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Populist radical right parties and their threat to European democracies continue to develop at the local level of politics. A recent episode highlighted the importance of events in this often ignored arena: the unprecedented electoral victory of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the East German district of Sonneberg in June 2023. Securing 53% of […]
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It has been widely observed that in recent years political debate has degenerated into ever more aggressive partisan mudslinging and character assassination, with no room for a reasoned and non-rancorous discussion of competing alternatives in assessing the policy issues of the day. This trend is only likely to intensify as we enter a Presidential election […]
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In summer 2023, Senegalese youth helped to lead massive protests against President Macky Sall’s government, protests that ultimately extracted a promise that Sall would not run for a third term. Stories like this illustrate the power of youth, as well as their demographic significance in sub-Saharan Africa, where 60 percent of the population is under […]
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Despite the costly efforts of Arab activists and citizens over the past decade of the Arab Uprisings, today no Arab state can claim to be fully democratic. Two countries, Egypt and Tunisia, traveled farthest down the path towards democracy, and Tunisia witnessed ten years of democratic elections–but today neither country protects the rights of citizens […]
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In 2012 during the height of the Arab Spring Head of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, flew to Algiers to meet with his Algerian counterpart, Rachid Lallali, to discuss ‘the developments of the situation in the Middle East’. This vague phrasing provided on the Security Council website masks the real purpose of the visit. […]
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Why are the interactions and effects of information, communication and politics in the various types of conflict in the 21st century so important and yet difficult to understand? Do we, not only as the political elite, but to include a much broader cross section of contemporary society, need to rethink our approach to warfare and […]
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China has become not only the second largest economy in the world but also a juggernaut in science, technology, and innovation (STI). The publication of our book, The Political Economy of Science, Technology, and Innovation in China, is therefore especially timely, as it seeks to achieve an understanding of China’s development in STI from an […]
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What does it mean to say that international politics has a history? To us, this seems to be one of the most fundamental questions that can be asked in the discipline of International Relations (IR). In this book we suggest that drawing from the concept of historicity – and ensuing modes of historicity – can […]
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