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November 17, 2022

📐Turkey shows us why it's hard to resist human rights violations through the courts

Gabriela Patricia García García

Human rights organisations in Turkey face a predicament. In using the law to confront human rights violations by the government, they then experience those violations themselves. Legal mobilisation against democratic backsliding has its limits, argues Gabriela García García

November 16, 2022

🦋 Democracy as a problem

Michael Hanchard

Michael Hanchard argues that there is no singular scientific method that is the property of democracy. Instead, we should, as WEB Dubois suggests, treat democracy as a problem replete with many possibilities for expansion and contraction, regardless of its normative and conceptual status as an aspiration and ideal type

November 14, 2022

California’s Cap-and-Trade Program can serve as a model for emissions reductions

Jason Gray

California’s carbon market design and inclusion of its Cap-and-Trade Program within its broader suite of measures helped the state reduce emissions drastically, and set the stage for its mid- and long-term goals. The program, according to Jason Gray, may serve as a model for jurisdictions contemplating their own emissions trading systems

November 10, 2022

🦋 Making and keeping democracy visible

Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach

One aim of the sciences of the democracies is to find different ways of making and keeping democracy visible, argues Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach. Practitioners and imaginers of democracies are doing this job. They help to understand and transform the realities of democracies – step by step – for the sake of democracy

November 9, 2022

Putin’s nuclear weapons talk is a bluff, but one with significant consequences

Albrecht Rothacher

President Putin has been clear in his intentions to use all force necessary, including nuclear weapons, to achieve his goals. This, argues Albrecht Rothacher, is a bluff, but its very use has hugely damaging consequences for international relations

November 8, 2022

Why Meloni’s victory in the Italian election was no surprise

Dario Mazzola

By the time Italians went to the polls in September, the victory of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party was a foregone conclusion. Dario Mazzola articulates the factors that led to the formation of the most right-wing government in the history of the Italian Republic

November 4, 2022

How far-right groups survive against all the odds

Sabine Volk

Germany’s largest far-right protest movement, PEGIDA, this month celebrates eight years of mobilisation and protest activity. Its survival, argues Sabine Volk, is a puzzle not explained by social movement theory. She explores an overlooked explanatory factor: PEGIDA's repetitive protest ritual

November 4, 2022

Sanctions on Russia: short-term survival, long-term destitution

Albrecht Rothacher

Albrecht Rothacher assesses the impact of sanctions on the Russian economy. He argues that, in the short-term, sanctions will have little impact – except on the peoples of Europe whose governments are imposing them. Yet, the long-term implications for the Russian economy could be more far-reaching, if not devastating

November 3, 2022

Italy’s changing international outlook under Meloni

Massimo D'Angelo

On 21 October 2022, Giorgia Meloni became the first female Italian Prime Minister. She is also the head of the most right-wing government in the history of the Republic. Massimo D’Angelo explores the implications for Italy’s foreign policy and European outlook, as well as the lure of authoritarianism in some European governments

November 1, 2022

♟️ Letting Agrabah go: why we must de-orientalise our approach to the Arab Gulf states

Dawud Ansari

De-orientalising the scholarship on the Arab Gulf states is crucial, argues Dawud Ansari. Commentaries and datasets generalise them as ‘monarchies’, erasing vital differences between these countries. New terms are a starting point for transforming research on the wider region – an urgent objective given new crises and freshened global interest

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📐Turkey shows us why it's hard to resist human rights violations through the courts

🦋 Democracy as a problem

California’s Cap-and-Trade Program can serve as a model for emissions reductions

🦋 Making and keeping democracy visible

Putin’s nuclear weapons talk is a bluff, but one with significant consequences

Why Meloni’s victory in the Italian election was no surprise

How far-right groups survive against all the odds

Sanctions on Russia: short-term survival, long-term destitution

Italy’s changing international outlook under Meloni

♟️ Letting Agrabah go: why we must de-orientalise our approach to the Arab Gulf states

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