Review of Democracy

🎙️ In our new podcast, Nils-Christian Bormann introduces the @ERC_Research-funded DANGER project, which examines how European democracies responded to political violence, economic crisis, and rising extremism in the interwar period. 🔍 🎧 Listen now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5e9nkha4

✍️ It is “a well-informed and reader-friendly piece that offers tools for navigating a disorderly landscape,” Jonathan Bergman writes in his review of Finnish President @alexstubb's book. 📖🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5svuhtme

📚 Here comes the list of five book recommendations by our editor Konstantin Kipp from 2025 and 2026, related to the rule of law. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ Read the list here: 👉 tinyurl.com/4sfkjnru

🎙️ In our new podcast, produced in cooperation with @JoDemocracy, Luciano Da Ros and @Manoel_Gehrke examine how courts can confront authoritarian behavior by elected leaders and why judicial action sometimes succeeds. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/48k3vrkm

✍️ Contemporary politics in South Asia involves historically complex questions of citizenship, loyalty, and state power, @IlyasChattha writes. 🧑‍💻 Read his article now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5fuwhcwe

✍️ Norman Joshua argues that a “military-juridical nexus” between civilian jurists and army officers in the 50s built the legal foundations of authoritarianism in Indonesia, which still shapes the country’s civil-military relations.🇮🇩🇮🇩 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3w6rpbvh

✍️ “What’s the appropriate punishment for ISIS brides who didn’t commit any violent crimes?,” Ishita Prasher asks in her review of @Nussaibah's “Fundamentally.” 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2e5usayc

🎙️ In our new podcast, Minxin Pei argues that China’s post-Mao reforms produced a resilient, adaptive form of authoritarianism, reinforcing centralized authority, fostering corruption, and sidelining reformist actors. 🇨🇳🇨🇳 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3hzytua9

🎙️ In our new podcast, Kateryna Dysa discusses and reconstructs the history of witchcraft in Ukraine, with a particular focus on Podolia, Ruthenia, and Volhynia. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2fnxeb2e

✍️ It is an important contribution to understanding how institutions reproduce racial inequality in less visible forms, Valeriia Shaliakhina writes in her review of Aaron Kupchik’s book. 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2ub6eca7

✍️ In the first essay of our new series, Gde Dwitya Arief Metera and Iqra Anugrah open an expanded discussion on the legacy of the New Order regime in Indonesia (1966-1998). 🇮🇩🇮🇩 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yc5ad75t

🎙️ In our new podcast produced in collaboration with the @JoDemocracy, @EricaChenoweth and Matthew Cebul discuss the political profile of Gen-Z protesters and what ignited their recent protests across the globe. ✊🪧 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ypefjnjx

🔜 Join us on Tuesday for this discussion! 🇳🇵🇳🇵🗳️ 🗓️ Mar 3, 2:15pm CET | 7pm NPT | 6:45pm IST 🔴📽️ Online on YouTube 🗣️ @pranaya_rana 🗣️ Nabin Giri 🗣️ Ishika Panta 🗣️ Sumikshya Khadka 🗣️ Anubha Anushree Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/5hcjrc79

✍️ Donald Trump’s 2nd term exposes how the structural logic of populism breaks down under its own expansion. What once relied on a moral divide now operates through thinning legitimacy and permanent confrontation, @EbruEceOzbey argues. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4nw23536

🎙️ In our new interview, Martti Koskenniemi challenges claims about the “death” of international law and suggests alternative readings of the current situation. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y6anuk3j

✍️📚🔖 The book’s approachable nature turns it into an essential read for anyone interested in the rise of far-right populism and its complex and often contradictory history, Luca Matasaru writes in his review of Quinn Slobodian’s book. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4r8hd98z

🎙️In our new podcast, @shukyingchan discusses her book, which develops an account of postcolonial global justice as social equality by thinking with anticolonial leaders Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah and Jawaharlal Nehru. 🎧Listen to it now: 👉tinyurl.com/wx4dmdjd

✍️ In his op-ed, Nicholas Reed Langen analyzes the roots of the Labour Party’s current malaise and explores prospects for change to prevent a further ascent of the far right. 🇬🇧🇬🇧 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yhuu2hpf

✍️📖🔖 More than anything else, the book awakens the reader’s wondering, Medeea Pasca writes in her review. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/43heamd9

🎙️Our new series examines how societies, when confronted with rupture, authorize exclusion and violence based on (ir)rationalism. In the first podcast, John Blair traces how reports of revenants and vampires spread across regions.🧛 🎧Listen to it now: 👉tinyurl.com/yc5zawjs