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RevDem Podcast is brought to you by the Review of Democracy, the online journal of the CEU Democracy Institute. The Review of Democracy is dedicated to the reinvigoration, survival, and prosperity of democracies worldwide and to generating innovative cross-regional dialogues. RevDem Podcast offers in-depth conversations in four main areas: rule of law, political economy and inequalities, the history of ideas, and democracy and culture.

Episode Date
The Rise of Legislative Authoritarianism – In Conversation with Paolo Sosa-Villagarcia and Moisés Arce
Jul 07, 2025
Mapping Crisis Across Borders: Balázs Trencsényi on the Interwar Period, Intellectual History, and the Future of Democracy
Jul 03, 2025
Curating Europe’s Memory: A Conversation with Simina Bădică about the House of European History
Jun 30, 2025
Reimagining Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Conversation
Jun 26, 2025
Startup Democracy: Meritocracy and Gender in Bangalore, A Conversation with Hemangini Gupta
Jun 24, 2025
Shaping the Culture of a City: A Conversation with Bohdan Shumylovych
Jun 20, 2025
Can Courts Save Democracy? In Conversation with Samuel Moyn
Jun 16, 2025
Survival, Resistance and Readiness in Dark Times – Vincent Liegey on the Trajectory and Future of the Degrowth Movement
Jun 11, 2025
Instrumentalization of Migration? - In Conversation with Nora Markard
Jun 06, 2025
Can Democracy Deliver? Francis Fukuyama and Beatriz Magaloni on Performance, Legitimacy, and Public Trust
Jun 05, 2025
David vs. Goliath: Defeating Russian Autocracy
Jun 02, 2025
Erased: Women, Power, and the Hidden History of International Relations
May 26, 2025
The Unequal Republic and the Egalitarian State: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and the Politics of Redistribution in India and China
May 19, 2025
The Untold Story of Schengen: A Conversation with Isaac Stanley-Becker
May 12, 2025
Authoritarian Waves Crashing: Dan Slater Reinterprets the Third Wave of Democratization
May 05, 2025
Hydro-hegemony: Water Modernization in Nepal and Beyond
Apr 28, 2025
Valeurs de l’Union – In Conversation with Luke Dimitrios Spieker
Apr 22, 2025
Illiberal Transatlantic Ties and the Reshaping of Democracy: Lessons From the US and Hungary
Apr 16, 2025
Ex-Ministers as Constitutional Judges - In Conversation with Mathias Möschel
Apr 14, 2025
Trapped in the Cycle? – Giorgos Venizelos on the Year of Elections and Politics of (Anti-)Populism
Apr 10, 2025
Historical Archives of the European Union - a Space of Knowledge Production
Apr 09, 2025
Why Eco-authoritarianism Is Not the Solution – Nomi Claire Lazar and Jeremy Wallace on Why, Despite Its Many Flaws, We Should Stick to Democracy in Our Quest to Solve the Climate Crisis
Apr 07, 2025
How the European Council Leads - In Conversation with Martina Vass
Mar 31, 2025
Political Capacity: Gianna Englert on the Liberal Struggle for Democracy
Mar 24, 2025
Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Cold War Struggle
Mar 20, 2025
Foreign Hands, Local Democracy: Toxic Legacies of Cold War in India
Mar 17, 2025
Liberal Democratic Standards Are Not Just an Opinion – Karolina Wigura on Polish Politics, Liberal Emotions, and Her Major Concerns
Mar 12, 2025
An Open Marketplace for Members of Parliament in European countries? In Conversation with Emiljana Krali
Mar 10, 2025
Texts, Contexts, and Feminist Voices in East-Central Europe
Mar 07, 2025
Beyond Narratives, Personas and Spectacles: A Conversation on Illiberal and Authoritarian Practices
Mar 06, 2025
The Right against Rights in Latin America
Mar 05, 2025
Why Is the World Down on Democracy? - Richard Wike Discusses Current Global Attitudes and the Rising Dissatisfaction with the Way Democracies Work
Mar 03, 2025
The Continuous History of Disruptions in Lahore: A Conversation with Manan Ahmed Asif
Feb 26, 2025
Radical Democratic Thought in India: Rethinking Representation with Tejas Parasher
Feb 24, 2025
Public Attitudes and Dynamics of Opposition in Russia Since 2022
Feb 20, 2025
How to Battle Abusive Governments? Kenneth Roth on the Strategies and Impact of Human Rights Watch
Feb 17, 2025
How To Counter the Mainstreaming of Extremist Ideas? – Julia Ebner on Radicalization Processes and Our Fraught Moment
Feb 13, 2025
Exporting Medical Expertise during the Cold War: Medical Humanitarianism, Ideological Expansion or Pragmatism? A conversation with Bogdan Iacob
Feb 10, 2025
Ukraine Under Martial Law - Transformations of Domestic Policies and Civil Society
Feb 05, 2025
Shouldn’t Ukraine Negotiate with Putin? – Robert Person on Obstacles to a Negotiated Ending of Russia’s Ongoing War of Aggression
Feb 03, 2025
The Significance and Trajectory of Ukrainian Democracy Since 2022
Jan 31, 2025
This Land We Call Home: A History of “Criminal Tribes” in Modern India – An Interview With Nusrat F. Jafri
Jan 29, 2025
European Values and Democratic Links – In Conversation with Miriam Schuler
Jan 28, 2025
Reimagining European Prosperity - A Conversation with Marija Bartl on the Role of Legal Imaginaries in Shaping European Political Economy
Jan 24, 2025
Who Is Going to Represent European Interests in the Future? - Zsuzsanna Szelényi on the Transformation of the EU and Our New Era of Uncertainty
Jan 20, 2025
When Should the Majority Rule? - Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on Countermajoritarian Institutions and the Question of Democratic Resilience
Jan 17, 2025
Overcoming Membership Fatalism - A Conversation with Tom Theuns on Democratic Theory and His Immanent Critique of the EU
Jan 13, 2025
How Did Right-Wing Populists Win the Immigration Debate and What Can Mainstream Parties Do About It?
Jan 06, 2025
End of the Year Podcast 2024
Dec 18, 2024
Landing the Paris Climate Agreement - Todd Stern on a Groundbreaking Document and What It Took to Make It Happen
Dec 16, 2024
Authoritarian International Law? - In Conversation with Tom Ginsburg
Dec 13, 2024
The Mystic Candidate - Călin Georgescu’s Blend of Orthodox Faith, Mysticism, and Power
Dec 09, 2024
The Rise of Successful Political Outsiders in Latin America: Lessons Learned from Argentine President Javier Milei
Dec 04, 2024
The Return of Dictatorship - Grzegorz Ekiert and Noah Dasanaike on Dictatorial Drift, Autocracy Promotion and Strategies to Oppose Them
Dec 02, 2024
Revising European Integration History in an Age of Uncertainty - Karin van Leeuwen, Aleksandra Komornicka, and Koen van Zon on Their Interdisciplinary Handbook with a Historical Focus
Nov 27, 2024
On Muslim Democracy: Essays and Dialogues
Nov 25, 2024
Coalitional history of democracy during Emergency (1975-77) in India
Nov 19, 2024
International Law and the ‘Second World’: In Conversation with Patryk I. Labuda
Nov 18, 2024
Authoritarian Regimes Learn from Each Other – In Conversation with Mikal Hem
Nov 12, 2024
The Great Gender Divergence - In Conversation with Alice Evans
Nov 11, 2024
Screening Human Rights Documentaries in Hungary for More than 20 Years- Enikő Gyureskó on Verzió Festival's Mission in Human Rights and Education
Nov 05, 2024
Majoritarianism without Majorities
Nov 04, 2024
The U.S. Elections with Levente Littvay
Nov 04, 2024
Competing Internationalisms: Samuel Hirst on Soviet-Turkish Interwar Relations, Statist Internationalism and Rejecting the Liberal Order
Oct 31, 2024
The Authority of the EU Legislature: In Conversation with Martijn van den Brink
Oct 30, 2024
Shadowing the European Commission on Rule of Law? In Conversation with Laurent Pech and Petra Bárd
Oct 27, 2024
We Need Democratization, Not of Nuclear Energy Debate but Energy Debate in General… - in Conversation with Professor M.V. Ramana
Oct 22, 2024
Lia Tsuladze on How Georgian Dream Has Diverted Away from Europe and Its Implications for the Upcoming Elections
Oct 21, 2024
Diana Dumitru on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Question of Genocide
Oct 14, 2024
The Special Tribunal for Russian Crimes of Aggression in Ukraine: In Conversation with Kateryna Busol
Oct 11, 2024
Maps That Give Power to the People - Jo Guldi on Participatory Spreadsheets, Global Archives, and the Triumph of Activist Movements
Oct 10, 2024
The Regime Change Has To Be Performed by Russians Themselves – Roland Freudenstein on Russia, the War in Ukraine, and Autocrats in Europe
Oct 09, 2024
Ask What You Can Do for Your City - Benedek Jávor on European Politics, Representing Budapest, and the Green Transition
Oct 04, 2024
If There Was Not That Principled Element of Protecting the Liberal in Us, There Would Be No Need for the Harder Edge - Nathalie Tocci on the EU’s Global Strategy
Oct 03, 2024
We Need Better Cohesion in Europe Because We Need Reforms and New Resources - Mikuláš Dzurinda on Slovakia’s Path, the European People’s Party, and the Future of Ukraine
Sep 30, 2024
A Revelation for the History of Social Movements in Hungary: Bernadett Sebály on “The Story of Our Struggles” Database
Sep 26, 2024
What Leads Idealists into Morally Disastrous Territory? - Adam Kirsch on the Ideology of Settler Colonialism and Preferable Traditions of the Oppressed
Sep 23, 2024
How to Overturn the Tech Coup? - Marietje Schaake on the Erosion of Democracy, the Need for Global Regulation, and the Democratic Internet Policy of the Future
Sep 17, 2024
True Romanianness - Marius Turda on Racism and Eugenics in Romanian History
Sep 13, 2024
The Crowd Never Left the Scene… - Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury on Crowd Politics in Bangladesh
Sep 09, 2024
Commodification of Ethnic Sexuality and Social Belonging - George Paul Meiu on Political Representation and the Role of Objects
Aug 30, 2024
Off White - Anikó Imre and James Mark on Eastern Europe in the Global History of Race
Aug 26, 2024
The Trojan Horse Has Arrived - András Bozóki on Autocratization, External Constraints, and the Role of His Own Generation
Aug 21, 2024
How Charm Shapes Politics - Julia Sonnevend on Personal Magnetism and Its Growing Impact in Our Age of Social Media
Aug 19, 2024
Populism in Power - A Conversation with Giorgos Venizelos
Aug 14, 2024
The vehicle of change is always politics - Sanjay Kumar on the 2024 Elections in India
Aug 05, 2024
Ukraine Will Not Slide into Authoritarianism - A Conversation with Pat Cox
Jul 29, 2024
Why Do We See the Rise of Anti-Democrats in Democracies? - Zack Beauchamp on the Reactionary Spirit Across the Globe
Jul 10, 2024
Why Was Central-South-East Europe Labeled as "Corrupt"? - Silvia Marton on Transnational Histories of ‘Corruption’
Jul 08, 2024
The intellectual sources of the EU Rule of Law crisis: In Conversation with Maciej Krogel
Jul 04, 2024
Gergő Medve-Bálint on the First Two Decades of Hungary’s EU Membership
Jun 24, 2024
Michael S. Roth on Being a Student and Student Activism Today - Finding the Pragmatist Middle Ground-
Jun 17, 2024
What Stops China From Ruling the World?
Jun 12, 2024
Joshua Leifer on the Autumn of American Jewish Life, the Most Serious Test of the Jewish Left, and Much More
Jun 10, 2024
Incremental Rule of Law Restoration? Polish Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar in Budapest
Jun 07, 2024
Racism Against East Europeans
Jun 04, 2024
Democracy, Populism, and the Myth of Rational Politics
May 31, 2024
Why Have Colour Revolutions Become Much Less Likely?
May 30, 2024
Securitization of EU refugee law: In conversation with Aleksandra Ancite- Jepifánova
May 28, 2024
Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe
May 27, 2024
The State of Democracy and Constitutionalism in India: with Tarunabh Khaitan
May 23, 2024
Judith Butler on the Anti-Gender Ideology Movement, Current Theories of Gender, and Their Ideas of Radical Democracy
May 13, 2024
Tensions in EU internal market law
May 09, 2024
The Spaces and Networks of Critical Theory
May 08, 2024
To push for as large a change as our democratic system will permit
Apr 24, 2024
The presidential subversion of the Mexican judiciary
Apr 22, 2024
The Movement for Roma Emancipation in Hungary
Apr 15, 2024
How Prehistories Reflect the Modern World
Apr 12, 2024
Weaken Constitutional Review, Strengthen European Democracy – In Conversation with Nik de Boer
Apr 08, 2024
Still a long way to go
Apr 04, 2024
Adventures in Democracy
Apr 02, 2024
Some Like it Dark – In Conversation with Alessandro Nai
Mar 22, 2024
Why Would You Call Donald Trump a Fascist?
Mar 18, 2024
Colonialism and European Integration – In Conversation with Hanna Eklund
Mar 14, 2024
What makes solidarity so essential and how could it become even more transformative?
Mar 13, 2024
The Rule of Law Restoration in Poland – Legal and Political Challenges
Mar 06, 2024
Politics of Uncertainty: Una Bergmane on Cold War superpowers, Soviet disintegration and a relentless Baltic push for independence
Mar 04, 2024
MILITANT RULE OF LAW AND NOT-SO-BAD LAW: : IN CONVERSATION WITH ANDRÁS SAJÓ
Feb 28, 2024
Fernando Casal Bértoa on inter-party relations in Spain
Feb 26, 2024
The Geopolitics of Shaming - In Conversation with Rochelle Terman
Feb 19, 2024
Beauty is in the Street - In Conversation with Joachim Häberlen
Feb 13, 2024
Grand Strategies of the Left - In Conversation with Van Jackson
Feb 09, 2024
A Regulatory Conception of the Rule of Law? - In Conversation with Jeff King
Feb 08, 2024
How Do You Tear Down a Border? - In Conversation with Matthew Longo
Feb 05, 2024
To Do Art, Politics, Critique, and Theory at the Same Time - In Conversation With Viet Thanh Nguyen⁠
Jan 25, 2024
Towards a Creative, Empathetic, and Solidaristic Culture of Remembrance - In Conversation With Mirjam Zadoff
Jan 19, 2024
Ukraine – An Exceptional or a Paradigmatic Case? - In Conversation With Volodymyr Ishchenko
Jan 17, 2024
Novelists Should Write for the Public Sphere - In Conversation With Bécquer Seguin
Jan 16, 2024
An Intimate Portrait of Eastern Europe - In Conversation With Jacob Mikanowski
Jan 12, 2024
Posttraumatic Sovereignty - In Conversation With Jarosław Kuisz and Karolina Wigura
Jan 10, 2024
How Ukraine Has Won Its War of Independence Without Restoring Its Territorial Integrity - In Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov
Jan 08, 2024
Review of Democracy editors' End of the Year Podcast 2023
Dec 29, 2023
Five Ideas Books in 2023 (Plus Another Five) - by Ferenc Laczó
Dec 21, 2023
5 best books in Democracy and Culture - by Kasia Krzyżanowska
Dec 20, 2023
RevDem Top 5 Rule of Law Books of 2023 - by Oliver Garner
Dec 19, 2023
Democracy cannot really function if it is not liberal
Dec 19, 2023
For Money Laundering To Occur, All That Authorities Have To Do Is Nothing
Dec 15, 2023
Who Will Define the International Order of the 21st Century?
Dec 11, 2023
Cas Mudde Interview
Dec 08, 2023
To Free Everybody Through Inclusion
Dec 07, 2023
Central and Eastern Europe after the Polish Elections: In Conversation with Daniel Hegedüs
Dec 04, 2023
Slovakia’s Path, the Visegrad Group Today, and the Implications for Europe – Miroslav Wlachovský on Current Changes
Nov 20, 2023
The Future in the European Union — In Conversation with Massimo Fichera
Nov 15, 2023
From Pink Tide to a Far-Right-Wave: Latin America’s Authoritarian Encore?
Nov 14, 2023
Peter Beinart on Resistance and De-Escalation
Nov 10, 2023
Equality. Darrin M. McMahon on an Elusive and Resilient Idea
Nov 07, 2023
The Rule of Law in Malta: In Conversation with Jenny Orlando-Salling
Nov 02, 2023
Peoples of Europe — National Leaders and Public Opinion in A Post-Maastricht Era
Oct 16, 2023
Clement Akpang on European museums: “To bring changes, first we have to decolonize the European mindset”
Oct 10, 2023
Maximilian Hess on the Economic War between Russia and the West
Oct 09, 2023
Ruzha Smilova on Bulgaria gripped by political instability
Oct 03, 2023
Disabusing Constitutional Identity? In Conversation with Julian Scholtes
Sep 29, 2023
What Makes the Identity Synthesis a Trap? Yascha Mounk on the Emergence, Appeal, and Consequences of a Defining Ideology of Our Time
Sep 26, 2023
The Darkened Light of Faith. Melvin L. Rogers on African American Political Thought
Sep 25, 2023
Bloodless Murder: Stefano Bottoni on How the Orbán Regime Was Made and What Hungary Has Become
Sep 06, 2023
The Freedom to Stay: Eva von Redecker on Positive Ecological Freedom and the Need for a New Temporal Literacy
Sep 04, 2023
In Need of a Spiritual Renewal of Europe — Modern Counter-revolutionaries
Sep 01, 2023
A Betrayal of Liberalism: Samuel Moyn on the Mistaken Path of Cold War Liberals
Aug 28, 2023
Negotiating Amidst Turmoil: Analyzing the Interplay of Dialogue and Conflict in Kosovo-Serbia Relations
Jul 22, 2023
Models of Judicial Independence in Europe: In Conversation with Pablo Castillo Ortiz
Jul 18, 2023
“Neither Amnesia nor Nostalgia” Discussing the Non-Aligned Movement with Chiara Bonfiglioli, Agustín Cosovschi, and Paul Stubbs
Jul 13, 2023
India’s Basic Structure Doctrine: Past, Present, and Future: In Conversation with Moiz Tundawala and Anuj Bhuwania
Jul 11, 2023
A Savage War of Russian Decline: Serhii Plokhy Discusses the Russo-Ukrainian War
Jun 30, 2023
Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust. Andrew Port Discusses How Germans Have Responded to the Global History of Mass Atrocities
Jun 21, 2023
The War in Ukraine and Transition: In Conversation with Maria Popova
Jun 20, 2023
How Europeans Live Now: Ben Judah on Capturing the Arc of Life in Our Time
Jun 14, 2023
Suspending Hungary’s Presidency of the Council of the EU? In Conversation with John Morijn and Alberto Alemanno
Jun 09, 2023
Nested Stories of Persecution: Ari Joskowicz Discusses the Asymmetrical Entanglements of Jews and Roma in History and Memory
Jun 05, 2023
Constitutional Conflicts are Inevitable: In Conversation with Orlando Scarcello
May 31, 2023
The Curse of the Margin? Central Europe before and after Communism
May 26, 2023
Danielle Allen on Power-Sharing Liberalism
May 24, 2023
Accession Through War? Ukraine and the EU: In Conversation with Roman Petrov
May 22, 2023
The Curse of Russian Imperialism: Martin Schulze Wessel on Imperial Optics, False Dichotomies, and the Need to Reconsider East European History
May 20, 2023
Can the Center Hold? Thomas Biebricher on the International Crisis of Conservatism
May 17, 2023
A Paranational World — Naturalization, Fiction and Edges of Nationality
May 15, 2023
Informal Power in Hungary and Poland: In Conversation with Edit Zgut-Przybylska
May 12, 2023
The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: George Steinmetz on French Sociology and the Overseas Empire
May 10, 2023
Helsinki in Budapest: In Conversation with András Kádár and Márta Pardavi
May 03, 2023
Illiberalism in Israel? The Protests against Judicial Reform: In Conversation with Adam Shinar
Apr 28, 2023
Navigating Hierarchies and Balkanist Discourses in Europeanization: A Conversation with Vjosa Musliu
Apr 28, 2023
Clara Mattei: Why is austerity so persistent in spite of its incapacity to achieve economic growth and balanced budgets?
Apr 27, 2023
A World Without Democracy: Quinn Slobodian on jurisdictional cracks and the crackpots who made capitalism as we know it
Apr 24, 2023
Be Realistic, Demand Significant Change! Daniel Chandler on What a Progressive Liberal Society of the Future Could Look Like
Apr 21, 2023
Racialized Labor — Eastern Europeans on Western Market
Apr 19, 2023
Playing Hardball: Political-Ethical Challenges of Illiberal Regimes
Apr 17, 2023
Permanent Negotiation: Balázs Trencsényi on how new projects at the CEU Democracy Institute relink knowledge production, education, and civic engagement
Apr 13, 2023
Murat Somer: Party alliances in Turkey have never been as relevant and as transparent as today [Party Co-Op Series]
Apr 12, 2023
Listening for Silences: Michael Freeden on the Role of Silence in Political Thinking
Mar 29, 2023
The Greatest Hits — Populist Edition. In conversation with Johannes Voelz
Mar 20, 2023
Constitutionalism — An Opium for the Lawyers. In Conversation with Martin Loughlin
Mar 15, 2023
Aakar Patel on His New Toolkit to Protest and Peaceful Resistance
Mar 13, 2023
Reacting to Globalization’s Discontents: Tara Zahra on Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics
Mar 09, 2023
In conversation with Jakub Jaraczewski: The European Commission’s latest action against Poland and Hungary
Mar 03, 2023
Jerry Z. Muller on Jacob Taubes. Merchant of Ideas
Feb 25, 2023
Dóra Piroska on Financial Nationalism
Feb 15, 2023
Democracy First: Shadi Hamid on Why and How to Support Democratic Change
Feb 13, 2023
Fantasy and Trauma: Dan Stone on Writing the History of the Holocaust
Feb 06, 2023
Taming the Anthropocene: Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Lars Deile on a New Era of Historical Understanding
Feb 03, 2023
In Conversation with Anna Wójcik: 2023 - The 8th Season of the Poland Rule of Law Telenovela
Jan 26, 2023
Illiberalism and Gender in Post-communist Europe
Jan 24, 2023
In Conversation with Bruce Robbins — Criticism and Politics
Jan 17, 2023
Building Enduring Democracies: Filip Milačić on the Effects of Nation and State Building on Democratic Consolidation
Jan 16, 2023
Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century
Jan 13, 2023
New Year Special
Jan 11, 2023
The Hungarian Government Became Hostage of Its Own Propaganda
Dec 16, 2022
The EU Prize for Literature — In Conversation with Anne Bergman-Tahon
Dec 15, 2022
Cannibal Capitalism: Nancy Fraser on How the Global Economic Order Consumes the Foundations of Our Democracy and Society
Dec 14, 2022
Informal Powers as a Barrier to EU Accession. Nino Tsereteli on Georgia's EU Candidacy
Dec 12, 2022
How the Necessary Cold War Ended – and Why an Unnecessary One Followed It: Archie Brown on the Political and the Personal in the Relationship Between the West and the Soviet Union/Russia
Dec 05, 2022
Emancipating Jews from Narratives of Victimhood and Redemption: Susan Neiman Discusses Germany’s Current Memory Culture
Dec 02, 2022
The Stories We Tell Ourselves — In Conversation with Peter Brooks
Nov 30, 2022
How 2000 people made an impact at a time when society was silent: András Bozóki on the rolling transition of Hungary
Nov 28, 2022
RevDem Debate | Rainbow Families in the EU: Obstacles to Full Equality
Nov 23, 2022
Liberalism Hasn’t Provided Adequate Answers to Today’s Major Crises: Luke Savage on Contemporary Liberalism and Its Democratic Socialist Critique
Nov 23, 2022
Why film matters: Oksana Sarkisova on the importance of documenting society
Nov 08, 2022
Why Do Autocracies Last? Lucan Way on the Longevity of Revolutionary Regimes
Nov 03, 2022
The Trouble with Fortune: Zsuzsanna Szelényi on Hungary’s Tainted Democracy
Oct 28, 2022
Why Waste Our Data in Online Malls? Ben Tarnoff on Democratizing the Internet
Oct 26, 2022
Democracy as a Way of Facing Obstacles: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz on Brazilian Authoritarianism and the Unfinished Project of Full Citizenship
Oct 21, 2022
Magic Mountain on Goodreads— On Experiencing Mann’s novel
Oct 19, 2022
Building Majorities is the Essence of Democracy: Timothy Shenk on His New Biography of American Democracy
Oct 17, 2022
Paolo Sandro: The (Re)making of Constitutional Democracy?
Oct 15, 2022
Till van Rahden on Conceptual History and Liberal Democracy
Oct 08, 2022
Gaia Vince: How to Best Manage the Unfolding Crisis of Everything
Oct 06, 2022
A Path to Democracy Without Destabilization: Joseph Wong Explains the Types of Development and the Patterns of Uneven Democratization in Modern Asia
Oct 04, 2022
The Way Europeans Stop Migration is Absolutely Horrific: A Conversation with Sally Hayden
Sep 26, 2022
Andreas Eckert: Down-to-Earth Machines of Exploitation. Colonialism, Slavery, and Current Debates
Sep 24, 2022
Ambiguous Tests of Loyalty: Franziska Exeler about the Second World War and its Long Shadow in Belarus
Sep 21, 2022
How Socialism Went Global – and Why It Withdrew. An Alternative Global History
Sep 12, 2022
Democracies Proved More Successful at Breaking Promises. Fritz Bartel on the End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism
Sep 08, 2022
It is a mistake to see the Eastern vision as undemocratic — Peter Verovšek on European memory
Sep 03, 2022
Wiedemann: Repairing the Damage to Our Ethical Categories
Sep 01, 2022
In Conversation with John Shattuck: “Rights, if you can keep them”
Jul 09, 2022
Fabio Wolkenstein on the Dark Side of Christian Democratic History and Politics
Jul 07, 2022
Danica Fink-Hafner: Voters turn towards symbolic personalities when they are disappointed with political parties [Party Co-Op Series]
Jun 28, 2022
When Christian Democratic Youth Read Herbert Marcuse
Jun 24, 2022
Democracy Depends on Those who Are Harder to Fool: Daniel Treisman on the Changing Face of Dictatorship
Jun 22, 2022
A Global History of Hungary: In Conversation with Ferenc Laczó, Bálint Varga, and Dóra Vargha
Jun 20, 2022
Free Speech, Equality, and Tolerance Are Mutually Reinforcing: A Conversation with Jacob Mchangama
Jun 17, 2022
Ghostwriting the European Union — In Conversation with Tommaso Pavone
Jun 14, 2022
Davide Rodogno on the Troubled History of Western Humanitarianism
Jun 09, 2022
Wolfgang Merkel: How to Avoid Further Escalation? A Conversation on the Scholz Government and German Foreign Policy Today
Jun 08, 2022
Imperialism in Russian Literature - In a Conversation with Ewa Thompson
Jun 07, 2022
The State of the Rule of Law in the USA and the EU: In Conversation with Niels Kirst
Jun 03, 2022
The 'New Europe' Campaign: The Failure of Liberal Internationalism and the Resilience of Imperialism
Jun 02, 2022
In Conversation with Eva Fodor: How the Carefare Gender Regime Shapes Hungary
May 30, 2022
Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences: Ian Merkel on Writing Anti-Diffusionist Intellectual History
May 27, 2022
Re-establishing the Epistemological Foundations of EU Law: In Conversation with Renáta Uitz
May 26, 2022
The First Revolution Born in Oxford: Simon Kuper on the Tory Elite’s “Betrayal by Mistake”
May 22, 2022
Reflections of a European Man - In Conversation with Stefan Auer
May 20, 2022
Chamstwo — a Story of the Polish Serfdom
May 19, 2022
Boyd van Dijk on the Making of the Geneva Conventions: The Most Important Rules Ever Formulated for Armed Conflict
May 18, 2022
Laetitia Strauch-Bonart: Conservatism has little to do with populism
May 13, 2022
Helen Thompson: Local oil, global finance, and democracies without citizen-creditors
May 11, 2022
Digital Constitutionalism and Democratic Participation: In Conversation with Moritz Schramm
May 10, 2022
Realist Thought Between Empire-Building and Restraint: Matthew Specter on Why a Flawed Tradition Endures
May 06, 2022
Sarah Shortall on the Counter-politics of Theology
May 03, 2022
Gary Gerstle on the Neoliberal Political Order: An Elite Promise of a World of Freedom and Emancipation (Part II)
Apr 29, 2022
Norms & Narratives in the Constitution of the United Kingdom: In conversation with Nick Barber
Apr 25, 2022
From leisure time to oligarchs: A conversation with Iván Szelényi about his six decades of researching social inequality
Apr 21, 2022
Immediate EU membership for Ukraine? In conversation with Dimitry Kochenov
Apr 20, 2022
Gary Gerstle on the Neoliberal Political Order: An Elite Promise of a World of Freedom and Emancipation (Part I)
Apr 19, 2022
For a Democracy, It Is Vital to Be Able to Tell Facts Apart
Apr 13, 2022
Crisis as a trigger for new ways of thinking about politics
Apr 08, 2022
Mark R. Beissinger: Revolutions have succeeded more often in our time, but their consequences have become more ambiguous
Apr 08, 2022
Criminalizing backsliding judges? In Conversation with Armin von Bogdandy
Apr 06, 2022
Historians and Populism: Regional Perspectives and Entanglements
Apr 05, 2022
Peter Osnos: George Soros’ philanthropy is completely based on values
Apr 01, 2022
Does England Love Coalitions? Party Cooperation in the UK [Party Co-Op series]
Mar 30, 2022
In Conversation with Tarunabh Khaitan: Checking the Ascendant Executive in India
Mar 29, 2022
Latin America: When parties become cartels, people are going to rebel against them [Party Co-Op Series]
Mar 23, 2022
Prof. Robert Zaretsky: Irresistible Simon Weil
Mar 19, 2022
Mezger: Youth and the Politicization of Germanness in Interwar Yugoslavia
Mar 18, 2022
Signe Larsen: The Federal Telos of the European Union
Mar 17, 2022
Party Co-Op Podcast: Although the liberal democrats won, the word ‘liberal’ is still not popular in Czechia
Mar 14, 2022
Antonia Baraggia: Using Money to Protect the Rule of Law?
Mar 14, 2022
Maarten Prak: Modern democracy was a step back from the situation found in many medieval and early-modern towns
Mar 11, 2022
Dunstan: Black thinkers have contested the principles of democracy in ways that are central to the experience of these democracies
Mar 09, 2022
In Conversation with Ana Bobic: Disentangling Primacy and the Rule of Law Crisis
Mar 07, 2022
Molly Krasnodębska: A Stigma of a Latecomer
Mar 05, 2022
Marlene Laruelle: Russian society is very different from its regime
Mar 02, 2022
Martin Krygier: Three Ways Not to Think About the Rule of Law
Mar 01, 2022
Dimitar Bechev: The competitive element in competitive authoritarianism is still very pertinent
Feb 22, 2022
Kiran Klaus Patel: The European Union has unexpectedly become too important to ignore
Feb 18, 2022
Joelle Grogan: Two Years On – COVID-19 and the Rule of Law
Feb 17, 2022
Hungary two months before the elections – can the opposition win? Zsolt Enyedi in conversation with Daniel Rona
Feb 11, 2022
Suzanne Schneider: How the Apocalypticism of the Islamic State Reflects Global Transformations?
Feb 04, 2022
Michael Ignatieff: Liberalism has been weakened by its bloodless cosmopolitanism
Jan 31, 2022
Tom Theuns: An EU 2.0? Mass Withdrawal of Pro-Democratic Member States
Jan 28, 2022
Roosevelt Montas: Why liberal education is the bedrock of modern-day democracy
Jan 26, 2022
Dirk Moses: The Problems of Genocide [Part II]
Dec 27, 2021
2021's End of Year Special
Dec 24, 2021
Dirk Moses: The Problems of Genocide
Dec 20, 2021
Alberto Alemanno: It’s Not About Treaty Change, It’s About European Democracy
Dec 18, 2021
Turda: The idea of race across centuries and our current moment of reckoning
Dec 16, 2021
Richard Youngs on the resilience of democracy
Dec 10, 2021
Laszlo Bruszt: The Confederal Regime Weakens Vulnerable Member States
Dec 07, 2021
Dimitry Kochenov: Why we shall abolish citizenship
Dec 04, 2021
Grabowska-Moroz: The escalation of Poland’s Rule of Law crisis
Dec 02, 2021
Emily Greble: European History via the Experience of Muslims
Nov 27, 2021
Tamas Dombos: Linking sexual diversity to otherness is an old phenomenon
Nov 26, 2021
Julie Smith: Brexit negotiations have been damaging for both sides
Nov 19, 2021
Emily Levine on the Hard Compromises behind Academic Innovation
Nov 16, 2021
Geert Mak: The Price of Optimism
Nov 06, 2021
Democracy’s Least Appreciated Strength Is Its Ability to Reform Itself - Dean Starkman on The Pandora Papers
Nov 02, 2021
Gábor Tóka: Márki-Zay would be a Never Trump Republican in America
Oct 30, 2021
Zsolt Enyedi: Is it still possible to win an election in Hungary, if you’re not Viktor Orban?
Oct 30, 2021
Lea Ypi: Ideas of freedom across a historical rupture
Oct 28, 2021
History as Democracy: Interview with Laszlo Kontler
Oct 27, 2021
The Chancellor. Ferenc Laczo in conversation with Kati Marton about Angela Merkel
Oct 25, 2021
Thinking Like Hannah Arendt
Oct 22, 2021
Annie Ernaux and History
Oct 20, 2021
Sajó: Ruling by Cheating?
Oct 19, 2021
Madariaga: Neoliberalism is not a solution for democracy
Oct 14, 2021
Wilkinson: An Authoritarian Liberal Europe?
Oct 01, 2021
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti on Christian democracy that can counter right-wing populism
Sep 23, 2021
Krygier: Institutionalizing and Deinstitutionalizing the Rule of Law
Sep 22, 2021
Karolewski: Will the EU survive the rise of democratorships within?
Sep 21, 2021
Jonathan Holslag on World Politics Since 1989
Sep 17, 2021
LaTosha Brown: Culture will eat strategy for breakfast
Sep 16, 2021
Laurent Pech about Poland and the Court of Justice of the EU
Sep 15, 2021
Talisse: To Be a Democratic Citizen
Sep 14, 2021
Konrad Jarausch on Realistic Progress
Sep 10, 2021
Samuel Moyn on the US’ Attempt to Humanise its Imperial Burden
Sep 06, 2021
Rising Inequality in Egalitarian Societies: Revisiting the Post-Communist Transition with Mitchell Orenstein
Aug 25, 2021
Contesting German Memory Culture. A Conversation with Jennifer Evans on the Catechism Debate
Jul 23, 2021
Siegelberg: Statelessness and the Global Political Order
Jul 15, 2021
Corrective power of the populists
Jul 07, 2021
What Are the Sources of Democratic Legitimacy? Till van Rahden on Democracy as a Way of Life
Jun 24, 2021
How the US decided to lead the world. Stephen Wertheim on the transformation of American internationalism
Jun 15, 2021
“I Won’t Remain Silent”: Interview on Human Rights Activism in Hungary
Jun 09, 2021
Populism and Antipopulism: Beyond the Post-1989 Paradigm
Jun 08, 2021
Rule of Law is not like IKEA furniture
Jun 02, 2021
"The Future Cannot be Stopped"
Jun 01, 2021
Conway on Western European democracy in the postwar decades
May 28, 2021
Lawrence and Laybourn-Langton: Remaking politics in response to the assault on the natural world
May 20, 2021
Bickerton on the new logic of democratic politics
May 14, 2021
Citizens as Masters of the EU Treaties
May 12, 2021
Halmai: It’s not only about the rule of law: Poland and Hungary in the EU
May 10, 2021
Ernst Fraenkel - a Jewish lawyer who resisted the Nazis
Apr 28, 2021
Stasavage: Democracy requires continuous effort
Apr 23, 2021
Finchelstein: From Fascism to Populism and Back Again?
Apr 16, 2021
Vaccination passports - the way to go?
Apr 03, 2021
Crouch: Situation in Myanmar after the coup
Mar 16, 2021
Academic Freedom and the Rule of Law
Mar 08, 2021
Zeller: Demobilising Far-Right Demonstration Campaigns: Kamikaze Activism
Feb 24, 2021
Adding Bite to the Member States' Rule of Law Bark?
Feb 17, 2021
Bard: Rule of Law Conditionality: The Sharpest New Tool in the Box?
Feb 08, 2021
Steinmetz-Jenkins: Liberalism(s) reinvigorated?
Jan 28, 2021
Samuel Moyn on American democracy after Trump
Jan 18, 2021
Alberto Alemanno on the Conference on the Future of Europe
Jan 05, 2021