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March 15, 2024

🔮 It’s not populism. It’s something worse

Dan Paget

Some ideologies look like populisms, but aren’t, writes Dan Paget. Instead, like populisms, these distinctive authoritarian ideologies envisage struggles of 'the people' against 'the corrupt'. Yet unlike them, they envisage 'the leaders' not as embodiments of the people’s will but as guardians of their interests. He calls this 'elitist plebeianism'

March 14, 2024

The third year of the Ukraine war and its possible end

Albrecht Rothacher

Drawing parallels with the end of the First World War, Albrecht Rothacher looks at the prospects for an end to war in Ukraine. He starts with the worst-case scenario and then considers four further ways in which hostilities might end

March 14, 2024

Domestic fossil fuel reserves help determine right-wing populist positions on green policies

Mehmet Haşim Çevik

Right-wing populist parties have divergent positions on policies that seek to combat climate change. Key to understanding why, writes Mehmet Haşim Çevik, is whether the country relies on domestic fossil fuels

March 13, 2024

🔮Can populists be free-traders?

Alexander Dannerhäll

Radical-right parties are widely regarded as EU-sceptic and opponents of liberal immigration policies. But does this necessarily extend to free trade? Alexander Dannerhäll studies the trade policies of the right-wing Sweden Democrats. He argues that the answer may be both yes and no, depending on how we define protectionism, and which analytical perspective we adopt

March 12, 2024

The Law of Delors

Jaap Hoeksma

Jaap Hoeksma argues that Jacques Delors’ 1985 non-vision of the European Union as an 'Unidentified Political Object' has actually come to pass – with a little help from the European Court of Justice

March 6, 2024

♀️ Women leaders in a world of crisis: five things to know

Tiffany D. Barnes

Contemporary politics seems besieged by crises, from pandemics to wars to economic austerity. What does crisis mean for women leaders, who remain underrepresented as chief executives and legislators across the globe? Building on their research, Tiffany D. Barnes, Diana Z. O’Brien and Jennifer M. Piscopo identify five ways to ‘think crisis, think gender’

March 5, 2024

🌈 Women’s roles in anti-authoritarian resistance

Saskia Brechenmacher

Saskia Brechenmacher, Erin Jones, and Özge Zihnioğlu write that gender is critical to understanding popular resistance against democratic erosion and autocratic hardening around the world

March 4, 2024

🌈 The insidious link between autocratisation and gender-based violence

Andrea Krizsán

Women and sexual minorities are facing unprecedented levels of targeted political violence. Andrea Krizsan and Conny Roggeband argue that gender-based violence has become a tool for right-wing populist parties and governments to promote and sustain an exclusionary ideal of the nation and the ‘people’ as white, patriarchal, and heteronormative

February 15, 2024

♟ The EU didn’t foresee autocratisation in Central and Eastern Europe – neither did political science

James Dawson

The EU did not foresee how autocratisation would unfold in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). But political scientists failed to raise the alarm, too. Lise Herman, James Dawson and Aurelia Ananda show that optimistic assumptions about democratisation misled policy makers and researchers alike

February 14, 2024

Nordic and Baltic elites surprisingly like-minded in face of recent border crises

Stefano Braghiroli

Traditionally, Nordic and Baltic elites hold divergent views on migration. Despite this, they have presented a united front in their response to recent border crises with Belarus and Russia, write Stefano Braghiroli and Sandra Hagelin

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🔮 It’s not populism. It’s something worse

The third year of the Ukraine war and its possible end

Domestic fossil fuel reserves help determine right-wing populist positions on green policies

🔮Can populists be free-traders?

The Law of Delors

♀️ Women leaders in a world of crisis: five things to know

🌈 Women’s roles in anti-authoritarian resistance

🌈 The insidious link between autocratisation and gender-based violence

♟ The EU didn’t foresee autocratisation in Central and Eastern Europe – neither did political science

Nordic and Baltic elites surprisingly like-minded in face of recent border crises

The Loop