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🚢 As states adapt through alternative trade networks, shadow fleets, and new payment systems, @ilankapoor.bsky.social reveals how #Sanctions increasingly impose costs 💰️ without securing political compliance.
👉️ bit.ly/3SsXI08
🌍️ Regional organisations are increasingly powerful players on the global stage.
⚡️ Using @prxjournal.bsky.social research, @ajetsch.bsky.social & Samuel Standaert show that as they grow, they distribute power over different organs, increasing their organisational capacity.
👉️ bit.ly/4uyYUNb
🤝 For decades, Europe prospered under American security guarantees, open trade and cheap external imports.
🌐 Now, faced with a more antagonistic US, a rising China and global geopolitical competition, the EU must become a strategic power in its own right – or risk longer-term decline bit.ly/4ed9Vh0
🔮#FutureOfPopulism No.109
🔗 Populist radical-right parties are forging cross-border ties. 🗣️ Yunus Poblome's research into Conservative Political Action Conferences in #Hungary reveals how inter-and transnational populists have established international alliances. #CPAC
👉 bit.ly/4xednk1
🎈 #RepresentativeDisconnect No.11
🔨 Western democracies' responsiveness machinery has been quietly dismantled.
⛓️💥 To repair the representative disconnect, says @ldesio.bsky.social, we must first understand precisely what is broken.
👉️ bit.ly/49vAkFg
💊 #RescuingDemocracy No.15
🗳️ When we think of democratic innovation, we usually picture citizens #Voting.
🏘️ But @alisa2030.bsky.social & Federico De Marco argue that local public administrations are becoming the new collaborative arenas for democratic legitimacy.
👉️ bit.ly/4x6ICgP
🤝 Taylan Utku Düzgün argues that Turkish-Russian coordination in #Syria has never reflected a true strategic alliance.
📊 Instead, both sides have developed limited forms of cooperation to contain escalation while pursuing fundamentally incompatible goals.
➡️ bit.ly/4ubf1QD
🗳️ Ultra-right candidate #AbelardoDeLaEspriella won 10.3m votes in the first round of presidential elections in #Colombia.
⚠️ But @jzulver.bsky.social & @priscyll.bsky.social warn that an 'iron fist' security approach carries significant risks for Colombian democracy.
👉 buff.ly/ozG5owB
🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.108
🗳️ Vera Tika argues that Europe’s populist #RadicalRight no longer operates only through parties + elections.
💭 It now shapes the very logic through which democratic systems govern, define threats, manage borders + normalise exclusion.
👉️ bit.ly/4anp7Xt
Now on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social: a summary of my "Democrazia Addio" just out in Italian. The crisis of Western democracy doesn't originate from citizens... but from political systems that can no longer respond to their preferences. And solutions are possible.
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Vera Tika argues that Europe’s populist radical right no longer operates only through parties and elections. Its growing influence lies in its ability to shape migration policy, public discourse, digi...
As states adapt through alternative trade networks, shadow fleets, and new payment systems, Ilan Kapoor reveals how sanctions increasingly impose costs without securing political compliance
Regional organisations are increasingly powerful players on the global stages, accumulating authority that once belonged to sovereign states. However, Anja Jetschke and Samuel Standaert show that as t...
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Populist radical-right parties are forging cross-border ties. Yunus Poblome's research into Conservative Political Action Conferences reveals how inter-and transnational populists have established int...
For decades, Europe prospered under American security guarantees, open trade and cheap external imports. That world is disappearing. Faced with a more antagonistic United States, a rising China and ge...
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' sec...
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When we think of democratic innovation, we usually picture citizens voting. But Annalisa Quaglia and Federico De Marco argue that a quiet transformation is underway elsewhere. Faced with the decline o...
Western democracies' responsiveness machinery has been quietly dismantled. To repair the representative disconnect, says Lorenzo De Sio, we must first understand precisely what is broken
Taylan Düzgün argues that Turkish–Russian coordination in Syria has never reflected a true strategic alliance. Instead, both sides have developed limited forms of cooperation to contain escalation whi...
🎈 #RepresentativeDisconnect No.11
🔨 Western democracies' responsiveness machinery has been quietly dismantled.
⛓️💥 To repair the representative disconnect, says @ldesio.bsky.social, we must first understand precisely what is broken.
👉️ bit.ly/49vAkFg
Western democracies' responsiveness machinery has been quietly dismantled. To repair the representative disconnect, says Lorenzo De Sio, we must first understand precisely what is broken
