📢 ECPS Virtual Workshop Series / VIDEO 🎥

🚨 Session 16: Voices of Democracy: Art, Law & Leadership in the Era of Polarization

⚡️ Democracy is not only institutional—but also symbolic, affective, and interpretive.

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📢 ECPS Interview / Ten Years on with Brexit 🎥 VIDEO

🇬🇧 Professor Mark Corner: With Brexit, the UK Has Lost More Than It Has Gained

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

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📕 Read the conversation: 🔗 populismstudies.org/ten-years-on...

📢 ECPS Interview / 🎥 VIDEO

🇭🇺 Eszter Kováts: Orbán’s Defeat Doesn’t Mean the End of Illiberal Politics in Europe

✍️ By Selcuk Gultasli

🎥▶️ Watch the full interview: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Ic...

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📢 ECPS Interview / 🎥 VIDEO

🇬🇧 Professor Portes: Brexit Has Not Solved Britain’s Problems; It Made Them Worse

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🎥▶️ Watch now the full conversation: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHL6...

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📢 ECPS 5th Annual International Symposium

🛡️ Reforming & Safeguarding Liberal Democracy: Systemic Crises, Populism & Democratic Resilience

📌Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📌 Event page: www.populismstudies.org/the-5th-annu...

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📢 ECPS Interview / Ten Years on with Brexit

🇬🇧 Prof. Corner: With Brexit, the UK Has Lost More Than It Has Gained

🚨 Professor Mark Corner argues that Brexit has left the UK weaker rather than stronger—economically, constitutionally, and strategically. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/ten-years-on...

📢 ECPS Interview

🇭🇺 Dr. Eszter Kováts: Orbán’s Defeat Doesn’t Mean the End of Illiberal Politics in Europe

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

📌 Dr. Eszter offers a sober reassessment of the post-2026 political landscape in Hungary and beyond.

📕 Read now: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-kovats-or...

📢 ECPS Commentary

🇪🇨 Security at What Cost? Punitive Populism and Democratic Trade-offs in Ecuador

✍️ By Emilio Hernández

📌 The author offers a compelling examination of Ecuador’s recent security crisis as a paradigmatic case of punitive populism.

📕 Read: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/security-at-...

📢 ECPS Interview / Ten Years on with Brexit

🇬🇧 Professor Jonathan Portes: Brexit Has Not Solved Britain’s Problems; It Made Them Worse

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

📕 Read now: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/ten-years-on...

📢 ECPS Commentary

📌Dismantling an Embedded Autocracy

✍️ By Attila Antal

🇭🇺 In this compelling piece, Associate Professor Attila Antal offers a rigorous and timely analysis of the post-election landscape following the defeat of Viktor Orbán.

📕 Read now: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dismantling-...

📢 ECPS Commentary

🇪🇺 What Orbán’s Defeat Changes—and Does Not Change—for France’s Far Right

✍️ Dr. Gwenaëlle Bauvois explores how the defeat of Orbán reverberates beyond Hungary, testing the strategic narrative of RN ahead of the 2027 election.

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📢 ECPS Interview

🚨 Professor Pepper Culpepper: Populism Is Democracy’s Way of the People Telling Elites to “Listen Harder”

📕 Read the interview for a rich analysis of populism’s ambivalence, its risks, and its potential to rebalance contemporary democracy: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-culpepp...

📢 ECPS Interview | 🎥 VIDEO

🎓 Professor Sheri Berman: Democratic Backsliding Is Neither Sudden nor Surprising

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🎥 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLk2...

📕 Read more: 🔗 populismstudies.org/prof-berman-...

📢 ECPS Interview

🤖 Assoc. Prof. Anastasopoulos: AI May Transform Populism by Mobilizing Highly Skilled Workers

📌 Assoc. Prof. Jason Anastasopoulos offers a compelling & cautionary analysis of artificial intelligence as a transformative political force.

📕🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-a...

📢 ECPS European Observatory / Commentary

🇫🇮 The Ripple Effect: How a Finnish Hate Speech Case Fuels Transatlantic Culture Wars

✍️ By Gwenaëlle Bauvois

⚖️ A landmark ruling by the Finnish Supreme Court has sparked far more than a domestic legal debate.

📕 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/the-ripple-e...

📢 ECPS Interview

🇮🇷 Dr. Azizi: The Islamic Republic Will Survive, but in a Less Ideological, More Pragmatic Form

🚨 Rather than collapse, Dr. Arash Azizi anticipates transformation: a shift from revolutionary ideology toward strategic pragmatism.

📕 Read: www.populismstudies.org/dr-azizi-the...

📢 ECPS European Observatory

📕 When Change Becomes Conflict: Immigration and the Politics of Cultural Backlash

✍️ By Yacine Boubia

📌 Populism is not simply a reaction to economic hardship but a response to perceived cultural displacement.

📕 Read now: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/when-change-...

📢 ECPS Interview | 🎥 VIDEO

📌 Dr. Thomas Carothers: When Institutions Fail, Protest Becomes the Last Line of Democratic Defense

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

▶️ Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZX...

📕 Read now: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-c...

📢 ECPS Commentary

🌍 Survival Populism: How Environmental Crisis Fuels Democratic Distrust in the Global South

📌Dr. Oludele Solaja introduces “survival populism” to explain how environmental crisis is reshaping democratic politics.

📕 Read more: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/survival-pop...

📢 ECPS Interview

🇭🇺 Assoc. Prof. Attila Antal: Orbán’s Election Project Seeks Public Backing for Dictatorial Turn, Not Democratic Legitimacy

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

📕 Read now: www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-a...

📢 ECPS Interview | 🎥 VIDEO

🇭🇺 Assoc. Prof. Attila Antal: Orbán’s Election Project Seeks Public Backing for Dictatorial Turn, Not Democratic Legitimacy

✍️ By Selcuk Gultasli

🎥▶️ Watch the interview: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ZT...

📕 Read the interview: 🔗 populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-a...

📢 ECPS Summer School 2026

🌍 Europe Between Oceans: The Future of the EU Trade Between the Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific

📅 July 6–10, 2026

🎓 Apply now and join a global academic experience at the intersection of trade, geopolitics & populism.

🔗 More info: www.populismstudies.org/ecps-academy...

📢 ECPS Workshop Series / REPORT

🌍 Session 15 -- From Populism to Global Power Plays: Leadership, Crisis & Democracy

🔍 Populism is not a peripheral disruption—it is a central force redefining how “the people,” power & democracy itself are imagined.

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📢 ECPS Interview

🎓 Professor Sheri Berman: Democratic Backsliding Is Neither Sudden nor Surprising

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🔎 A timely and theoretically rich reflection on democratic fragility, populism, and global transformation.

📕 Read now: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-berman-...

📢 ECPS Interview | 🎥 VIDEO

🇭🇺 Assoc. Prof. Robert Csehi: Hungary’s Election to Test the Resilience and Limits of Populist Rule in Europe

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

▶️ Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZX...

📕 Read now: 🔗 populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-c...

📢 5th Annual Int'l Symposium

🛡️ Reforming & Safeguarding Liberal Democracy: Systemic Crises, Populism & Democratic Resilience

🌐 Online Event

🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔗 Details:
populismstudies.org/the-5th-annu...

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📢 ECPS Interview

🇭🇺 Assoc. Prof. Csehi: Hungary’s Election to Test the Resilience & Limits of Populist Rule in Europe

📌 As Hungary approaches its pivotal elections, Csehi offers an analysis of whether populist rule can be challenged through electoral means. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-c...

📢 ECPS Interview

📌 Dr. Thomas Carothers: When Institutions Fail, Protest Becomes the Last Line of Democratic Defense

⚡️At a moment of intensifying global democratic strain, Carothers offers a compelling reassessment of democratic backsliding and resilience. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-carothers...

📢 ECPS Interview

🇩🇰 Prof. Johannes Andersen: Danish Democracy Grows More Volatile as Voters Drift and Parties Chase Them

📌 Prof. Andersen argues that what appears as electoral fragmentation is in fact a deeper structural transformation.

📕Read the interview:🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-anderse...