Sabine Volk
In countries across Europe, Pride events celebrating LGBTQI visibility face threats of violence. This, warns Sabine Volk reveals the transnationalisation of far-right activism and the mainstreaming of trans-hostile discourse. Democratic states, she says, are failing to protect marginalised communities Read more
Marius Bales
Marius Bales and Max Mutschler argue that precision weapons do not protect civilians. Indeed, in autocratic systems, they can make civilian suffering more targeted. In eroding democracies such as Israel and the US, weakening checks on executive power may also loosen military restraint Read more
Romain Biesemans
Reactionary gender politics are not the preserve only of the far right. Through a comparison between Belgium and Spain, Romain Biesemans and Archibald Gustin show how conservative and far-right parties converge in their opposition to gender equality Read more
Vera Tika
Recent contributions to this series have shown how enlargement has returned to the centre of European geopolitics. Vera Tika argues that the emerging model of gradual accession is transforming the meaning of EU membership from a binary status separating insiders from outsiders into a continuum of differentiated participation Read more
Amir Alecperov
Violence and warfare are not the only means destroying ethnic cultural identity. Amir Alecperov reveals that in the former Soviet regions of Karabakh and Tatarstan, cultures have been slowly suppressed without overt violence – but with serious long-term consequences Read more
Süleyman Güngör
A court ruling has removed the elected leader of the opposition Republican People's Party in Türkiye, and reinstated his predecessor. The move has triggered competing claims to legitimacy. Süleyman Güngör examines the crisis, looking beyond party politics to the broader literature on democratic backsliding and judicial power Read more
Leonardo Bandarra
The 2026 Nuclear Proliferation Treaty Review Conference revealed a treaty still alive, but under strain. Yet the real danger, argues Leonardo Bandarra, may be less dramatic than collapse. States may keep praising the NPT, while trusting it less. The myth of Orpheus offers a simple warning about what doubt can destroy Read more
Bernhard Reinsberg
The creation of new multilateral development banks (MDBs) increases competitive pressure within the system. How does such competition affect MDBs' performance? Bernhard Reinsberg and Benjamin Faude show that while pressure improves the quality of newly approved World Bank projects, it has no significant effect on ongoing ones Read more
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