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March 11, 2022

Putin’s game of ‘chicken’ in Ukraine

Paul Whiteley

Putin is staking everything on his conviction that the west won’t press the nuclear button, says Paul Whiteley. Sanctions will have little short-term impact, and a no-fly zone is of limited use when the major threat comes from ground-based artillery. Is it time for NATO to change tack, and go ‘all in’ against the dictator?

March 8, 2022

Bicycles could ‘build back stronger’ post-Covid – but may have unintended consequences

Lyndsay Hayhurst

Women and girls’ increased access to bicycles can support sustainable development, says the UN. Yet, write Lyndsay Hayhurst and Mitchell McSweeney, the bicycle may also exacerbate gender inequality

March 7, 2022

A welcome for Ukrainian refugees, but not those from the Middle East

Irene Landini

Eastern European governments show a high degree of solidarity towards Ukrainian asylum seekers fleeing the conflict provoked by the Russian invasion. At the same time, these governments continue to resist asylum seekers from the Middle East. Irene Landini explains the geographical, cultural and political factors behind this contradiction.

March 4, 2022

🌊 Autocratisation: the key to capturing today's democratic difficulties

João Alípio Correa

The concept of 'illiberal democracy' is well-founded, but João Alípio Correa argues that it fails to convey what is happening in regimes described as such. To gain a more incisive understanding of the current deterioration in democratic regimes, he proposes the umbrella definition 'autocratisation'

March 1, 2022

🦋 Democracy by any other name

Kathleen McCrudden Illert

Jean-Paul Gagnon has argued that the most promising way of approaching the total texture of democracy is through words. But, asks Kathleen McCrudden Illert, what’s in a name? Many theories that we would recognise today as democratic were not, due to their historical context, associated with the signifier ‘democracy’ – and these concepts will be missing from Gagnon’s data mountain.

February 28, 2022

The fragility of democratic freedoms in the Covid-19 pandemic

Pavlos Vasilopoulos

In research monitoring public attitudes during the Covid-19 pandemic, Pavlos Vasilopoulos, Haley McAvay, Sylvain Brouard, and Martial Foucault found that public commitment to civil liberties is highly volatile, especially when fear prevails. This, they argue, should worry proponents of democracy Restriction of civil liberties under Covid The Covid-19 pandemic brought unprecedented restrictions to civil liberties […]

February 22, 2022

🌊 The authoritarian consolidation attempt in Turkey

Görkem Altınörs

Görkem Altınörs and Ümit Akçay analyse the political economy of regime change in Turkey. The AKP's 'authoritarian fix' strategy was a response to multiple crises in the 2010s. Now, it has led to an attempt at authoritarian consolidation

February 21, 2022

Why Catalan pro-independence parties want their own state

Anwen Elias

Many assume that pro-independence parties want their own state because they believe the state has treated their territory unfairly. Anwen Elias and Núria Franco-Guillén argue that Catalan independentists also want independence to improve democracy and create a fairer, more prosperous society

February 18, 2022

EU foreign policy towards China is little more than the sum of its parts

Steven Langendonk

Steven Langendonk contests the idea that Brussels’ new China strategy is indicative of greater agency. Instead, he says, the EU-China relationship is firmly grounded in internal struggles. The pressure is on to manipulate member states' sentiments and to provide a new political narrative for a changing relationship.

February 16, 2022

Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent democratic theory

Ramin Jahanbegloo

Ramin Jahanbegloo explores how Mahatma Gandhi’s non-western democratic theory prescribes empathetic emancipation through nonviolent action. Gandhi sought to bring about a truly democratic transformation of society, thereby securing an ethical social order

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Putin’s game of ‘chicken’ in Ukraine

Bicycles could ‘build back stronger’ post-Covid – but may have unintended consequences

A welcome for Ukrainian refugees, but not those from the Middle East

🌊 Autocratisation: the key to capturing today's democratic difficulties

🦋 Democracy by any other name

The fragility of democratic freedoms in the Covid-19 pandemic

🌊 The authoritarian consolidation attempt in Turkey

Why Catalan pro-independence parties want their own state

EU foreign policy towards China is little more than the sum of its parts

Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent democratic theory

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