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THE EU AND ‘DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT: Is the EU in crisis?
D emocracy is hard work. Demagogues can enforce their rule through repression, armies and buy-offs. But democracy requires constant...
Lia Goldman
Oct 19, 2024


EROSION FROM WITHIN: The Great American Redoubt
W hen citizens think about ‘survival’, it is often in the context of climate disasters, nuclear attacks, the country being knocked into...
Anoushka Jha
Oct 19, 2024


MODERN SEXISM: Why Inequality Will Lead to Democratic Destruction
A political scientist at Texas A&M University claimed that a social contract is forged between leaders and their male subjects: “Men...
Laura Ionescu
Oct 19, 2024


THE MATTER OF STATE SECURITY: Russia’s War on Democracy, its Motivations, and a Call to Self-Defence
“There is no such thing as a former KGB agent.” - Badri Patarkatsishvili, former employer of Andrey Lugovy, KGB/FSB agent, turned Deputy...
Joseph Bingham Opp
Oct 19, 2024


THE BALKAN POWDER-KEG: Why the World Should Care about Bosnia’s Newest Separatist Crisis
2 021 has been marked by several major international developments, from the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, to escalating tensions in...
Jacob Adelhoch
Oct 19, 2024


HOW TO OVERTHROW A GOVERNMENT? Can Democracy recover from a coup d’état?
Y our country is in chaos. You know the only way to resolve this crisis is to take con- trol and lead your nation to peace and order....
Omar Khan
Oct 19, 2024


HONG KONG: Democracy or Dictatorship?
H ong Kong may never have been a fully-fledged democracy in the Western sense, but it certainly was not a dictatorship. In 1997, as a...
Raphael Conte
Oct 19, 2024


DREAMS AND REALITY CLASHING: Libya’s Hard and Uncertain Road to Democracy.
O n the 15th of September 2011, in the midst of the Arab Spring which was sweeping the Middle East and infusing its peoples with hope for...
Lucien Enev
Oct 19, 2024


DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDE? Georgian Democracy and EU Relations Years after Saakashvili
'P olitical crisis’ is the term that most journalists use to describe Georgia’s current political climate. But why is that? For a country...
Saulet Tanirbergen
Oct 19, 2024
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