Serbia's student movement is on the ballot on 25 October, but no student is a candidate. Drawing on internal documents, Sadie Zarris shows how a movement without leaders wrote itself an exacting rulebook, enforced by nothing but consent. The harder test, she argues, comes once its candidates become MPs
Constitutional revisions usually serve to improve the function of the polity, the state and the protection of citizens. But Greece's current constitutional revision, argues Dimitra Mareta, merely serves the political programme of the governing party, and has advanced with the help of far-right MPs. This, she warns, could lead the country down a dangerous path
Israel's next election is often framed as a referendum on the country's longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Liran Harsgor and Alon Yakter argue that public opinion reveals two different political maps: a clear divide over democracy and institutions, but a far less coherent alternative on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where voters and candidates struggle to articulate a credible political horizon
Voters say they value democracy, yet governments that weaken courts and watchdogs rarely pay a price. Filippo Palmieri argues that the reason is not indifference but a majoritarian idea of democracy, in which stripping an elected government of its constraints counts as a mandate fulfilled
Laura Southgate finds that democracy alone does not consistently reduce disaster impacts across Southeast Asia. A clearer pattern concerns administrative capacity and whether governments can turn political decisions into coordinated action when hazards place institutions under pressure
NATO’s Article 3 requires members 'to maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.' This includes psychological resistance and the involvement of civil resources and civil actors. Oscar Larsson analyses NATO's current discourse, and traces its evolution, to reveal the shift in vocabulary from civil defence to resilience
Vladyslav Butenko argues that Brazil’s presidential race is not a contest over the size of the welfare state. Lula offers protection through cash transfers. Flávio Bolsonaro offers protection from crime. The 25 October runoff will test which promise voters trust At first glance, Brazil’s current election looks like a repeat of 2022, when Lula da […]
Brazil’s 2026 election has put the Bolsonaro family within reach of the presidency again. Gülşen Doğan argues that the deeper story concerns what Lula’s 2022 victory and Jair Bolsonaro’s later conviction did not settle. Democratic institutions can constrain a leader without extinguishing the movement built around him In 2022, Brazilian voters removed Jair Bolsonaro from […]
How can researchers help their evidence reach the policy room? Drawing on practitioner experience, Frank Tu Ngo offers three hands-on tactics: seize policy windows, package findings for busy audiences, and engage policymakers early
Central banks are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to analyse data and improve economic forecasts. But Elisa Mustacchi argues that this raises a question that goes beyond accuracy and efficiency. If AI increasingly shapes the information behind monetary-policy decisions, who remains accountable for the judgments that follow?
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