Why Starmer Could Not Outflank Reform UK: Immigration, Culture Wars and the Collapse of Labour’s Anti-Populist Strategy
Why did Keir Starmer fail to neutralize Reform UK despite commanding a large parliamentary majority? In this incisive commentary, Dr....
Decolonizing Climate Governance: Why Indigenous Knowledge Remains on the Margins of Global Climate Action
As climate change intensifies, global climate governance increasingly acknowledges the value of Indigenous knowledge while continuing to marginalize Indigenous peoples...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Nakba Day in London: The Fight for the Narrative
In this piece, Dr. João Ferreira Dias examines how the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has increasingly been transformed within Europe into a...
Long Read | Explaining Hungary’s Paradox: Péter Magyar as the Insider Challenger to a Hybrid-Authoritarian System
This commentary examines Hungary’s 2026 political rupture through the paradox of Péter Magyar: a former Fidesz insider now positioned as...