
The short story of Erdogan’s election victory(!)
Erdogan's primary adversary is no longer the opposition, but rather the anticipated deepening of the economic crisis. A climate of ...

Erdogan’s winning authoritarian populist formula and Turkey’s future
After the election results, Erdogan is likely to feel vindicated, but being a vindictive populist, he will not forgive those ...

Gender Populism: Civilizational Populist Construction of Gender Identities as Existential Cultural Threats
DOWNLOAD PDF Yilmaz, Ihsan & Shakil, Kainat. (2023). “Gender Populism: Civilizational Populist Construction of Gender Identities as Existential Cultural Threats.” ...

AKP’s populist framing of Erdogan as the tough, macho, militaristic savior of ‘the people’ against the Western imperialists
To win another term as President in Turkey, incumbent Islamist populist Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been forced into externalizing and ...

The Impact of Civilizational Populism on Foreign and Transnational Policies: The Turkish Case
DOWNLOAD PDF Yilmaz, Ihsan & Morieson, Nicholas. (2023). “The Impact of Civilizational Populism on Foreign and Transnational Policies: The Turkish ...

Contest between leaders of the Ummah: Comparing civilizational populisms of PTI and TLP in Pakistan
DOWNLOAD PDF Batool, Fizza; Yilmaz, Ihsan & Shakil, Kainat. (2023). “Contest between leaders of the Ummah: Comparing civilizational populisms of ...

The Others of Islamist Civilizational Populism in AKP’s Turkey
DOWNLOAD PDF Yilmaz, Ihsan; Shukri, Syaza & Shakil, Kainat. (2023). “The Others of Islamist Civilizational Populism in AKP’s Turkey.” Populism ...

Hindutva civilizational populist BJP’s enforcement of digital authoritarianism in India
DOWNLOAD PDF Yilmaz, Ihsan & Saleem, Raja M. Ali. (2022). “Hindutva civilizational populist BJP’s enforcement of digital authoritarianism in India.” ...

ECPS’ Never Again initiative and COMTOG project
Our collective history offers stories of war, resistance, intolerance, and perseverance. ECPS’ Never Again initiative prompts us to look back ...

COMTOG Report on “The Light in the Darkness”
Tusor, Anita.(2023). “COMTOG Report on ‘The Light in the Darkness’.” Never Again Initiative. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS). April ...

COMTOG Interview with Lukasz Janczuk on ‘My Memory of Us’
Interviewed by Iván Escobar Fernández Lukasz Janczuk is the co-founder and lead designer at Juggler Games and a former Design Manager ...

COMTOG Interview with Dr Angus Mol on ‘Bury Me My Love’
Interviewed by Martin Galland Dr Angus Mol is a Games Studies scholar from Leiden University. 'Bury Me My Love' is ...

COMTOG Interview with Tigs Louis Puttick on ‘Bury Me My Love’
Tigs Louis-Puttick, Communications and Advocacy Coordinator for Samos Volunteers, a non-profit organisation supporting refugees and asylum-seekers on Samos. 'Bury Me ...

COMTOG Interview with Jakub Jablonski on ‘My Memory of Us’
Interviewed by Iván Escobar Fernández Jakub Jablonski is the co-owner and co-founder, art director, and creative director of Juggler Games. 'My Memory ...

COMTOG Report: ‘My Memory of Us’ — Boosting Historical Memory Through Implicit Visual Metaphors
Fernández, Iván Escobar. (2023). “COMTOG Report: ‘My Memory of Us’ — Boosting Historical Memory Through Implicit Visual Metaphors.” Never Again ...

COMTOG Report on ‘Bury Me My Love’
Galland, Martin. (2023). “COMTOG Report on ‘Bury Me My Love’.” Never Again Initiative. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS). April ...

A Lesson from Turkey: Economic Crises as Steppingstones, but not Exit Routes for Authoritarian Populists
It is evident that populist politicians, even if they come to power through free elections, deviate from the same path ...

Presentations at The 2nd Annual Int’l Symposium on ‘Impacts of Global Power Transition on Authoritarian Populism and Multilateralism’
Date: March 30-31, 2023. Welcome Remarks By Cengiz AKTAR (Professor, Senior Researcher at Foreign Policy Program of the ECPS). Opening Speech ...

The Second Annual International Symposium on ‘Impacts of Global Power Transition on Authoritarian Populism and Multilateralism’
Virtual Symposium by The European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Brussels/Belgium March 30-31, 2023 Click here to register! ...

Before the last exit: Chance for Lula to save democracy and market in Brazil
DOWNLOAD PDF Ozturk, Ibrahim. (2023). “Before the last exit: Chance for Lula to save democracy and market in Brazil.” Populism ...

On the Political Economy of Populism: The Decline of the Turkish Economy under Erdoğan’s Populist-Authoritarian Regime
DOWNLOAD PDF Ozturk, Ibrahim. (2022). “On the Political Economy of Populism: The Decline of the Turkish Economy under Erdoğan’s Populist-Authoritarian ...

Are deindustrialization and European integration fostering populism?
Deindustrialization and deeper European integration seem to be two of the several hazardous factors leading to the development of populism ...

Populist attacks on institutions as a reaction to the hyper-globalization
DOWNLOAD PDF Ozturk, Ibrahim. (2021). “Populist attacks on institutions as a reaction to the hyper-globalization.” Populism & Politics. May 21, ...

Populism and the rise of hybrid governance models: Saving the multilateral cooperation
DOWNLOAD PDF Ozturk, Ibrahim. (2021). “Populism and the rise of hybrid governance models: Saving the multilateral cooperation.” Populism & Politics. ...

Climate, conflict, and migration: Europe’s next frontier of populism
The far-right populists are able to predicate on the securitisation of refugees in high welfare economies. Should welfare economies become overwhelmed ...

Will the climate crisis lead to Europe’s next refugee crisis?
The discussion of climate refugees has long been a feature of environmental security studies and predictions about the effects of ...

A pivotal election: Reversing Bolsonaro’s anti-environmental legacy?
The policies of far-right populist leader Jair Bolsonaro, who claimed that environmental protection “suffocates” the economy, have decimated large swaths ...

Unlearning the Anthropocene: Readings for Human Humility
Seeking the ways of keeping the world less cruel, if no less dangerous, in the critical decades ahead, Dr. Heidi ...

Hearts, Trees, Hymns, and Hate: Populist Mixed Messages
The coincidence of far-right and anti-vaccine/mask protest cultures has been common in Germany, often erupting in racist rhetoric, too. In ...

Climate Satire and Anti-science Populism in Don’t Look Up
This commentary reviews the 2021 film Don’t Look Up, an allegory about climate-crisis apathy in an imagined populist future in ...

Eating and Environmental Consciousness
The effects of global warming are no longer part of an abstract, future dystopia or a hard-to-comprehend “hyperobject.” Summer 2021, ...

Grief, Rage, and Courage at COP26
At the end of the conference, the 1.5-degree goal still appears far out of reach. “Beyond that threshold,” scientific consensus ...

COMTOG Report on “The Light in the Darkness”
Tusor, Anita.(2023). “COMTOG Report on ‘The Light in the Darkness’.” Never Again Initiative. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS). April ...

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, ...

Hindutva civilizational populist BJP’s enforcement of digital authoritarianism in India
DOWNLOAD PDF Yilmaz, Ihsan & Saleem, Raja M. Ali. (2022). “Hindutva civilizational populist BJP’s enforcement of digital authoritarianism in India.” ...

Culture wars in a fragmented Brazil, a guide to understanding what happened in Brazilian election
First of November brought Lula’s reelection as President. He won but did not win. The results leave the country in ...

Civilizational populist Netanyahu’s election victory and rise of Religious Zionist Party in Israel
Netanyahu and Likud return to power as Israeli voters usher in perhaps the most right-wing government in the nation’s history. ...

How has Hindutva populism blurred the line between caste and religion in Indian democracy?
Traditionally, caste and religion have been the two most prominent cleavages in India. Before 2014, upper-caste people used to identify ...

Religious populism in Israel: The case of Shas
DOWNLOAD PDF Yilmaz, Ihsan & Morieson, Nicholas. (2022). “Religious populism in Israel: The case of Shas.” Populism & Politics. European Center ...

Hearts, Trees, Hymns, and Hate: Populist Mixed Messages
The coincidence of far-right and anti-vaccine/mask protest cultures has been common in Germany, often erupting in racist rhetoric, too. In ...

Gender Populism: Civilizational Populist Construction of Gender Identities as Existential Cultural Threats
DOWNLOAD PDF Yilmaz, Ihsan & Shakil, Kainat. (2023). “Gender Populism: Civilizational Populist Construction of Gender Identities as Existential Cultural Threats.” ...

ECPS COMTOG Project – Interview with Moyra Turkington on gaming and women fighting on the front lines of history
Historical game studies is a young, slowly expanding interdisciplinary field which must address the challenges of designing games about the ...

Mahsa Amini: Women’s bodily autonomy in the context of Islamism and far-right populism
Both Islamism and far-right populism claim power and control over women’s bodies by imposing rules around the hijab. In Iran, ...

Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism – The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century
Girdap, Hafza. (2022). “Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism – The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century.” ECPS Book Reviews. ...

Right-wing populism, political Islam, and the Istanbul Convention
In the environment of rising right-wing populism, women in Turkey and across Europe are worried about losing their hard-earned legal ...

How and why do we need preventive justice?
The saying often goes that history repeats itself. However, this is not entirely accurate. It’s people who repeat history. Not ...

Hindutva civilizational populist BJP’s enforcement of digital authoritarianism in India
DOWNLOAD PDF Yilmaz, Ihsan & Saleem, Raja M. Ali. (2022). “Hindutva civilizational populist BJP’s enforcement of digital authoritarianism in India.” ...

Mahsa Amini: Women’s bodily autonomy in the context of Islamism and far-right populism
Both Islamism and far-right populism claim power and control over women’s bodies by imposing rules around the hijab. In Iran, ...

Populism reigns supreme in Turkey, what next for European Union?
While a new term for Erdogan will bring more challenges, Turkey will remain a crucial interlocutor for the EU on ...

Prof. Bertjan Verbeek: Populist foreign policy weakens soft power
Discussing the impact of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) on the country’s foreign policy, Professor Verbeek highlighted his observation ...

COMTOG Report on ‘Bury Me My Love’
Galland, Martin. (2023). “COMTOG Report on ‘Bury Me My Love’.” Never Again Initiative. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS). April ...

COMTOG Interview with Florent Maurin on ‘Bury Me My Love’
Interviewed by Martin Galland Developed by The Pixel Hunt in 2015, Bury Me My Love is a branching text-based narrative based around the ...

Migration diet of populism versus migrant attraction in Finland
Populist movements and parties have been successful in gaining support by tapping into people’s emotions, fears, and grievances, and by ...

Climate, conflict, and migration: Europe’s next frontier of populism
The far-right populists are able to predicate on the securitisation of refugees in high welfare economies. Should welfare economies become overwhelmed ...

Will the climate crisis lead to Europe’s next refugee crisis?
The discussion of climate refugees has long been a feature of environmental security studies and predictions about the effects of ...

Youth Populism and the Aesthetics of Dread in Je suis Karl
Right-wing populism does not need staged violence to attract new recruits. Online rabbit-holes and the “smart branding” of a new ...

Ethnographic Reflexivity: Why listening to individuals matters in an age of populistic cacophony
Populism and migration studies should be a vital voice to people and should include individual narratives and multi-perspectival methodologies into ...

The populist zeitgeist in Turkey: A Cornelian dilemma ahead
Increasingly, Turkey is experiencing a deep wave of xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment because of a rapid increase in refugee numbers ...

ECPS Academy Summer School — Populism, War and Crises: How populism interacts with crises during wartime? (July 3-7, 2023)
Are you passionate about global politics and understanding the dynamics that shape it? Are you looking for a way to ...

How and why do we need preventive justice?
The saying often goes that history repeats itself. However, this is not entirely accurate. It’s people who repeat history. Not ...

ECPS Academy – Summer School 2022: “Populism in Europe: Surveying the Populist Moment” by Dr Paul Taggart
The lecture covers the nature of populism in contemporary Europe and put this into context with an overview of the ...

ECPS Academy – Summer School 2022: “Populism and Gender: Gender Identity in Populist Discourse” by Dr Haley McEwen
This session examines the emergence of ‘anti-gender’, or ‘pro-family’ ideology and transnational countermovement building against sexuality and gender related rights. ...

ECPS Academy – Summer School 2022: “The Populist Hype and the Mainstreaming of the Far-Right” by Dr Aurelien Mondon
This lecture provides an overview of critical approaches to populism studies. In particular, it focuses on concepts such as anti-populism ...

ECPS Academy – Summer School 2022: “Populism and Economic Performance: Implications on Institutions and Good Governance” by Dr Ibrahim Ozturk
This short seminar aims to introduce the concept of populism in economics in terms of its causes (i.e., globalization, income ...

ECPS Academy – Summer School 2022: “Russia’s populist discourse and its Invasion of Ukraine: Challenges for the EU” by Dr Neil Robinson
This lecture examines how populism developed from within the Russian political system under Vladimir Putin. Official populism was a response ...

ECPS Academy – Summer School 2022: “Far Right Populism in Europe: Takeaways From the French Presidential Elections” by Dr Gilles Ivaldi
This lecture looks at far right populist politics in the French presidential and legislative elections in 2022. It discusses the ...
A Lesson from Turkey: Economic Crises as Steppingstones, but not Exit Routes for Authoritarian Populists