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🔮 Trump and the unmaking of multilateralism

February 19, 2026

Why Iran’s opposition is fracturing – and how to fix it

February 19, 2026

​​​🌈 Hindu nationalists are targeting Muslim women via AI porn 

February 17, 2026

🧭 How economic governance makes or breaks EU enlargement

February 16, 2026

Synthetic dissidents: how AI protects dissent under repression 

February 13, 2026
February 12, 2026

What The Economist magazine's coverage reveals about the European Council 

Lucas Schramm Based on a 67-year arc of reporting by British magazine The Economist, Lucas Schramm analyses the European Council, a key institution of the European Union. He shows how that coverage explains why the European Council was created, how it evolved, what it does, and why its dominance is both useful and unsettling Read more
February 11, 2026

🔮 Making sense of decades of populism in Europe with The PopulisTree 

Mattia Zulianello Mattia Zulianello introduces the PopulisTree, a new taxonomy and open-access dataset that maps the full diversity of populist parties across Europe over recent decades. Building upon and expanding the existing PopuList database, The PopulisTree helps scholars, journalists, and policymakers analyse one of the most important political phenomena of our times  Read more
February 10, 2026

Transatlantic TikTok propaganda and the end of localised populism 

Mimi Mihăilescu TikTok deportation propaganda is fast becoming the new border wall. States, platforms and algorithms are fusing into a single machine. This, says Mimi Mihăilescu is turning deportation into bingeable content, burying resistance in the feed, and replacing physical walls with algorithmic control. Local populism dies and global spectacle rules Read more
February 9, 2026

The world order crisis is about authority, not polarity 

Fulvio Attinà The world order is not simply shifting from unipolarity to multipolarity, but undergoing a deeper struggle over political authority. Who has the right to make binding global rules, through which institutions, and with what legitimacy? Fulvio Attinà argues that multipolarity helps explain today’s stalled reforms, institutional paralysis, and fragmented alternatives Read more
February 6, 2026

🎈 How public consultations can spark local innovation 

Valesca Lima Valesca Lima argues that Irish local authorities tend to treat public participation as a formal administrative requirement. However, by moving beyond performative box-ticking and toward genuine co-design, we can bridge the trust gap. True engagement doesn't just legitimise decisions; it sparks the local innovation our cities desperately need  Read more

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