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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced economies did not simply abandon capital controls after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement. Martino Comelli and Pedro Perfeito Da Silva show that welfare states quietly took over their job.