Why regime-change wars return when world order is in transition Why do regime-change wars re-emerge when global order is under strain? As multilateral institutions lose effectiveness and legitimacy, Fulvio Attinà argues that states are increasingly turning to unil...

Interventions like those involving Iran are not isolated events, but part of a broader transformation in which the decline of the existing order, the reshaping of coalitions, and the redefinition of sovereignty are unfolding all at once theloop.ecpr.eu/why-regime-c... @ecprtheloop.bsky.social

My latest piece on why Europe's support for the war on Iran was a strategic mistake in
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Rather than buying goodwill in Washington, European leaders undermined their own security and strategic autonomy. Read here:

theloop.ecpr.eu/why-europes-...

The struggle for a dignified return of refugees to Syria The sudden collapse of the Assad regime could result in Syrian refugees being pressured into returning. But Maissam Nimer and Susan Beth Rottmann say refugee returns must be voluntary, dignified, and ...

👏 Congratulations to Maissam Nimer & Susan Beth Rottmann who made the Loop Best Blog 2025 longlist for their article 'The struggle for a dignified return of refugees to Syria'.
👉️ bit.ly/3BWBThX

The Future Combat Air System and the limits of Franco-German leadership The EU's ambition to strengthen defence cooperation is exposing new tensions at the heart of EU leadership. Maya Ikene argues that the Future Combat Air System reveals the limits of the Franco-German ...

⛓️‍💥 The EU's ambition to strengthen defence cooperation is exposing new tensions at the heart of #EU leadership. 
✈️ Maya Ikene argues that the #FutureCombatAirSystem programme reveals the limits of the Franco-German 'engine' of European integration. #FCAS
👉️ bit.ly/4mK52Qn

🧭 'Differentiated membership' would overcome the EU’s enlargement dilemma The EU is caught in a dilemma between its geopolitical urge to enlarge and the high institutional standards for membership. Frank Schimmelfennig argues that differentiated integration would help squar...

🎉 Congratulations to Frank Schimmelfennig who made the Loop Best Blog 2025 shortlist for their article 'Differentiated membership would overcome the EU’s enlargement dilemma' in our 🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas series.
👉️ bit.ly/3BW7ZKy

🎭 What the West gets wrong about democracy Western democratic ideals have been imposed upon former colonies around the world. In Africa, this imposition reveals liberal democracy’s contradictions. Mebratu Kelecha invites a radical reimagining,...

🥳 Congratulations to Mebratu Kelecha who made the Loop Best Blog 2025 shortlist for their article 'What the West gets wrong about democracy' in our 🎭 #DemocraticTransformations series.
👉️ bit.ly/4lCChCV

The world at our fingertips, just out of reach: the algorithmic age of AI Artificial Intelligence promises unprecedented access to the world’s knowledge, yet delivers a curated illusion. As algorithms prioritise engagement over understanding, what appears open is in fact ti...

👏 Congratulations to Soumi Banerjee who made the Loop Best Blog 2025 shortlist for their article 'The world at our fingertips, just out of reach: the algorithmic age of AI'.
👉️ bit.ly/432CRCJ

Read more Celebrating The Loop's 2025 Best Blog prize winner

🎉 Congratulations to @ilheenk.bsky.social for winning The 2025 Loop Best Blog prize #ECPRPrizes @ecprtheloop.bsky.social

Her ⭐️compelling⭐️ blog piece, Metapolitical digital wars on gender, race, and queer life, was selected by the jury @dr-akudo.bsky.social, Alejandro Tauber & @priscyll.bsky.social

Why regime-change wars return when world order is in transition Why do regime-change wars re-emerge when global order is under strain? As multilateral institutions lose effectiveness and legitimacy, Fulvio Attinà argues that states are increasingly turning to unil...

🌍️ Why do #RegimeChange wars re-emerge when global order is under strain?
🗣️ Fulvio Attinà of @ecprsgir.bsky.social argues that interventions such as those in Iraq, Libya + Iran reflect not isolated crises, but a deeper process of coalition reconfiguration during systemic transition.
👉️ bit.ly/3OeMH13

So glad to share my latest publication @ecprtheloop.bsky.social 👇

First ladies are unelected, yet influential, and as long as we treat them as ceremonial figures, we will misread how executive power actually works.
theloop.ecpr.eu/the-politica...

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Much of the coverage of the Hungarian election has focused on Orbán. We know less about the strategy behind Péter Magyar’s and Tisza’s breakthrough. I’ve written a short piece for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on why this challenge succeeded.

Rewriting political memory in Chile Chile has elected extreme-right candidate José Antonio Kast as its new president. His victory, argues Anitta Kynsilehto, may reflect a broader process of rewriting political memory in the post-dictato...

🗳️ Extreme-right candidate José Antonio #Kast is #Chile's new president.
💭 His victory, argues Anitta Kynsilehto, may reflect a broader process of rewriting political memory in the post-dictatorship era, suggesting that Chileans' memories of 'never again' moments are fading.
👉️ bit.ly/4vxEBRK

🌈 Metapolitical digital wars on gender, race, and queer life Research on digital violence must account for its metapolitical dimension. Silvia Díaz Fernández reveals how proponents of the far-right metapolitical project are shaping public discourse to fit their...

🎉 Congratulations to the winner of the Loop Best Blog prize 2025, @ilheenk.bsky.social!
🥇 Read their winning article selected by our jury @dr-akudo.bsky.social, Alejandro Tauber of @euobserver.com and 2024 prize winner, @priscyll.bsky.social.
➡️ bit.ly/4j3e4pL

Why Europe’s support for war on Iran is backfiring Europe’s support for the US-Israeli war on Iran, in the hope of securing American backing for Ukraine, is a strategic mistake, argues Shamsoddin Shariati. Rather than buying goodwill in Washington, Eu...

🌍️ Europe’s support for the US-Israeli war on #Iran, in the hope of securing US backing for #Ukraine, was a strategic mistake, argues Shamsoddin Shariati.
📉 Rather than buying goodwill in Washington, European leaders undermined their own security + strategic autonomy. 
👉️ bit.ly/4tevjIN

🔮 Explaining Tisza’s Hungarian breakthrough Endre Borbáth argues that Tisza’s breakthrough in Hungary was not simply the product of anti-incumbent anger or Péter Magyar’s personal appeal. It rested on a combination of cross-cutting grievances, ...

🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.106
🗳️ @eborbath.bsky.social argues that #Tisza’s breakthrough in #Hungary wasn't just about anti-incumbent anger or Péter #Magyar’s personal appeal. It rested on a combination of cross-cutting grievances, participatory organisation + intensive campaigning.
👉️ bit.ly/3QeKq6v

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Who has scooped the 2025 Best Blog prize? Last week we awarded our annual £500 prize for the best Loop blog piece in the previous calendar year, as judged by an independent jury. Here, Managing Editor Kate Hawkins presents the longlisted piec...

🥇 Last week we awarded our annual £500 prize for the best Loop blog piece in the previous calendar year, as judged by an independent jury.
📜 Managing Editor Kate Hawkins presents the longlisted pieces — and reveals who has taken this year's top spot...
👉️ bit.ly/4vxBzNq

The political power of Latin America's first ladies First ladies in Latin America are more than ceremonial figures. They influence public policy, advance political careers, and build power within the core of the executive branch – without a formal mandate, or accountability. Carolina Guerrero Valencia shows why ignoring them means misreading presidential power itself

🙋‍♀️ #FirstLadies in #LatinAmerica are more than ceremonial figures. They influence public policy + build power within the core of the executive branch – without a formal mandate.
⚡️ @carolinaguerrero.bsky.social shows why ignoring them means misreading presidential power itself.
👉️ bit.ly/4cbgh0q

🌈 Feminist solidarities in times of chronic crisis Feminists all over Europe embrace solidarity as a form of political dissent – and face systematic repression as a result. Yet, Marta Rawłuszko argues, they continue to resist and offer deeply politica...

🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.39
👭 Feminists all over Europe embrace solidarity as a form of political dissent + face systematic repression as a result.
🪧 Yet, Marta Rawłuszko of @ecprgender.bsky.social argues, they continue to resist + offer political alternatives to capitalist logics.
👉️ bit.ly/3QDGU5F

Why US-Africa bilateral health deals are inherently unfair New US-Africa health agreements promise funding and self-reliance. But many include clauses on data and pathogen sharing. Fubu Ngubu argues that such arrangements risk transforming health partnerships...

👩‍⚕️ New US-Africa health agreements promise funding + self-reliance. But many include clauses on #DataSharing.
🌍️ Fubu Ngubu argues that such arrangements risk transforming health partnerships into exercises in digital extraction, without fair returns for African nations.
👉️ bit.ly/3Q7mTEE

'Contested Body Counts, a Missing Airman, and the (Necro)Politics of America's War in Iran' - a new blog from me now published by @ecprtheloop.bsky.social !

theloop.ecpr.eu/contested-bo...

🔮 Populism in government meets its limits With Nicolás Maduro’s political weakening and the electoral victories of conservative parties in several Latin American countries, Alberto Ruiz-Méndez asks whether these developments signal the end…

🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.105
🌎️ With Nicolás #Maduro’s political weakening and the electoral victories of conservative parties in several Latin American countries, ❎️ Alberto Ruiz-Méndez asks whether these developments signal the end of #populism's wild years.
👉️ bit.ly/4c7OX3g

How Péter Magyar is disrupting Hungary’s polarised political landscape In this year’s election campaign, argue Katinka Linnamäki and Emilia Palonen, Orbán is facing a formidable, new force. Emerging from the Fidesz cadres in 2023, Péter Magyar launched his attack on…

🗳️ In this year’s #HungarianElections, Viktor #Orbán is facing a formidable new force: Péter #Magyar + #Tisza.
↔️ Katinka Linnamäki & @emiliapalonen.bsky.social argue that Magyar has managed to avoid many of the pitfalls of polarisation that previously favoured Orbán + #Fidesz.
👉️ bit.ly/41YrPOA

Contested body counts, a missing airman, and the (necro)politics of America’s war in Iran The recent rescue of a US airman from Iranian soil obscures a deeper truth. As contested casualty figures emerge from America’s war, Kandida Purnell argues that what we see, count, and mourn in war…

🌍️ The recent rescue of a US airman from remote Iranian territory obscures a deeper truth.
📊 As contested casualty figures emerge, @kandidapurnell.bsky.social argues that what we see, count, and mourn in war is never neutral.
bit.ly/4cgq83T

☢️ Europe is too late to play the nuclear game France’s new nuclear posture and Russia’s nuclear build-up in Belarus have made Europe feel vulnerable. But, argues Olamide Samuel, stronger nuclear rhetoric will not make Europe safer or more…

☢️ #NuclearPoliticsParadox No.35
🌍️ France’s new nuclear posture + Russia’s nuclear build-up in Belarus have made Europe feel vulnerable.
🔨 Europe must now rebuild #AmsControl, consultation + dialogue before #Nuclear danger becomes harder to contain, argues @olamidediy.bsky.social.
👉️ bit.ly/4vhma3L

We wrote a blog post about our recent paper in
@polbehavior.bsky.social, where we discuss whether political participation is associated with better policy representation #polisky

The quiet power of energy dependence From the Strait of Hormuz to Europe’s gas crisis, energy dependence lets states project power through prices, not troops. This, says Ilan Kapoor, is reshaping geopolitical influence

🚢 From the Strait of #Hormuz to Europe’s #GasCrisis, energy dependence lets states project power through prices, not troops.
🌐 This, says @ilankapoor.bsky.social, is reshaping geopolitical influence.
👉️ bit.ly/3Q98R59

From Soros to Zelenskyy: Orbán's antisemitic electoral playbook As Hungary heads to parliamentary elections on 12 April, Cristian Pîrvulescu argues that the billboard campaign targeting Zelensky is not merely anti-Ukrainian rhetoric. Rather, it is the latest…

🗳️ Ahead of the #HungaryElections on Sunday, Cristian Pîrvulescu argues that the campaign targeting Zelenskyy is not merely anti-Ukrainian rhetoric.
🗣️ Rather, it is the latest iteration of an #Antisemitic strategy that has powered #Orban + #Fidesz through 4 consecutive victories.
👉️ bit.ly/3Oq0bqC

👇 Based on @polbehavior.bsky.social research.

Politically active people are better represented than inactive ones Politically active people — including protesters and those engaging outside elections — are better represented than inactive citizens, write Jesper Lindqvist, Jennifer Oser, Ruth Dassonneville, Mikael...

🪧 Politically active people are better represented than inactive citizens, write @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social & A Sundell.
📊 But do they affect policy outcomes any better than inactive people?
👉️ bit.ly/41lkPep