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Algorithmic Populism and the Politics of Waste: How AI Reproduces Plastic Colonialism in the Global South

March 18, 2026

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Prof. Joshi: Depoliticizing Courts, Bureaucracy, and Police Is Essential to Stabilizing Nepal’s Democratic Renewal

March 18, 2026

Commentaries

Climate Populism in the Global South: Environmental Crisis and the Politics of Economic Discontent

March 16, 2026

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Power Transition in the Middle East: The Intersection of US Global Rivalries and Israel’s Regional Ambitions

March 15, 2026

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Prof. Klein: Political Transformation in Iran May Come, but Not in the Way the West Expects

March 18, 2026

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Irina von Wiese replaces Sir Watson as the honorary president of ECPS

Former MEP Irina von Wiese replaces Sir Graham Watson as the honorary president of ECPS. Sir Watson is stepping down ...

March 6, 2025

Analysis

What does Patriotic Union’s coup plan in Germany tell us about threats posed by far-right?

As the investigations are ongoing, not much is known of the real threat to democracy that this group posed. Nevertheless, ...

March 16, 2025

Analysis

Extremist criminal offenses rise in Germany, intelligence report suggests

Right-wing extremism increased in Germany in 2019, the country’s domestic intelligence agency has reported, with over 32,000 extremists identified. The report ...

March 16, 2025

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Germany’s far-right AfD fires official over a ​racist migrant comment

Germany’s populist far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party fired an official on September 28, 2020 who had been caught on a hidden camera ...

March 16, 2025

Analysis

Dutch appeals court clears far-right leader Wilders of inciting hatred

Dutch politician Geert Wilders was acquitted by an appeals court on September 4, 2020 of discrimination, in a partial legal victory for ...

March 16, 2025

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Algorithmic Populism and the Politics of Waste: How AI Reproduces Plastic Colonialism in the Global South

In this incisive analysis, Dr. Oludele Solaja interrogates how AI-driven waste governance reproduces global inequalities under the guise of efficiency. ...

March 18, 2026

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Climate Populism in the Global South: Environmental Crisis and the Politics of Economic Discontent

Environmental crises are increasingly reshaping political conflict across the Global South. In this ECPS commentary, Dr. Oludele Solaja examines the ...

March 16, 2026

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Power Transition in the Middle East: The Intersection of US Global Rivalries and Israel’s Regional Ambitions

In this long ECPS commentary, Professor Ibrahim Ozturk examines the 2026 US–Israeli strikes on Iran as part of a broader ...

March 15, 2026

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Plastic Colonialism and the Politics of Waste: Toward a Theory of Waste Sovereignty in the Global South

Plastic waste has become one of the defining environmental crises of the twenty-first century—but its politics extend far beyond questions ...

March 13, 2026

Commentaries

War Beyond the Battlefield: Environmental and Human Security in Iran

In this commentary, Dr. Oludele Solaja examines the often-overlooked ecological consequences of modern warfare. Moving beyond traditional analyses focused on ...

March 9, 2026

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Energy Geopolitics from Hormuz to Lagos: Commodity Shocks and African Vulnerability

In this analysis, Dr. Oludele Solaja examines how geopolitical tensions around the strategic oil chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz ...

March 5, 2026

Commentaries

“Googling” Patterns during 2026 State of the Union Address – Research Note

This research note introduces high frequency “real-time” Google Trends data as a novel tool for studying public engagement with major ...

March 5, 2026

Commentaries

Climate Security from Below: Community Environmental Action and Democratic Gaps in Coastal Nigeria

Along Nigeria’s vulnerable coastline, climate change is not a projection but a daily struggle shaping survival, governance, and democracy. In ...

March 2, 2026

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Prof. Joshi: Depoliticizing Courts, Bureaucracy, and Police Is Essential to Stabilizing Nepal’s Democratic Renewal

Professor Madhav Joshi argues that Nepal’s recent political upheaval reflects both “anti-elite” mobilization and “a form of generational democratic renewal,” ...

March 18, 2026

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Prof. Klein: Political Transformation in Iran May Come, but Not in the Way the West Expects

Professor Peter W. Klein offers a historically grounded warning against simplistic regime-change narratives in Iran. In this ECPS interview, the ...

March 18, 2026

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Dr. Arian: Neither Foreign Powers nor Clerical Elites Represent the Iranian People

In this interview with the ECPS, Dr. Amir Ahmadi Arian offers a penetrating account of Iran at a moment of ...

March 7, 2026

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Assoc. Prof. Huda: Bangladesh’s Democratic Future Depends on How Political Parties Exercise Power

In this interview with the ECPS, Associate Professor Kazi A. S. M. Nurul Huda offers a nuanced assessment of Bangladesh’s ...

March 6, 2026

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Samzir Ahmed: Institutionalization Is an Acid Test for Populist Politics in Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s 2026 election—the first since the 2024 uprising that toppled Sheikh Hasina—has been widely framed as a democratic turning point. ...

March 6, 2026

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Prof. Kopstein: Trumpism, Better Understood in Patrimonial Terms, Treats the State as a Family Business

Professor Jeffrey Kopstein argues that Trumpism is best analyzed not primarily as populism, but as patrimonial rule—where “the state itself ...

March 4, 2026

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Dr. Shahriari: Without Western Recognition, Rojava Lacks Leverage to Secure a Lasting Power-Sharing Deal with Damascus

In this ECPS interview, Dr. Soheila Shahriari offers a theoretically grounded diagnosis of Rojava’s most precarious post-ISIS moment. She argues ...

March 3, 2026

Interviews

Prof. Hathaway: A Moment of Peril—and Possibility—to Reimagine the International Legal Order

Giving an interview to the ECPS, Professor Oona A. Hathaway reflects on the resilience and fragility of the post-1945 international ...

March 1, 2026

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