✍️ The recent experience of Poland, which has been struggling to overcome the consequences of its own autocratic episode, might help Hungary to navigate the risks of re-democratization, @mariaskora.bsky.social argues in her op-ed. 🇵🇱🇭🇺
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👉 tinyurl.com/5n8krrhd
🎙️ In our new podcast, @fernandapirie.bsky.social discusses the historical roots of the rule of law and what these roots tell us about our present time. 🧑⚖️🧑⚖️
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/2pe3syjv
✍️ Hungarian PM Orbán’s defeat in last Sunday’s election rings in a new era for the country, but also for its partners to the East and West. Still, some challenges will remain, @gabrielagreilinger.com argues in her op-ed. 🇭🇺🗳️
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🔜 Join us and the @ceudeminst.bsky.social for this online book discussion! 👥📖
🗣️ Rana Dasgupta
🗣️ Daniel Kent Carrasco
🗣️ Kristin Plys
🗣️ @anubha.bsky.social
🗓️ Apr 20, 2pm CET / 5:30pm IST
🔴📽️ Online on YouTube
Details:
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✍️ Democratic erosion does not always arrive through rupture. In Chile, early decisions by Kast’s government suggest a subtler process: the gradual narrowing of democracy from within, @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social writes in her op-ed. 🇨🇱🇨🇱
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👉 tinyurl.com/2kxjuncy
✍️ The resounding defeat of the first proudly illiberal regime within the enlarged West forces us to revise entrenched wisdoms about it, Ferenc Laczó writes in his reflection on the Hungarian elections. 🇭🇺🗳️
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👉 tinyurl.com/27mvd9p7
🎙️ In our new podcast, Anna Varadi and Lucy Jeffery discuss their edited volume Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production and explore the theoretical underpinnings of the concepts of nostalgia and trauma.
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✍️ Hungary is awaiting a decisive election, which may cement autocratization or open a path for democratic recovery. In his article, Balint Mikola summarizes the most important expectations, potential outcome scenarios, and their respective implications. 🇭🇺🗳️
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👉 tinyurl.com/3uetsb5f
🎙️ In our new podcast, Vlad Adamescu and Razvan Petri discuss the new wave of youth engagement in Romanian politics, based on their own Politica la Minut initiative.
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👉 tinyurl.com/yt89sptj
✍️ Indonesian conservative thinkers claimed to save their country from populist socialism but built an authoritarian, corporatist, and developmentalist regime. In this essay, Iqra Anugrah (re)examines their ideological justification. 🇮🇩🇮🇩
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👉 tinyurl.com/5n79sucs
🎙️ In our new podcast produced in partnership with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Andrés Mejía Acosta and @javierpsandoval.bsky.social discuss how, why, and when elected leaders seek to undermine the state.
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🎙️ In our new podcast, @zelizer.bsky.social discusses the key accomplishments of Joe Biden’s presidency as well as the sources of his ultimate failure to fulfill his promise. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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✍️ “Despite being written three decades ago, this new edition feels both provocative and timely,” Christian Gormsen writes in his review of Peter Sloterdijk's book, published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social. 📖🔖
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👉 tinyurl.com/mw67jhhf
✍️ Jürgen Habermas’s greatest legacy lies in the ways he taught us to think about democracy, particularly through what he termed “deliberative democracy,” Roberto Gargarella writes in his article.
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🎙️ In our new podcast, Adam Mezes discusses vampire contagion in the Habsburg Empire and its broader impact on the history of science. 🧛🧛
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✍️ Javier Milei’s labor reform promises to liberate Argentine people from the obstacles that constrain their individual prosperity, but in reality, it redefines legal protections that have long safeguarded workers, Deborah Martinez argues. 🇦🇷🇦🇷
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👉 tinyurl.com/2wr9rkpd
✍️ In his op-ed, Tebo Esmond A. Ratsiripe-Sekgwa analyzes the decline of the Botswana Democratic Party, which had dominated elections for nearly six decades since independence before losing in 2024. 🇧🇼🇧🇼🗳️
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👉 tinyurl.com/ynjt338d
✍️ Across Western democracies, populist leaders are gaining traction and wielding considerable power. In their article, Adam Szeidl and Ferenc Szucs explore the economic and social consequences of this political shift.
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👉 tinyurl.com/yp8mvk5v
🎙️ In our new podcast, @gabilotta.bsky.social explores the risks that emerge when the relationship between politics and bureaucracy breaks down and how these tensions shape democratic governance.
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👉 tinyurl.com/382kszrh
🎙️ In our new podcast, Nils-Christian Bormann introduces the @erc.europa.eu-funded DANGER project, which examines how European democracies responded to political violence, economic crisis, and rising extremism in the interwar period. 🔍
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👉 tinyurl.com/5e9nkha4
✍️ It is “a well-informed and reader-friendly piece that offers tools for navigating a disorderly landscape,” Jonathan Bergman writes in his review of Finnish President @alexstubb.bsky.social's book, published by @columbiagr.bsky.social. 📖🔖
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/5svuhtme
📚 Here comes the list of five book recommendations by our editor @konstantinkipp.bsky.social from 2025 and 2026, related to the rule of law. 🧑⚖️🧑⚖️
Read the list here:
👉 tinyurl.com/4sfkjnru
🎙️ In our new podcast, produced in cooperation with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Luciano Da Ros and @manoelgehrke.bsky.social examine how courts can confront authoritarian behavior by elected leaders and why judicial action sometimes succeeds. 🧑⚖️🧑⚖️
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👉 tinyurl.com/48k3vrkm
✍️ Contemporary politics in South Asia involves historically complex questions of citizenship, loyalty, and state power, Ilyas Chattha writes.
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👉 tinyurl.com/5fuwhcwe
✍️ In his op-ed, Norman Joshua argues that a “military-juridical nexus” between civilian jurists and army officers in the 1950s built the legal foundations of authoritarianism in Indonesia, which still shapes the country’s civil-military relations. 🇮🇩🇮🇩
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✍️ “What’s the appropriate punishment for ISIS brides who didn’t commit any violent crimes?,” Ishita Prasher asks in her review of @nussaibah.bsky.social's “Fundamentally,” published by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social.📚🔖
🧑💻 Read it now:
tinyurl.com/2e5usayc
🎙️ In our new podcast, Minxin Pei argues that China’s post-Mao reforms produced not political liberalization but a resilient, adaptive form of authoritarianism, reinforcing centralized authority, fostering corruption, and sidelining reformist actors. 🇨🇳🇨🇳
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/3hzytua9
🎙️ In our new podcast, Kateryna Dysa discusses and reconstructs the history of witchcraft in Ukraine, with a particular focus on Podolia, Ruthenia, and Volhynia.
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👉 tinyurl.com/2fnxeb2e
✍️ It is an important contribution to understanding how institutions reproduce racial inequality in less visible forms, Valeriia Shaliakhina writes in her review of Aaron Kupchik’s book, published by @nyupress.bsky.social. 📚🔖
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/2ub6eca7
✍️ In the first essay of our new series, Gde Dwitya Arief Metera and Iqra Anugrah open an expanded discussion on the legacy of the New Order regime in Indonesia (1966-1998). 🇮🇩🇮🇩
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/yc5ad75t