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Kosovo and Albania: caught between Washington and EU accession

June 23, 2026

🌈 The conflictual politics of Pride events 

June 22, 2026

🌈 Pride under pressure from the far right

June 22, 2026

How precision weapons make civilian suffering the point

June 19, 2026

🌈 Conservative parties against gender equality

June 18, 2026
June 18, 2026

🧭 From enlargement to belonging: redefining EU membership

Vera Tika Recent contributions to this series have shown how enlargement has returned to the centre of European geopolitics. Vera Tika argues that the emerging model of gradual accession is transforming the meaning of EU membership from a binary status separating insiders from outsiders into a continuum of differentiated participation Read more
June 17, 2026

Cultural erasure is violating human rights in post-Soviet states

Amir Alecperov Violence and warfare are not the only means destroying ethnic cultural identity. Amir Alecperov reveals that in the former Soviet regions of Karabakh and Tatarstan, cultures have been slowly suppressed without overt violence – but with serious long-term consequences Read more
June 16, 2026

The crisis in Türkiye's Republican People's Party

Süleyman Güngör A court ruling has removed the elected leader of the opposition Republican People's Party in Türkiye, and reinstated his predecessor. The move has triggered competing claims to legitimacy. Süleyman Güngör examines the crisis, looking beyond party politics to the broader literature on democratic backsliding and judicial power Read more
June 15, 2026

☢️ Lessons for nuclear proliferation from the myth of Orpheus

Leonardo Bandarra The 2026 Nuclear Proliferation Treaty Review Conference revealed a treaty still alive, but under strain. Yet the real danger, argues Leonardo Bandarra, may be less dramatic than collapse. States may keep praising the NPT, while trusting it less. The myth of Orpheus offers a simple warning about what doubt can destroy Read more
June 12, 2026

Do multilateral lenders perform better under competition?

Bernhard Reinsberg The creation of new multilateral development banks (MDBs) increases competitive pressure within the system. How does such competition affect MDBs' performance? Bernhard Reinsberg and Benjamin Faude show that while pressure improves the quality of newly approved World Bank projects, it has no significant effect on ongoing ones Read more

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