🎙️ In the new podcast of our series co-produced with the @JoDemocracy, @edgarsar91 and @pelinamus discuss lessons learned from the elections in Hungary in 2026 and Turkey in 2024. 🇭🇺🇹🇷🗳️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5epa8u2m

🎙️ In the second part of our podcast, Camille Creyghton discusses the thorny concept of crisis of democracy, which, as she argues, is a recurrent phrase and “was already there since the beginning of democracy.“ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4x5f9xtc

✍️A 1986 Polish underground document and a 2012 interview with a peace scholar share an identical title but reached different conclusions. Anna Nakai reads both against and along with the present.🇵🇱🇺🇸 🧑‍💻Read the article in our series with @BlinkenOSA: 👉tinyurl.com/393mwsrb

✍️ After reading the book, the question is no longer how much choice people possess but who made the menu, who can realistically choose from it, and what forms of freedom remain unlisted, Valeriia Shaliakhina writes in this review. 📖🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ys33xj76

🎙️ Scholars often frame the history of democracy as gradual expansion of representative institutions. In our new podcast, Camille Creyghton offers another perspective: democracy emerging from everyday practices of self-government. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3wn9c8zn

🎙️ In this opening episode of our new podcast series on law, rights, and democracy in Latin America, @fsaesilva discusses the increasingly complex role of law in contemporary struggles over democracy and rights. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/57h67pt2

✍️ “Mackay’s captivating recounting of history also proves its relevance as story, as repository for fantasy and knowledge and as a good starting-point for future reinventions,” Medeea Pașca writes in this review. 📖🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2kxa927j

🎙️ In the new podcast of our series co-produced with the @BlinkenOSA, John Bessai discusses what the archives can reveal about the changing nature of international politics during the late Cold War. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/43366u9t

🎙️ In our new podcast, @RonnieYearwood analyzes the persistence of coloniality in Caribbean constitutionalism and asks what a decolonial constitutionalism, able to overcome the past and think the “new,” must look like. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ypjcccyj

✍️ In this op-ed, Jeet Pattanaik argues that India should build on its own strengths of digital infrastructure, borrow from the EU AI Act’s risk-based design, and write a law that holds the state to the same standard as business. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4n9fw3s3

✍️Despite box office success, The Odyssey sparked discussions about essential qualities of cinematic adaptations, particularly in the case of highly regarded works from the Western literary canon, Luca Matasaru writes in his review.📽️🎞️ 🧑‍💻Read it now: 👉tinyurl.com/49csfurm

🎙️In this interview with Ferenc Laczó, @ClausLeggewie & @danycohnbendit discuss their political friendship, the idea of cosmopolitan universalism, new roles the EU need to assume, and how a more optimistic political vision could emerge. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/e4m9hvkd

🎙️ In our new podcast, @kris_fidan discusses how social democratic policies could reclaim the debate on social reproduction and introduces the idea of “progressive pronatalism.” 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mr3x6kap

✍️ Ghulam Hussain offers a groundbreaking analysis of the intersectional structures of caste, class, gender and religion sustaining an architecture of inequality that is officially and publicly denied, Daniel Schnake Venegas writes.📖🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3xh5ejcs

Why was Hungary’s liberal democratic transition of the late 20th century followed by sharp de-democratization, and why has illiberal regime-building crumbled unexpectedly too? 🇭🇺🇭🇺 ✍️ Ferenc Laczo explores these questions in his op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/587u6w6s

🎙️ In our new podcast, Brigitte Le Normand describes and interprets the main phases of migration in Europe since 1945 and discusses what gendered and intersectional perspectives can reveal about labor migration. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yc69pnmh

🎙️ In our new podcast, Yane Svetiev discusses how transnational peer review of financial regulators tries to balance supervisory convergence with the risk of shifting power away from elected officials and toward experts. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2wfr9ndw

✍️ Legal mobilization can halt extractive projects, but it can't curb extractivism itself. @julianajllojllo reviews @sebasmartl's account of how Chilean communities turn to courts, and what that strategy can and cannot deliver. 📚 🧑‍💻 Read it here: 👉 tinyurl.com/yeym38eb