Serbia's student movement is on the ballot on 25 October, but no student is a candidate. Drawing on internal documents, Sadie ...

The radical-right Chega party enjoyed a sharp rise in support during Portugal's recent parliamentary elections. With European elections coming up in June, Diogo Vieira Ferreira warns that support for ...

Laura Southgate finds that democracy alone does not consistently reduce disaster impacts across Southeast Asia. A clearer ...

Voters say they value democracy, yet governments that weaken courts and watchdogs rarely pay a price. Filippo Palmieri argues ...

A fascist zeitgeist has replaced the populist one. Luca Manucci explains how, to attract voters, the contemporary far right ...

The Holy See has no army, no intelligence service and no counterterrorism capability. Yet, Shreya Nautiyal argues, Pope Leo ...

Vladyslav Butenko argues that Brazil’s presidential race is not a contest over the size of the welfare state. Lula offers ...

Refugees are not born of persecution; they are made by states. People may flee war, violence or persecution, but they only ...

Co-creation has become a familiar response to Europe’s democratic malaise. Marjan Marjanović argues that inviting citizens ...

Contributors to this Future of Populism blog series have written about the definition of populism, the emergence of authoritarian populism, the influence of the military in populist governments, and ...

Georgia has recently been rocked by ongoing anti-government protests, triggered by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s announcement on 28 November that his Georgian Dream (GD) government – already ...

Why has West Africa experienced so many military coups over the past couple of years? Reuben Twinomujuni and Hannah Muzee say the inadequacies of the African Union are only part of the problem. They ...