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Seeing is believing: how protest visuals are rewriting Romania’s future

April 3, 2025

Explaining the Trump loyalty cult phenomenon

April 2, 2025

🌊 Radical movements' social media strategies go local

April 1, 2025

Environmental politics and forced evictions in Egypt

March 31, 2025

Is Trump overplaying his hand?

March 27, 2025

April 3, 2025

Seeing is believing: how protest visuals are rewriting Romania’s future

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but protest visuals, especially during political upheaval, read like novels. Mimi Mihăilescu shows how visuals aren't just for documentation – they persuade, polarise, and shape public opinion. In Romania, where two protest factions are currently clashing, visuals are on the frontline of political warfare

April 2, 2025

Explaining the Trump loyalty cult phenomenon

Despite Donald Trump's erratic behaviour, his fan base has formed a loyalty ‘cult’ around him. Yet Elizaveta Gaufman and Adrian Favero explain how it is precisely his transgressive behaviour that is feeding Trump's charismatic authority. And this cult-like devotion of Trump loyalists, they argue, is reminiscent of darker times in US history

April 1, 2025

🌊 Radical movements' social media strategies go local

Social media platforms allow radical political actors to communicate with, and organise at, the sub-national level, enabling engagement beyond existing activist cohorts. Exploring local strategies of dissident Irish republicans and the far right in the UK and Ireland, Thomas Evans analyses this phenomenon

March 31, 2025

Environmental politics and forced evictions in Egypt

Egypt’s regime is reshaping the country's political landscape under the guise of 'sustainable development'. But such development is resulting in the forced eviction of ordinary Egyptians. Maria Gloria Polimeno reveals how the state is neglecting the dire consequences of its actions

March 27, 2025

Is Trump overplaying his hand?

The row in the White House between Presidents Trump and Zelenskyy shocked the world. It threatens the transatlantic alliance between the US and Europe. However, Paul Whiteley argues that Trump may be unwittingly creating a situation which will see the United States weaker and more isolated in the long term

March 26, 2025

🧭 EU enlargement: why citizens matter in shaping the debate

EU enlargement can benefit democracy and the rule of law, but the process often excludes citizens from decision-making and cost-benefit framing. For Giselle Bosse, this raises questions about legitimacy — and whether the process truly reflects the priorities of member states and candidate countries

March 25, 2025

How social media and online communities influence climate change beliefs

In an era of misinformation and political polarisation, climate science is under siege. James Rice explores how social and political forces shape climate beliefs, arguing for a strategic, interdisciplinary approach to strengthening environmental communication and trust

March 20, 2025

Europe and changing transatlantic relations

Relations between the EU and US are undergoing tumultuous change. Based on what we know from previous existential crises, the EU will coordinate its response to changing transatlantic relations using informal mechanisms and a pragmatic approach. Stella Ladi argues the EU must now develop a strategy for navigating this unfamiliar environment

March 19, 2025

Why Syrian refugees are unlikely to return home

Syrian refugees face multiple challenges in returning to their homeland. The threat of violence may have ended, but the destruction of infrastructure, along with social and economic instability, make return unlikely. Ümit Seven shows how prolonged displacement has led many Syrians to rebuild their lives elsewhere. Many, he argues, have created a 'pragmatic home' in host countries

March 18, 2025

How legal safeguards stabilise power relations in international organisations

International organisations are being challenged from two sides. Weak and rising states are demanding more influence, while declining Western powers turn away from institutions they helped to create. Benjamin Daßler, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, and Martijn Huysmans argue that institutional rules can help balance power relations and stabilise international cooperation in times of power shifts

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Seeing is believing: how protest visuals are rewriting Romania’s future

Explaining the Trump loyalty cult phenomenon

🌊 Radical movements' social media strategies go local

Environmental politics and forced evictions in Egypt

Is Trump overplaying his hand?

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