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Peace with the Kurds in Turkey: What about It?

December 10, 2025

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Prof. Bale: Nigel Farage Is a Marmite Politician — Loved by His Base, Toxic to Many Others

December 10, 2025

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Why Europe, Not China or Russia, Is the Civilisational Problem in Trump’s NSS

December 8, 2025

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Prof. Wright: The Most Troubling Aspect of Trump 2.0 Is the Personalization of the Security Forces

December 6, 2025

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Professor Stokes: Democracy Will Survive and Can Return More Robust

December 6, 2025

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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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Peace with the Kurds in Turkey: What about It?

In this incisive analysis, political scientist Professor Cengiz Aktar examines Ankara’s latest initiative toward the Kurds, arguing that what has ...

December 10, 2025

Commentaries

Why Europe, Not China or Russia, Is the Civilisational Problem in Trump’s NSS

Trump’s National Security Strategy marks a sharp break from post-Cold War US diplomacy: it portrays Europe, not rival powers, as ...

December 8, 2025

Commentaries

Trump’s New Heavy Hand Strategy in Latin America

In this sharp geopolitical analysis, Dr. Imdat Oner examines the far-reaching implications of Operation Southern Spear, the Trump administration’s unprecedented ...

November 25, 2025

Voice of Youth

November 25: The Normalization of Violence and the Forgetting That Keeps It Alive

In this compelling VoY essay, Emmanouela Papapavlou confronts the uncomfortable truth behind society’s yearly cycle of remembrance on November 25th. ...

November 25, 2025

Voice of Youth

How European Populists Turn Farmers’ Anger into Political Power

In this ECPS Voices of Youth contribution, Kader Gueye examines how European populist movements are transforming genuine agrarian grievances into ...

November 25, 2025

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COP30: The Spaceship Is on Fire

In her sharp analysis of the COP30 summit, Dr. Heidi Hart, an environmental humanities researcher and guest instructor at Linnaeus University ...

November 24, 2025

Voice of Youth

November 17th: The Rise of the Far-Right as a ‘Youth Trend’

In this powerful reflection for ECPS – Voice of Youth, high school student Emmanouela Papapavlou warns that the rise of ...

November 18, 2025

Commentaries

Can Mamdani’s Municipal Socialism Counter Democratic Backsliding?

In a period of deepening global democratic recession Zohran Mamdani’s ascent as mayor of New York City poses an important ...

November 11, 2025

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Prof. Bale: Nigel Farage Is a Marmite Politician — Loved by His Base, Toxic to Many Others

In this in-depth interview for ECPS, Professor Tim Bale offers a sharp assessment of Reform UK’s rise and Nigel Farage’s ...

December 10, 2025

Interviews

Prof. Wright: The Most Troubling Aspect of Trump 2.0 Is the Personalization of the Security Forces

In an interview with the ECPS, Professor Joseph Wright (Penn State University) warns that the most alarming development of “Trump ...

December 6, 2025

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Professor Stokes: Democracy Will Survive and Can Return More Robust

In her interview with ECPS, Professor Susan Stokes explains how rising inequality and polarization create fertile ground for democratic backsliding. ...

December 6, 2025

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Asst. Prof. Zanotti: Presidential Systems Ease Populists’ Rise to Power in Latin America

In an interview with ECPS, Dr. Lisa Zanotti—Assistant Professor at Diego Portales University and researcher at COES and Ultra-Lab—offers a ...

November 27, 2025

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Assoc. Prof. Larrabure: A New Right-Wing Alliance Is Emerging in Latin America—and Democracy Will Take a Toll

Chile’s November 16, 2025 presidential vote has produced an unprecedented runoff between José Antonio Kast and Jeannette Jara, crystallizing what ...

November 28, 2025

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Professor Youngs: We Are in an Interregnum Between the Liberal Global Order and Whatever Comes Next

In his interview with ECPS, Professor Richard Youngs (Carnegie Europe; University of Warwick) offers a sharp assessment of today’s democratic ...

November 27, 2025

Interviews

Professor Sullivan: The Separation of Powers in the US Does Not Function as the Framers Anticipated

In a penetrating interview with ECPS, Professor Barry Sullivan warns that “the separation of powers does not function as the ...

November 22, 2025

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Professor Navia: Chileans Vote For Radicals, but Expect Moderate Governance

In an interview with the ECPS, Professor Patricio Navia underscores a defining paradox of Chile’s 2025 election: “Chileans ended up ...

November 22, 2025