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
As reports of gendered violence emerge from Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and elsewhere, a crucial question remains: whose stories shape our understanding of war? Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund and Johanna Mannergren show how women's testimonies have transformed how the world recognises wartime violence. Despite this, women remain marginal to many accounts of conflict
Drawing on her research at the Historical Archives of the European Union, Katerina Klimoska argues that Europe’s current geopolitical awakening is less a departure from the past than a rediscovery of ideas embedded in European integration from its earliest postwar years
Ultra-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella won 10.3 million votes in the first round of presidential elections in Colombia. But Julia Zulver and Priscyll Anctil Avoine warn that an 'iron fist' security approach carries significant risks for Colombian democracy
As states adapt through alternative trade networks, shadow fleets, and new payment systems, Ilan Kapoor reveals how sanctions increasingly impose costs without securing political compliance
Populist radical-right parties are forging cross-border ties. Yunus Poblome's research into Conservative Political Action Conferences reveals how inter-and transnational populists have established international alliances
For decades, Europe prospered under American security guarantees, open trade and cheap external imports. That world is disappearing. Faced with a more antagonistic United States, a rising China and global geopolitical competition, Dennis Shen says the EU must either become a strategic power in its own right – or risk longer-term decline
Regional organisations are increasingly powerful players on the global stages, accumulating authority that once belonged to sovereign states. However, Anja Jetschke and Samuel Standaert show that as these organisations grow, they distribute their power over different organs, creating checks and balances and increasing their organisational capacity
When we think of democratic innovation, we usually picture citizens voting. But Annalisa Quaglia and Federico De Marco argue that a quiet transformation is underway elsewhere. Faced with the decline of remote areas, local public administrations are becoming the new collaborative arenas for democratic legitimacy – though not without significant challenges
Western democracies' responsiveness machinery has been quietly dismantled. To repair the representative disconnect, says Lorenzo De Sio, we must first understand precisely what is broken
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