Hossein Kermani
Hossein Kermani argues that the Islamic Republicâs staying power relies as much on fracturing its opposition as it does on repression. Here, he explains how depolarising rhetoric, institutional transparency, and durable organisation will sustain pressure, protect activists during crackdowns, and ensure the failure of the regime's divide-and-conquer tactics Read more
Sonia Sarkar
Followers of the âHindutvaâ Hindu nationalist movement are using AI-generated pornographic images to degrade Indian Muslim women â including public figures. Their tactics, argues Sonia Sarkar, serve the movementâs wider drive to humiliate Indiaâs 200-million-strong Muslim community Read more
Visnja Vukov
Comparing Central and Eastern Europe with the Western Balkans, Visnja Vukov argues that the EUâs governance of economic integration is a decisive lever of transformation. When the EU prioritises and credibly enforces these requirements, it constrains rent-seeking and weakens state capture. When the EU defers them, however, governments can entrench clientelist politicalâeconomic coalitions Read more
Michal MalĂ˝
Michal Malý and Asker Bryld StaunÌs argue that synthetic dissidents mark a new form of opposition politics. In authoritarian regimes, AI avatars and chatbots can propagate risky speech without exposing a single, identifiable speaker. This can protect journalists and activists, but it also changes how responsibility, authenticity and repression work Read more
Lucas Schramm
Based on a 67-year arc of reporting by British magazineâŻThe Economist,âŻLucas SchrammâŻanalyses 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
Mattia Zulianello
Mattia ZulianelloâŻintroduces 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
Mimi MihÄilescu
TikTok deportation propaganda is fast becoming the new border wall. States, platforms and algorithms are fusing into a single machine. This, says Mimi MihÄilescu 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
Fulvio AttinĂ
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 AttinĂ Â argues that multipolarity helps explain todayâs stalled reforms, institutional paralysis, and fragmented alternatives Read more
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