Fadhilah Primandari
Fadhilah Primandari and M. Ammar Hidayahtulloh reflect on the Indonesian governmentâs response to Sumatra's calamitous floods in November 2025. They argue that when authorities gaslight disaster victims into believing they can handle the consequences, they merely prolong and delegitimise victimsâ suffering Read more
SĂźleyman GĂźngĂśr
At Davos 2026, world leaders no longer spoke as architects of a shared international order, but as actors positioning themselves amid its visible unravelling. Assertions of raw sovereignty stood alongside anxious appeals to law, values, and legitimacy. This, says SĂźleyman GĂźngĂśr, reveals a global system drifting decisively away from rules, and towards power Read more
Ugo Gaudino
Left-wing populists tend to be inclusionary and egalitarian towards ethnic minorities. ButâŻUgo Gaudino points out that their defence of Muslim communitiesâ religious grievances often clashes with their secular agenda. While they may de-securitise Islam, they frame other issues and groups as urgent security threats, in line with the populist friend-versus-enemy conception of politics Read more
Wannes Verstraete
Russia continues to rely on its sub-strategic nuclear arsenal, and NATO is therefore hoping in vain for sub-strategic nuclear arms control negotiations. For three decades, says Wannes Verstraete, the Alliance has merely been 'waiting for Godot' Read more
Nelson Santos
Nelson Santos, Sofia Serra-Silva, and Tiago Silva analysed voting patterns in Portugalâs parliament. They found that the legislative behaviour of populist radical-right Chega contradicts the partyâs anti-system rhetoric. Meanwhile, conflict has reached unprecedented levels in what was historically a consensual parliament Read more
AlĂz Nagy
Hungary is gearing up for national elections in April 2026. The authoritarian Fidesz party â in power for over fifteen years â is campaigning hard in the online realm.âŻAlĂz NagyâŻputs these developments in the broader context of digital authoritarianism Read more
Michael Asiedu
Michael Asiedu argues that in Guinea and Gabon, judges are doing more than routine certification. By validating post-coup elections, courts transform military rulers into constitutional presidents â without requiring genuine democracy Read more
Philipp Lutz
You might think that most people have misperceptions about immigration. Yet many false beliefs are merely low-confidence guesses, rather than firmly held views. Drawing on new Swiss survey evidence,âŻPhilipp Lutz and Marco Bitschnau show that this distinction has important implications for understanding public opinion, and for the quality of democratic debate Read more
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