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How Lithuania is navigating security as Pax Americana fades 

April 17, 2026

Rewriting political memory in Chile

April 17, 2026

Why Europe’s support for war on Iran is backfiring 

April 16, 2026

🔮 Explaining Tisza’s Hungarian breakthrough

April 16, 2026

Who has scooped the 2025 Best Blog prize?

April 15, 2026
April 15, 2026

The political power of Latin America's first ladies 

Carolina Guerrero Valencia First ladies in Latin America are more than ceremonial figures. They influence public policy, advance political careers, and build power within the core of the executive branch – without a formal mandate, or accountability. Carolina Guerrero Valencia shows why ignoring them means misreading presidential power itself  Read more
April 14, 2026

🌈 Feminist solidarities in times of chronic crisis

Marta Rawłuszko Feminists all over Europe embrace solidarity as a form of political dissent – and face systematic repression as a result. Yet, Marta Rawłuszko argues, they continue to resist and offer deeply political and practical alternatives to capitalist and nation-state logics  Read more
April 14, 2026

Why US-Africa bilateral health deals are inherently unfair

Fubu Ngubu New US-Africa health agreements promise funding and self-reliance. But many include clauses on data and pathogen sharing. Fubu Ngubu argues that such arrangements risk transforming health partnerships into exercises in digital extraction. African data is generating global value without fair returns for African nations Read more
April 13, 2026

🔮 Populism in government meets its limits

Alberto Ruiz-Méndez With Nicolás Maduro’s political weakening and the electoral victories of conservative parties in several Latin American countries, Alberto Ruiz-Méndez asks whether these developments signal the end of the wild years of populism. Here, he examines what the Latin American experience reveals about its limits Read more
April 10, 2026

How Péter Magyar is disrupting Hungary’s polarised political landscape 

Katinka Linnamäki In this year’s election campaign, argue Katinka Linnamäki and Emilia Palonen, Orbán is facing a formidable, new force. Emerging from the Fidesz cadres in 2023, Péter Magyar launched his attack on Orbán. He has since managed to avoid many of the pitfalls of polarisation that have favoured Orbán previously  Read more

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