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🧭 Why enlargement is EU geopolitics 

December 5, 2025

India has a new friend: the Taliban 

December 4, 2025

☢️ The proliferation we need: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones 

December 4, 2025

🎈 Why we shouldn't give up on representative democracy just yet

December 3, 2025

🌈 Why gendering democracy matters now, more than ever  

December 2, 2025
December 1, 2025

🦋 The theory of democracy revisited: an interdisciplinary call to arms

Dimitris Kastritis Discussions about democracy have never been more vibrant. Yet, debates often unfold in a highly simplistic or unreflective way. Dimitris Kastritis joins the Science of Democracy 2.0 to argue for the necessity to continue raising new questions in democratic theory Read more
November 28, 2025

☢️ Africa’s disarmament experience holds lessons for a stalled nuclear debate 

Robin E. Möser African states have long championed nuclear disarmament, from resisting colonial-era testing to advancing the Pelindaba and Prohibition Treaties. Yet frustration is growing over the slow pace of progress and exclusion from global forums. Robin Möser argues that African experiences offer lessons to revitalise inclusivity ahead of the 2026 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conference Read more
November 28, 2025

The failure of social housing in the UK and the abandonment of the the poor

Will Edmonds Will Edmonds argues that the UK’s targeted, means-tested social housing is permitted by a culture that criminalises poverty, and has enabled tragedies like the Grenfell fire. A look through the history of UK public housing shows that the government should adopt a humane, universalist approach Read more
November 27, 2025

🔮 Populist publics are becoming increasingly transnational

Francesco Vittonetto Brought together by a shared ideology, converging around global events, and united in their support for radical-right leaders, populist audiences on social media are becoming increasingly global. Francesco Vittonetto discusses why we can now start talking about transnational populist publics  Read more
November 27, 2025

🦋 Democratising democracy science: challenges, chances, and aporias

Peter A. Kraus This new phase in the Science of Democracy series sets a brisk and insightful agenda for overcoming the gridlock in democracy studies. While he embraces its key points, Peter A. Kraus argues that the ultimate and inescapable challenge in developing a democratic epistemics is the politics involved Read more

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