De-risking promises less strategic vulnerability without closing markets. Is it redefining globalization rather than ending it? politicsrights.com/fr/is-de-ris... #Globalization #DeRisking #PoliticsAndRightsReview

La « réduction des risques » redéfinit-elle la mondialisation au lieu d’y mettre fin ?

The rise of economic “de-risking” signals a strategic recalibration of globalization, reshaping trade, industrial policy, and geopolitical alignment.

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Opposition to AI is moving from technical debate to mass politics. Data centers, energy costs and weak accountability make AI governance a question of democratic legitimacy and a possible new axis of electoral conflict. #AI #Democracy #PoliticsAndRightsReview politicsrights.com/ai-backlash-...

Is the AI Backlash Becoming a New Democratic Movement?

Public opposition to artificial intelligence is evolving. What does the emerging AI backlash mean for democracy and technology governance?

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What if polarization is fueled by what people avoid saying? Professor Amy McDowell draws on ethnography of a Southern Baptist church to show how polite "small talk" masks inequality and shifts communities rightward. Open access in English, French, and Spanish. politicsrights.com/political-po...

The Political Power of Small Talk in Evangelical Churches

Evangelical churches use small talk to enforce conformity, silence dissent on race and gender, pushing congregations toward the political right.

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Professor Cheryl Thompson discusses her new book, Staging Blackface in Canada (WLU Press, 2026), on blackface in vaudeville and how Canadian coverage of US lynchings kept anti-Blackness out of national discourse. Open access in EN, FR, ES. @drcherylt.bsky.social politicsrights.com/black-perfor...

Black Performance Under Empire and Anti-Blackness

A historian traces how blackface vaudeville and lynching coverage in Canadian newspapers, 1898–1919, exposed anti-Black sentiment.

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Nvidia's chips power the world's AI boom, yet the company depends entirely on a single Taiwanese factory. Neither Washington nor Beijing fully controls the minerals, export controls, or the coming shift to synthetic biology that could upend it all. politicsrights.com/ai-chip-war-... #TSMC #Nvidia

The AI Chip War: Nvidia, China, and Semiconductor Power

Nvidia depends on a single Taiwanese factory, and neither Washington nor Beijing fully controls it: the real stakes of the AI chip war.

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National security powers, once exceptional, are now routine, covering cyber, health, and economic policy. This piece asks whether democratic oversight has kept pace with executive power, or whether emergency tools have become permanent. Open access in EN/FR/ES: politicsrights.com/national-sec...

Is the “National Security State” Expanding Beyond Democratic Control?

The expansion of the national security state raises urgent questions about democratic oversight and constitutional limits.

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Dr. Crockford's new book traces how Christian ideas of nature and apocalypse still shape denial, delay, and despair in the US and Northern Europe. Read her article in English, French, or Spanish at Politics and Rights Review. @suscrockford.bsky.social politicsrights.com/worlds-end-a...

What Happens When Worlds End: A Perturbed System

Climate change is a spiritual crisis shaped by centuries of Christian theology — and a case for how we might live when worlds end.

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The AI backlash is becoming electoral politics. Data center fights, rising utility bills and a new federal task force challenging state AI laws are colliding ahead of the 2026 midterms. Our latest piece traces how this fault line formed and where it may be heading. politicsrights.com/how-ai-backl...

How AI Backlash Became Electoral Politics

AI backlash: data center protests and rising public anxiety are reshaping U.S. elections, pitting state regulation against federal preemption.

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Is Europe rearming for a crisis, or rebuilding itself as a security-first union? Defense spending is structural now, reshaping fiscal rules, industrial policy, and the balance between executive power and democratic oversight. Open access: EN/FR/ES. politicsrights.com/is-europe-pr...

Is Europe Preparing for a Permanent War Economy?

As EU leaders expand defense budgets and loosen fiscal constraints, is Europe entering a structural war economy?

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For thirty years, insulating monetary policy from elections was the point. Now that central banks shape housing costs, debt sustainability, and financial stability, unelected authority over those outcomes is harder to justify. politicsrights.com/independent-... #DemocraticLegitimacy #Governance

Are Independent Central Banks Losing Democratic Legitimacy?

Rising political pressure on central banks is raising new questions about democratic legitimacy

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Why do people share news stories they don't even believe are accurate? Prof. Christian Miller (@charactergap.bsky.social) traces the honesty crisis behind fake news, AI cheating, and more in his new book The Honesty Crisis. Read his article in English, French, or Spanish:

The Honesty Crises We Are Confronting Today

Honesty is eroding in many areas of society today. Indeed, it is not mere rhetorical flourish to say that we are facing a number of honesty crises.

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In Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (2025), Professors Beaman, Cragun, and Ezzy identify a substantive nonreligious dimension expressed through concrete practices of care, justice, and relational engagement. politicsrights.com/community-ga...

Community Gardens and the Substantive Turn in Nonreligion

Community gardens illuminate the rise of nonreligion through lifestance, reframing ethics, community, and human–nature relations.

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The Cuban dictatorship is entering one of the most fragile moments in decades. Internal collapse now converges with U.S. pressure, conditional talks, and the loss of external support, pushing the regime into uncharted territory. #Cuba #Dictatorship politicsrights.com/is-the-cuban...

Is the Cuban Dictatorship Coming to an End?

The Cuban dictatorship faces energy collapse and shrinking external support. Is the regime approaching a decisive breaking point?

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Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd presents her new book Heaven Has a Wall, a powerful reflection on how U.S. borders entangle religion, law, and power. #borderpolitics #religionandpolitics @bethhurd.bsky.social

On the Religious Politics of American Borders

A critical analysis of the US–Mexico border as a space shaped by art, control, commerce, and political paradox.

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Prof. Baris Cayli Messina examines Europe’s growing awareness of its strategic isolation. An incisive contribution to current debates on sovereignty, alliance politics, and the future of democratic values in Europe. @bariscaylimessina.com

The Christmas Verdict: Europe Alone

A Christmas reflection on Europe’s growing isolation as power eclipses law, alliances turn transactional, and the continent confronts the future.

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Professor Jennifer A. Selby presents Secular Sensibilities, a critical ethnography of how secular regimes in France and Québec shape bodies, emotions, and belonging through the surveillance of racialized couples. politicsrights.com/secular-sens... @jselby.bsky.social #Secularism #Ethnography.

Secular Sensibilities amidst French and Québécois Politics

Political leaders have stressed the importance of buttressing “secularism,” framed as a separation of undesirable religion from a public sphere.

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Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, Heather McGhee’s The Sum of Us exposes how racism impoverishes everyone and how solidarity can rebuild shared prosperity. #Inequality #SocialJustice #HumanRights #Democracy #PoliticsAndRightsReview politicsrights.com/what-racism-...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping economies, law, and human attention. Yet our moral frameworks struggle to keep pace. Politics and Rights Review presents five essential books that confront this ethical deficit and rethink ethics for the algorithmic age. politicsrights.com/5-books-arti...

5 Must-Read Books on Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

What once seemed like neutral innovation has become a transformative force in finance, culture, and law. Yet the moral frameworks...

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In this opinion article, John Suarez, Executive Director of the Center for a Free Cuba, revisits the legacy of Assata Shakur, focusing on her silence about Cuba’s repression of Black citizens during her decades of exile. Avail. in EN/FR/ES politicsrights.com/assata-shaku... @johnjsuarez.bsky.social

Assata Shakur: Violence in the U.S., Silence on Cuba’s Racism

Assata Shakur died in Cuba after decades as a fugitive. Her violent legacy, silence on repression, and political reverberations remain.

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In her powerful new piece Against Innovation, @jennydenbow.bsky.social interrogates how uncritical celebrations of technological progress obscure vital political, economic, and social questions. Available in open access in English, French, and Spanish. politicsrights.com/against-inno...

Against Innovation - Politics and Rights Review

A critical look at innovation’s dark side: how it hides inequality, erases care work, and masks political issues behind tech progress.

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Prof. Peter Mandaville analyzes how states use religion as soft power in global politics. A key resource on religion’s strategic role in foreign policy. Available in open access in English, French, and Spanish. politicsrights.com/the-religiou... #religionandpolitics #politicsandrightsreview

The Religious Turn in Great Power Politics

Explore how states use religious soft power to shape identity and compete for influence in world politics.

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Prof. Michael Davis draws alarming parallels between democratic backsliding in the U.S. and Beijing’s authoritarian crackdown in Hong Kong, warning that the erosion of judicial independence and civil liberties signals a dangerous shift toward authoritarianism.

Is the US Using Beijing’s Authoritarian Playbook?

Beijing’s authoritarian playbook offers a chilling parallel to developments in the U.S., challenging the resilience of liberal democracy.

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Prof. Amy Adamczyk (CUNY) explores why abortion views differ across countries. Using global data, she shows how democracy, media freedom, and gender equality shape public opinion. A sharp, timely study. @amyadamczyk.bsky.social politicsrights.com/how-democrac... #reproductiverights

How Democracy, Media and Gender Equality Shape Abortion Views

Explores how democracy, media freedom, and gender equality shape abortion attitudes across countries through cultural, political, and social lenses.

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Prof. Keisha N. Blain presents her book Without Fear, showing how Black women in the U.S. redefined human rights as a lived practice of resistance and solidarity. Available in open access in English, French, and Spanish. politicsrights.com/black-women-... #BlackFeminism #SocialJustice #Race

Black Women and the Making of Human Rights

Explore the role of Black women in shaping human rights, turning a distant ideal into a global practice rooted in resistance, solidarity, and justice.

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Prof. Ernesto Castañeda analyzes the mass anti-deportation protests in L.A. sparked by ICE raids. His article shows how citizens and immigrants united in defense of democracy and human rights. @drernestocast.bsky.social @theimmigrationlab.bsky.social

Understanding the Anti-Deportation Protests in Los Angeles

Analysis of anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles, focusing on immigrant rights, public resistance, and threats to democratic values.

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Project 2025 is not about governance, but about redesigning the U.S. state through authoritarian logic. This briefing shows how civil rights and institutional neutrality are reframed as obstacles to be removed in favor of centralized, ideologically driven control.

Project 2025: Authoritarian Agenda Disguised as Reform

Project 2025 seeks to remake the U.S. state by centralizing executive power, purging civil institutions, and enforcing a singular ideological order.

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Prof. Jekaterina Nikitina shows how human rights are not only protected by law, but also shaped by the language, translation, and genres that make law possible. politicsrights.com/human-rights... #humanrights #ECtHR #politicsandrightsreview

Human Rights Discourse: Language, Translation and Genre

Human rights discourse in supranational courts: how language, translation, and genre shape justice across ECtHR, IACtHR, and ACtHPR decisions.

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Prof. Melissa B. Jacoby argues that the U.S. bankruptcy system doesn’t just reflect inequality—it reinforces it. In Unjust Debts, she shows how bankruptcy law privileges corporations over people. politicsrights.com/making-ameri... #bankruptcy @mbjacoby.bsky.social‬ #politicsandrightsreview

Making Americans Bankrupt Again?

How U.S. bankruptcy law deepens inequality—Melissa Jacoby’s Unjust Debts exposes a system that punishes the vulnerable and protects the powerful.

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Prof. Marlene Laruelle argues that illiberalism—not populism—offers a sharper lens to grasp the reordering of today’s political imaginaries. #illiberalism #democracy #politicaltheory #politicsandrightsreview

Why Illiberalism Explains Changes in Today’s Social Order

Scholarship on populism has dominated the last two decades but is now retreating in the face of a new concept : that of illiberalism.

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Prof. Michael Albertus shows how land access continues to shape power, inequality, and political paths. His book Land Power is a must-read on today’s struggles over land, housing, and rights. The article is available in EN, FR & ES politicsrights.com/land-remains... @mikealbertus.bsky.social‬

Land Remains the World’s Engine of Social Change

Land power shapes societal fate. Albertus shows how who owns land still drives inequality, politics, and global change in the 21st century.

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