💡 How do leading scholars reflect on contemporary democracies and the prospects of a more democratic future? This new volume, our first print publication, offers a selection of conversations that probe this overarching question. 📚📚 Learn more: 👉 tinyurl.com/4m5v66by

🎙️ In our new podcast, Mark Leonard (@ecfr.eu) discusses the conclusions he has drawn concerning “the four Cs:” capital, climate, chips, civilizations and talks about what a new, more holistic approach to European security might prioritize. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3makzyx3

🎙️ In our new podcast, István Rév discusses the vision behind the @archivum.org, and also reflects on how it defended democratic culture by opening to researchers, students, artists, and the wider public. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4fsczuby

🎙️ In our latest podcast, @durba.bsky.social discusses the emergence of women's internationalism as both a political project and a mode of knowledge production that grew out of the crisis of developmental nationalism in the 1970s. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3my66d3k

✍️ Mattei has written the book we needed for the diagnosis. What she has not written is the book that specifies when de-insulating the economy emancipates and when it merely re-houses domination under a new landlord, Kristof Szombati writes. 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read the review now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3e2ee7fu

🎙️ In our new podcast, Attila Melegh examines the transformation of demography into “a science of population management,” and invites us to rethink the economic institutions that have made migration the central political question of our time. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdzjyzu6

🎙️ The second part of the podcast with Kieran Burns, Ayoko Mensah, @drnatermann.bsky.social, Aline Sierp, and Ferenc Laczo considers what a thorough rethinking in the light of colonial history of how to be European today would imply. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/5ds9eyhj

✍️ In this op-ed, Bipin Sebastian questions the tenability of majority rule through elections based on universal adult franchise and ‘one vote, one value’ as a universal procedural blueprint for democracies in the face of ethno-religious majoritarianism. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4bkxp5n7

✍️ It “manages to find the perfect balance between ethical responsibility, historical accuracy, and literary merit,” Luca Matasaru writes in his review of @leaypi.bsky.social’s book. 📖🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2nthuthn

🎙️ In our new podcast, Päivi Leino-Sandberg critically analyzes the recent application of the doctrine of living constitutionalism by EU institutions. 🇪🇺🧑‍⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/45and882

🎙️ In our new podcast, Kieran Burns, Ayoko Mensah, @drnatermann.bsky.social, Aline Sierp, and Ferenc Laczo explore some of the most thought-provoking parts of the “Postcolonial?” exhibition of the House of European History. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/57untd6f

✍️ It exposes the interior struggles of an immigrant family and shows how democracy risks to turn into a contest over prevailing values, Raluca Pop writes about this year’s Palme d’Or-winning film. 🎦🎦 🧑‍💻 Read the review now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2zez848d

✍️ It invites future researchers to pursue more context-sensitive analyses when identifying the causal drivers of judicial decision-making, Juliana Jaramillo writes in her review of Jordi Díez’s book. 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4xckrbyx

🎙️ In the new episode of our series produced in collaboration with @archivum.org, Bethan Winter shares the fascinating story from 1978, when philosophers traveled to Czechoslovakia to teach philosophy. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/sycf4p9j

✍️ In his op-ed, Max Steuer explains current threats to the rule of law in Slovakia and analyzes what a pro-democratic response must entail. 🇸🇰🇸🇰 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/25kk2ctm

✍️ By decisively challenging the Enlightenment studies paradigm entrenched in Western historiography, Clark effectively questions the viability of this current vision of this field in global historical scholarship, Mariia Dotsenko writes in her review. 📚🔖 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3mmhzmrx

✍️ For decades, scholars have assumed a positive relationship between welfare generosity and the level of democracy. In this essay, Kutup Aytekin challenges this consensus by exploring the rise of authoritarian welfarism. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/56fdw4fa

🆕 Challenging Archives is our new podcast series co-produced with the @archivum.org, featuring the Visegrad Fellows. 🎙️ In the first episode, Eszter Szabó-Reznek discusses Hungarian-language theater in socialist Romania. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/muymswkb

✍️ The El-Hishri case, now before the ICC, marks an important milestone in accountability for crimes against humanity committed in Libya. Yet the Court still falls short of delivering full accountability, Omer Shatz (@front-lex.bsky.social) argues in his op-ed. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉tinyurl.com/5x9vuwnz

🎙️ Ancient Greece and Rome are often celebrated as the foundations of democracy. But how have they also been used to legitimize exclusionary politics? @curtisdozier.bsky.social joins #RevDemPodcast to discuss the political afterlives of classical antiquity. 🧑‍💻 Listen here: 👉 tinyurl.com/5n9atzxu

✍️ What happens to democracy when truth no longer anchors political life? Valeriia Shaliakhina reviews Michael Patrick Lynch’s "On Truth in Politics," a book that argues democracy cannot survive without a shared respect for facts and knowledge. 📚 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/wxkxhvpn

✍️ Hungary’s “electoral revolution” swept away Fidesz’s 16-year rule. But in many marginalized rural communities, the revolution barely arrived. Vera Messing and Judit Durst examine how media isolation and clientelist dependency sustained the party's support. 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yhj57t7t

🎙️ In the newest episode of our series produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Ghia Nodia discusses Georgia’s fragile hybridity, the foreign agents law, and the resistance by civil society. 🧑‍💻 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdhx5tax

✍️ Trump may be trying to protect the fossil-fuel order. But his strategy could end up hastening its erosion. Deborah Martinez asks whether the green transition can break with the politics of coercion, extraction, and dependence. 🌍🌱 Read the article: 👉 tinyurl.com/4vnf9cnm

🎙️ In our new interview, @gabor-halmai51.bsky.social analyzes the potential for restoring rule of law in Hungary, legal accountability, a possible new constitution, and the rule of law beyond legalism. 🇭🇺🇭🇺 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4389wz4r

✍️ The mechanism of former Hungarian PM Orban’s defeat reveals a structural vulnerability in every authoritarian project: the insider who turns, Andris Zimelis argues in his op-ed. 🇭🇺🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mncumxsr

✍️ Ruth Gazsó Candlish and Tatev Hovhannisyan reflect on why feminist resistance today is becoming as much about rebuilding democratic life as it is about opposing backlash. 🧑‍💻 Read their article now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4vm287yc

🎙️ In the second part of the podcast, Karolina Lendák-Kabók and Lucija Balikić discuss why mixedness should be treated as a long historical process instead of a simple past-present comparison. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/23ma57t5

✍️ In his op-ed, @pedroalarcon76.bsky.social examines the international orientations of the presidential candidates in Peru, the regional epicenter of the geopolitical dispute between China and the United States. 🇵🇪🇵🇪🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/278nwuyr

✍️ @mariusghincea.bsky.social argues that the drone incident in Galati is the predictable result of four years of eroded deterrence credibility, and that Romania’s improved diplomatic response is necessary but not sufficient. 🇷🇴🇷🇴 🧑‍💻 Read his op-ed now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2ks6ejez