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Interviews

Prof. Magaloni: Democratic Backsliding Is Not Universal; People Still Believe in Democracy, but They Want Better Delivery

June 19, 2026
Interviews

Prof. Lutz: Population Aging Has Changed the Immigration Debate in Switzerland

June 19, 2026
Interviews

Prof. Laruelle: Liberalism Is No Longer the Only Game in Town as It Was for the Past Four Decades

June 18, 2026
Interviews

Thomas de Waal: European Support for Armenia Must Be an Endorsement of Process, Not Personality

June 18, 2026
Commentaries

Data and Drought: A Community Fights Back

June 17, 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
Members of the Reich Citizens' Movement organize a lift at the Lustgarten in the city of Berlin, Germany on November 9, 2019. They deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany. Photo: Juergen Nowak.
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
Flowers and Candles at the Hanau shooting site as a remembrance to the victims of right extremist terror attack in Germany on February 20, 2020.
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
AfD demonstrated with slogan "Stop Islamization" in Rostock on May 14, 2018. AfD, Alternative for Germany, is a right wing political party in Germany.
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
Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders campaigns on behalf of his Freedom Party ahead of municipal elections in Spijkenisse, Netherlands on March 17 2018.
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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Commentaries

Data and Drought: A Community Fights Back

As artificial intelligence drives an unprecedented expansion of data-center infrastructure, questions of climate sustainability, democratic accountability, and technological governance are ...

June 17, 2026
Social Media
Commentaries

The Politics of Attention: Visibility, Legitimacy, and the Transformation of Democratic Competition

As digital platforms increasingly shape how citizens encounter politics, longstanding assumptions about democratic competition are being challenged. In this insightful ...

June 17, 2026
Street scene in Douala, Cameroon’s largest city.
Commentaries

Communaucratic Populism: Rethinking Identity-Based Electoral Mobilization in Postcolonial Africa

The authors introduce communaucratic populism as a novel conceptual framework for understanding a form of political mobilization in which electoral ...

June 12, 2026
Residents flee burning homes in Belfast.
European Observatory

When Integration Falters, Nativism Advances: Europe’s Liberal Dilemma

Dr. João Ferreira Dias argues that the rise of anti-immigrant unrest across Europe reflects not simply tensions over migration, but ...

June 12, 2026
South Africa.
Commentaries

Survival Populism and the Crisis of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa

In this commentary, Dr. Oludele Solaja challenges conventional explanations of xenophobic violence in South Africa by underscoring the concept of ...

June 1, 2026
Fake news.
Commentaries

When Lies Become Political Identity: Populism, Disinformation, and the Emotional Logic of Contemporary Politics

In this commentary, Yacine Boubia examines why political disinformation has become one of the defining challenges of contemporary democratic life. ...

June 1, 2026
Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister arrives to attend in an informal meeting of Heads of State or Government in Prague, Czechia on October 7, 2022. Photo: Alexandros Michailidis.
Commentaries

The End of Inevitability? Hungary and the Future of Far-Right Populism in Central and Eastern Europe

In this commentary, Nikoletta Syvak examines the political and regional implications of Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat after sixteen years in ...

May 28, 2026
Özgür Özel, leader of Turkey’s main opposition CHP and a recent target of political judicial intervention, attends the inauguration of a cultural center named after the late Manisa Metropolitan Mayor Ferdi Zeyrek. Photo: Idil Toffolo / Dreamstime.
Commentaries

Turkey’s Managed Permanence: Lawfare, Institutional Capture, and the End of Democratic Uncertainty

In this timely and deeply analytical essay, Professor Ibrahim Ozturk examines how Turkey is moving beyond competitive authoritarianism toward what ...

May 22, 2026

Interviews

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Professor Beatriz Magaloni.
Interviews

Prof. Magaloni: Democratic Backsliding Is Not Universal; People Still Believe in Democracy, but They Want Better Delivery

Professor Beatriz Magaloni, Graham Stuart Professor of International Relations at Stanford University, argues that contemporary democratic crises cannot be understood ...

June 19, 2026
Professor Georg Lutz.
Interviews

Prof. Lutz: Population Aging Has Changed the Immigration Debate in Switzerland

Switzerland's rejection of the Swiss People's Party's proposal to cap the country's population at ten million has been widely interpreted ...

June 19, 2026
Professor Marlene Laruelle.
Interviews

Prof. Laruelle: Liberalism Is No Longer the Only Game in Town as It Was for the Past Four Decades

Professor Marlene Laruelle argues that the contemporary challenge to liberal democracy extends far beyond electoral populism. In this wide-ranging ECPS ...

June 18, 2026
Thomas de Waal,
Interviews

Thomas de Waal: European Support for Armenia Must Be an Endorsement of Process, Not Personality

In this ECPS interview, Thomas de Waal, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and one of the leading scholars of the ...

June 18, 2026
Richard Giragosian
Interviews

Giragosian: Russia Is Increasingly Seen as Part of the Problem by Armenians Rather Than the Solution

As Armenia navigates the aftermath of war, the loss of Nagorno-Karabakh, and a far-reaching geopolitical realignment, one question looms large: ...

June 17, 2026
Professor Cengiz Aktar.
Interviews

Prof. Aktar: The EU Is Systematically Giving False Hopes to Armenia

In this timely ECPS interview, Professor Cengiz Aktar examines the political, geopolitical, and democratic implications of Armenia’s 2026 parliamentary elections. ...

June 14, 2026
Professor Stephan Haggard.
Interviews

Prof. Haggard: Democratic Institutions Survive Only When Citizens Support Them

Professor Stephan Haggard, one of the world’s leading scholars of democratic backsliding and authoritarianism, argues that the survival of democracy ...

June 14, 2026
Ms. Yamini Aiyar.
Interviews

Yamini Aiyar: Young India Is Growing Increasingly Exhausted with Older Forms of Politics

India’s 2026 state elections have reopened fundamental debates about democracy, federalism, and political representation in the world’s largest democracy. In ...

June 8, 2026
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