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How Dark MAGA memes are shaping radical belief systems

November 6, 2024

Breaking free from toxic culture in academia

November 6, 2024

Apologies, forgiveness, and the peace-agreement divide in Colombia

November 5, 2024

Women’s leadership in the European Parliament’s external delegations

November 4, 2024

Is Russia’s 'go it alone' cyber security strategy about to change?

October 31, 2024

November 6, 2024

How Dark MAGA memes are shaping radical belief systems

Online memes have evolved from satirical messages to powerful ideological tools. Recently, the far-right 'Dark MAGA' movement has harnessed memes for political messaging and identity-building. Mimi Mihăilescu describes how Elon Musk has emerged as an anti-establishment symbol: revered, weaponised, and transformed within these radicalised online communities.

November 6, 2024

Breaking free from toxic culture in academia

Academia’s toxic culture is not just a systemic issue — it is also shaped by everyday interactions. While structural change is essential, progress can also come through the ways we treat one another. Individual actions can create a safer, more supportive environment for scholars and students, one small step at a time, writes Sofia Serra Silva.

November 5, 2024

Apologies, forgiveness, and the peace-agreement divide in Colombia

Lisa Strömbom and Gustav Agneman study the reintegration of former combatants in Colombia. Their research highlights the challenges of delivering apologies and achieving sustained peace in post-conflict contexts. Here, the authors reveal how people from different sides of Colombia's peace agreement divide react to public apologies, highlighting the challenge of achieving lasting peace.

November 4, 2024

Women’s leadership in the European Parliament’s external delegations

In the European Parliament, ‘delegations’ are formal groupings of Members who maintain inter-parliamentary relationships. At recently held constitutive delegation meetings, the gendered allocations of leadership positions revealed a complex picture. Cherry Miller and Lorenzo Santini find that, despite initiatives to improve gender representation, there has been a decline in the number of ‘head’ women delegation […]

October 31, 2024

Is Russia’s 'go it alone' cyber security strategy about to change?

Russia’s national security strategy shows a change in tone on the issue of foreign technology – from self-reliance to reluctant re-engagement. This, argues Tom Johansmeyer, may not affect the war but could feed a stable peace afterwards.

October 30, 2024

💊 The power of a good example: social models offer the best future for political science

Academic political science is a cottage industry compared with tendentious large-scale social experiments conducted by big businesses, governments and election strategists. Titus Alexander argues that political scientists need to recognise the power of institutions as social models and real-time experiments to help people solve problems and meet their needs better.

October 29, 2024

Georgian election results may challenge nation’s socio-political stability

Georgia’s elections on 26 October highlighted its balancing act between ties with the West and managing a complex relationship with Russia. Dennis Shen explains how competing visions for the country’s future, challenging geopolitics and potential sanctions threaten socio-political stability.

October 24, 2024

Trust in artificial intelligence makes Trump/Vance a transhumanist ticket

AI plays a central role in the 2024 US presidential election, as a tool for disinformation and as a key policy issue. But its significance extends beyond these, connecting to an emerging ideology known as TESCREAL, which envisages AI as a catalyst for unprecedented progress, including space colonisation. After this election, TESCREALism may well have more than one representative in the White House, writes Filip Bialy.

October 23, 2024

⛓️ Why India’s academic freedom is at stake

Saloni Pradhan examines the growing threats to academic freedom in India. From controversial curriculum changes to pressure on scholars, the government is eroding intellectual autonomy. The implications for India's democracy — and the country's future as a knowledge society — are significant.

October 22, 2024

What your menu choice says about your politics

Our response to political manifestos during elections usually reflects the different ways we think about politics. Yet, we can also demonstrate our politics in less obvious stereotypical associations, including consumption and lifestyle choices, argue Gaetano Scaduto and Fedra Negri, through an experiment they conducted on food in Italy.

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How Dark MAGA memes are shaping radical belief systems

Breaking free from toxic culture in academia

Apologies, forgiveness, and the peace-agreement divide in Colombia

Women’s leadership in the European Parliament’s external delegations

Is Russia’s 'go it alone' cyber security strategy about to change?

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