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

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

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

The Holy See has no army, no intelligence service and no counterterrorism capability. Yet, Shreya Nautiyal argues, Pope Leo ...

Refugees are not born of persecution; they are made by states. People may flee war, violence or persecution, but they only ...

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

Co-creation has become a familiar response to Europe’s democratic malaise. Marjan Marjanović argues that inviting citizens ...

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 ...

In spring 2026, only 57% of Bulgarians said their country had benefited from EU membership. This was the lowest share in the Union, against an EU average of 74%. France and Austria came next, both at ...

Drawing on research conducted with colleagues into Arabic-language social media narratives about Swedish child welfare services, Dana Sofi explains why correcting false claims is rarely enough to ...

Vladyslav Butenko argues that the results of the 2026 Swedish general election – a narrow-margin win for the 'red-green' bloc – signals not so much a retreat of the far right as how completely its ...