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
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
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
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
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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