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🦋 Ideology, normativity, and education

October 10, 2025

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

October 10, 2025

Why Netanyahu has been forced to accept the US peace plan

October 9, 2025

Why the EU’s democratic deficit persists

October 9, 2025

🌈 Abortion rights and the cost of compromise

October 8, 2025
October 7, 2025

☢️ The Global South in a changing nuclear order: between catalysing peace and quiet acquiescence

Shivani Singh Global South states have long advocated for nuclear disarmament, from the Bandung Conference to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Yet recent abstentions and muted positions on conflicts suggest waning commitment. Shivani Singh examines how multipolar dependencies shape these states' responses, and what it means for the nuclear order Read more
October 7, 2025

Why the resurgence of power politics favours informal governance

Steve Biedermann From Ukraine to global finance, informal organisations are stepping into gaps left by traditional institutions at a time of great power competition. With speed, flexibility, and a lack of constraining rules, these informal bodies are quietly reshaping international order write Steve Biedermann and Matthew Stephen Read more
October 6, 2025

The CDU wins in North Rhine-Westphalia – despite, not because of Friedrich Merz

John Ryan The recent municipal election results in North Rhine-Westphalia barely disguise Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s unpopularity. The result offers no respite for the CDU/CSU-SPD government at national level. Bold actions are needed domestically to tackle Germany’s deep and structural challenges, argues John Ryan Read more
October 3, 2025

🦋 The ‘Fourth Theorist’ and the future of democracy  

Rishiraj Sen A new book by this series’ founder introduced the radical idea of a yet-to-exist theoretician who can access and condense immense amounts of information. Rishiraj Sen looks at the advantages and pitfalls of this concept, arguing that the ‘Fourth Theorist’ risks becoming an authoritarian figure, undemocratic in their theorisation of democracy  Read more
October 2, 2025

🌈 El Salvador’s crackdown on gang violence has failed to make life safer for women

Julia Zulver Under President Bukele’s perpetual 'State of Exception', El Salvador has made international news for its historic decline in homicides. Despite this, women report that problems of violence are far from over in the country, write Julia Zulver and Anne Ruelle Read more

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