombati from 2025, related to political economy.

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