Recent raids on LGBTQ+ associations and private homes of LGBTQ+ activists in Türkiye are more than an attack on a ...

Poland’s democratic backsliding was not preceded by voters becoming more extreme, argue Marta Kołczyńska, Maciej Sychowiec ...

When authoritarian rulers fall, their relatives often become targets for prosecution. Drawing on six African transitions, ...

Serbia's student movement is on the ballot on 25 October, but no student is a candidate. Drawing on internal documents, Sadie ...

Voters say they value democracy, yet governments that weaken courts and watchdogs rarely pay a price. Filippo Palmieri argues ...

Laura Southgate finds that democracy alone does not consistently reduce disaster impacts across Southeast Asia. A clearer ...

Vladyslav Butenko argues that Brazil’s presidential race is not a contest over the size of the welfare state. Lula offers ...

A fascist zeitgeist has replaced the populist one. Luca Manucci explains how, to attract voters, the contemporary far right exploits a widespread saudade for the authoritarian past. The firewall has ...

Kaweh Kerami argues that the Taliban’s first EU-hosted visit to Brussels was not recognition, as the EU insists, but something politically consequential all the same: proof that repeated contact can ...

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' ...

At Davos 2026, world leaders no longer spoke as architects of a shared international order, but as actors positioning themselves amid its visible unravelling. Assertions of raw sovereignty stood ...

Much work on populism reveals how populists mean different things when they claim to represent the real ‘people’ in the fight against the ‘elite’. A recent blog piece for this series makes precisely ...