Interviews Dr. Arian: Neither Foreign Powers nor Clerical Elites Represent the Iranian People March 7, 2026 Interviews Assoc. Prof. Huda: Bangladesh’s Democratic Future Depends on How Political Parties Exercise Power March 6, 2026 Commentaries Energy Geopolitics from Hormuz to Lagos: Commodity Shocks and African Vulnerability March 5, 2026 Interviews Samzir Ahmed: Institutionalization Is an Acid Test for Populist Politics in Bangladesh March 6, 2026 Commentaries “Googling” Patterns during 2026 State of the Union Address – Research Note March 5, 2026 Analysis See All Home 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 Analysis 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 Commentaries See all Commentaries 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 Commentaries Pax Americana to Pax Silica: Strategic Shifts in US Security Policy From Pax Americana to Pax Silica, US grand strategy is undergoing a quiet but consequential transformation. In this timely commentary, ... January 29, 2026 Commentaries From the ‘End of History’ to the ‘End of a Fiction’: What Davos 2026 Really Announced Davos 2026 revealed a global order no longer converging on a single liberal model, but sliding into a harsher era ... January 28, 2026 Commentaries From Farce to Tragedy: The First Year of Trump’s Second Term and the Unmaking of America In “From Farce to Tragedy,” the author traces the first year of Donald Trump’s second term as a turning point ... January 24, 2026 Voice of Youth Law, Order and the Lives in Between In this Voice of Youth (VoY) article, Emmanouela Papapavlou delivers a powerful reflection on state violence, immigration enforcement, and the ... January 11, 2026 Commentaries Dopamine Detox, Self-Discipline, and the Populist Moralization of Responsibility This commentary interrogates the rising popularity of “dopamine detox” as a moralized response to digital overload and burnout, situating it ... January 10, 2026 Interviews See All Interviews 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 Interviews 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 Interviews 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 Interviews 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 Interviews 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 Interviews Prof. Bjarnegård: Gender Will Become a Central Fault Line Between Liberal Democracy and Authoritarian Populism In this ECPS interview, Professor Elin Bjarnegård (Uppsala University) argues that gender is no longer a side issue but “a ... February 26, 2026 Interviews Dr. Tsuda: Takaichi’s Ascent to Power Represents Continuity Rather Than a Populist Rupture In an interview with the ECPS, Dr. Taro Tsuda of Meiji University argues that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s landslide victory ... February 20, 2026 Related Terms:Term: ImmigrationTerm: Populism
Energy Geopolitics from Hormuz to Lagos: Commodity Shocks and African Vulnerability