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🧭 Framing wartime enlargement: still a process, after all 

October 15, 2025

Albania’s AI minister: 'avatar democracy' and the spectacle of accountability

October 14, 2025

☢️ Why irreversible nuclear disarmament is a lonely pursuit for African states

October 14, 2025

Is 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' a genuine mental illness?

October 13, 2025

Performative violence: Charlie Kirk and the meme-ification of terror

October 13, 2025
October 10, 2025

🦋 Ideology, normativity, and education

Michał Biedowicz Michał Biedowicz outlines a tripartite caveat for this new phase of the Science of Democracy discussion by considering a concept well known but rarely engaged in the study of politics: ideology. Here, he opens up normative considerations that need to be guided by education Read more
October 10, 2025

Is the 'Remigration and Reconquest' committee a turning point for Italy's extreme right? 

Federico Taddei On 6 September 2025, the Italian extreme right sealed a new pact. At a national congress, CasaPound Italia, Patriots’ Network (a Forza Nuova splinter), Veneto Skinhead Front, and Brescia to Bresciani launched the committee they call Remigration and Reconquest. Federico Taddei argues its launch could mark a turning point in Italy’s extreme-right galaxy  Read more
October 9, 2025

Why Netanyahu has been forced to accept the US peace plan

Paul Whiteley Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted Trump's plan for peace in Gaza in principle – though he is likely to try and sabotage it. Paul Whiteley warns that this is a dangerous strategy given Netanyahu's woeful approval ratings among ordinary Israelis Read more
October 9, 2025

Why the EU’s democratic deficit persists

Jan Pieter Beetz Pro-EU MEPs have long pursued a logic of democratisation based on institutional mimicry. But as Jan Pieter Beetz, Gilles Pittoors and Wouter Wolfs argue, this path has become ideologically entrenched at the expense of alternative models that might better connect with European citizens Read more
October 8, 2025

🌈 Abortion rights and the cost of compromise

Clare Daniel Abortion rights advocates in hostile environments face difficult choices. Clare Daniel, Anna Mitchell Mahoney and Grace Riley’s research in Louisiana shows how traditional advocacy approaches fail to sway legislators, while attempts to communicate across differences risk long-term consequences. Gender scholarship must contend with the dilemma of sacrificing broader goals for smaller, immediate impacts in increasingly constrained political landscapes Read more

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