Radu-Mihai Triculescu
Under growing public scrutiny and growing demands for public communication, how does the European Commission respond to various political pressures? Drawing on two new studies, Radu-Mihai Triculescu, Leonce Röth, Christoph Ivanusch and Klaus H. Goetz show how the European Commission balances and communicatively addresses problem and public pressures in migration and asylum policy Read more
Sonia Sarkar
India sits precariously in this US-Israel-led war against its old regional partner Iran. This, says Sonia Sarkar, is because of Hindu supremacist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proximity to Israel's leader Benjamin Netanyahu Read more
Ruairidh Brown
Trump’s dismissal of Keir Starmer as 'no Churchill' cuts Britain deep, argues Ruairidh Brown. His open contempt strikes at the heart of Britain’s post-imperial anxiety Read more
Williamkery Gaddam
Predictions of regime collapse in Iran often misunderstand the Islamic Republic’s internal mechanics, says Williamkery Gaddam. Authority is not centralised but distributed among clerical bodies, security organisations, and political institutions. This enables the regime to manage elite competition and absorb external shocks, making externally driven transformation far harder than many observers assume Read more
Cristian Pîrvulescu
The attack on Iran by Israel and the US can be seen as an attempt to force regime change. Yet, says Cristian Pîrvulescu, authoritarian regimes rarely collapse when leaders fall. Systems built around institutions often survive because they reproduce power through structures that organise coercion and coordinate elites Read more
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