Review of Democracy
@revdem2020.bsky.social
The online journal of the CEU Democracy Institute, to discuss and develop solutions to the challenges to democracy worldwide. Follow us and stay connected!
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🎙️ In our new podcast, produced in collaboration with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Galo Mayorga and @kaimthaler.bsky.social discuss how state weakness, militarized security policies, and public fear are reshaping Ecuador’s democracy. 🇪🇨🇪🇨
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February 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, produced in collaboration with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Galo Mayorga and @kaimthaler.bsky.social discuss how state weakness, militarized security policies, and public fear are reshaping Ecuador’s democracy. 🇪🇨🇪🇨
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🎙️ In our new podcast produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @raschwartz.bsky.social discusses how logistical failures, elite conflict, and long-term democratic erosion combined to the uncertainty surrounding the elections in Honduras. 🇭🇳🇭🇳🗳️
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January 29, 2026 at 6:08 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @raschwartz.bsky.social discusses how logistical failures, elite conflict, and long-term democratic erosion combined to the uncertainty surrounding the elections in Honduras. 🇭🇳🇭🇳🗳️
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Join us and the @ceudeminst.bsky.social for this online book discussion! 👥📖
🗣️ Hiro Fujimoto
🗣️ @homeiaya.bsky.social
🗣️ Ellen Gardner Nakamura
🗣️ Amelia Bonea
🗣️ Adrian Matus
🗓️ Feb 6, 7pm CET
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🗣️ Hiro Fujimoto
🗣️ @homeiaya.bsky.social
🗣️ Ellen Gardner Nakamura
🗣️ Amelia Bonea
🗣️ Adrian Matus
🗓️ Feb 6, 7pm CET
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January 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Join us and the @ceudeminst.bsky.social for this online book discussion! 👥📖
🗣️ Hiro Fujimoto
🗣️ @homeiaya.bsky.social
🗣️ Ellen Gardner Nakamura
🗣️ Amelia Bonea
🗣️ Adrian Matus
🗓️ Feb 6, 7pm CET
🔴📽️ Online on YouTube
Details:
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🗣️ Hiro Fujimoto
🗣️ @homeiaya.bsky.social
🗣️ Ellen Gardner Nakamura
🗣️ Amelia Bonea
🗣️ Adrian Matus
🗓️ Feb 6, 7pm CET
🔴📽️ Online on YouTube
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✍️ Despite repression, censorship, legal manipulation, and disinformation, the regime in Bangladesh failed to contain a decentralized, student-led movement in July 2024 that ultimately forced its collapse, Muhammad Zahidul Islam Miaji writes. 🇧🇩🇧🇩
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January 28, 2026 at 4:56 PM
✍️ Despite repression, censorship, legal manipulation, and disinformation, the regime in Bangladesh failed to contain a decentralized, student-led movement in July 2024 that ultimately forced its collapse, Muhammad Zahidul Islam Miaji writes. 🇧🇩🇧🇩
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🎙️ In our new podcast, our editors Adrian Matus and Anubha Anushree discuss the most important intellectual questions that might shape the year ahead.
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January 27, 2026 at 6:41 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, our editors Adrian Matus and Anubha Anushree discuss the most important intellectual questions that might shape the year ahead.
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Join us and the @ceudeminst.bsky.social for this online book discussion! 👥📖
🗣️ Lars Behrisch
🗣️ @mariatheresia.bsky.social
🗣️ @diderotesque.bsky.social
🗣️ Alexandra Kardos
🗓️ Feb 5, 3:30pm CET
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🗣️ Lars Behrisch
🗣️ @mariatheresia.bsky.social
🗣️ @diderotesque.bsky.social
🗣️ Alexandra Kardos
🗓️ Feb 5, 3:30pm CET
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January 26, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Join us and the @ceudeminst.bsky.social for this online book discussion! 👥📖
🗣️ Lars Behrisch
🗣️ @mariatheresia.bsky.social
🗣️ @diderotesque.bsky.social
🗣️ Alexandra Kardos
🗓️ Feb 5, 3:30pm CET
🔴📽️ Online on YouTube
Details:
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🗣️ Lars Behrisch
🗣️ @mariatheresia.bsky.social
🗣️ @diderotesque.bsky.social
🗣️ Alexandra Kardos
🗓️ Feb 5, 3:30pm CET
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✍️ Instead of a single political divide rooted in the legacy of dictatorship, Chile’s electoral landscape is increasingly shaped by three forms of rejection: anti-Pinochet, anti-Communist, and anti-establishment identities, @eljorobado.bsky.social argues. 🇨🇱🇨🇱
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January 26, 2026 at 5:12 PM
✍️ Instead of a single political divide rooted in the legacy of dictatorship, Chile’s electoral landscape is increasingly shaped by three forms of rejection: anti-Pinochet, anti-Communist, and anti-establishment identities, @eljorobado.bsky.social argues. 🇨🇱🇨🇱
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✍️📖🔖 The transdisciplinary nature of the book is perhaps its most important methodological contribution to the field of literary studies, Luca Matasaru writes in his review.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:11 PM
✍️📖🔖 The transdisciplinary nature of the book is perhaps its most important methodological contribution to the field of literary studies, Luca Matasaru writes in his review.
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🎙️ In our new podcast, Jeremy DeWaal talks about "Heimat," which is often translated as “home” or “homeland”, but it also points to a deeper sense of belonging, memory and emotional attachment to specific places. 🇩🇪🇩🇪
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January 22, 2026 at 3:10 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, Jeremy DeWaal talks about "Heimat," which is often translated as “home” or “homeland”, but it also points to a deeper sense of belonging, memory and emotional attachment to specific places. 🇩🇪🇩🇪
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✍️ The capture of Maduro not only reshapes Venezuela’s political future, but also exposes a regional order in which sovereignty is conditional, legitimacy is secondary, and US power faces few effective constraints, @martinschapiro.bsky.social writes. 🇻🇪🇺🇸
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January 21, 2026 at 3:27 PM
✍️ The capture of Maduro not only reshapes Venezuela’s political future, but also exposes a regional order in which sovereignty is conditional, legitimacy is secondary, and US power faces few effective constraints, @martinschapiro.bsky.social writes. 🇻🇪🇺🇸
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📚 Here comes the list of five book recommendations by our editor Gabriel Pereira from 2025, related to democracy in Latin America.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:06 PM
📚 Here comes the list of five book recommendations by our editor Gabriel Pereira from 2025, related to democracy in Latin America.
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Read it here:
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✍️ It is “an instrumental book for enriching scholars’ research and perspectives, but not so much for a simple introduction to any of these subjects,” our Assistant Editor Raluca Pop writes in her review. 📚🔖
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January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
✍️ It is “an instrumental book for enriching scholars’ research and perspectives, but not so much for a simple introduction to any of these subjects,” our Assistant Editor Raluca Pop writes in her review. 📚🔖
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🎙️ In this podcast, Omer Bartov analyzes Israel’s war in Gaza, launched after the October 7 terror attacks, and how Western countries responded to it.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
🎙️ In this podcast, Omer Bartov analyzes Israel’s war in Gaza, launched after the October 7 terror attacks, and how Western countries responded to it.
🎧 Listen to it:
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🎧 Listen to it:
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📚 Here comes the list of five book recommendations by our editor Kristof Szombati from 2025, related to political economy.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
📚 Here comes the list of five book recommendations by our editor Kristof Szombati from 2025, related to political economy.
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Read the list here:
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✍️ Through moral panic, religious symbolism, and populist framing, a marginal political actor launched a powerful cultural counteroffensive in Greece, revealing how influence in populist politics often exceeds electoral weight, Stavroula Koskina writes. 🇬🇷🇬🇷
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January 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
✍️ Through moral panic, religious symbolism, and populist framing, a marginal political actor launched a powerful cultural counteroffensive in Greece, revealing how influence in populist politics often exceeds electoral weight, Stavroula Koskina writes. 🇬🇷🇬🇷
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🎙️ In our new podcast, Tara Zahra and Pieter Judson present an intriguing reinterpretation of WWI and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and examine what its wartime policies reveal about processes of disintegration and unexpected capacities for adaptation.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, Tara Zahra and Pieter Judson present an intriguing reinterpretation of WWI and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and examine what its wartime policies reveal about processes of disintegration and unexpected capacities for adaptation.
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✍️ Struggles over land, energy, water, and biodiversity increasingly shape global politics, revealing the sustainability–peace nexus as a strategic mechanism used to stabilize extraction, Deborah Martinez argues in her op-ed.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
✍️ Struggles over land, energy, water, and biodiversity increasingly shape global politics, revealing the sustainability–peace nexus as a strategic mechanism used to stabilize extraction, Deborah Martinez argues in her op-ed.
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/ytwsvwbp
🧑💻 Read it now:
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🎙️ In our new podcast, Alla Myzelev discusses the stiliagi, a youth subculture in the late Stalinist and early post-Stalinist Soviet Union. The first part emphasizes how gender and sexuality complicate standard readings of youth subcultures as purely liberatory.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:09 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, Alla Myzelev discusses the stiliagi, a youth subculture in the late Stalinist and early post-Stalinist Soviet Union. The first part emphasizes how gender and sexuality complicate standard readings of youth subcultures as purely liberatory.
🎧 Listen now:
👉 tinyurl.com/3zv8k8p7
🎧 Listen now:
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📚 Here are five book recommendations by our editor Adrian Matus from 2025, related to democracy and culture.
Read the list here:
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Read the list here:
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January 7, 2026 at 3:05 PM
📚 Here are five book recommendations by our editor Adrian Matus from 2025, related to democracy and culture.
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Read the list here:
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📚 Here are five book recommendations by our editor Alexandra Kardos from 2025, related to the history of ideas.
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Read the list here:
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January 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
📚 Here are five book recommendations by our editor Alexandra Kardos from 2025, related to the history of ideas.
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Read the list here:
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🎙️ In the latest episode of our special podcast series co-produced with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Benjamin Gedan and Elias French discuss the threat to Latin American term limits.
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January 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
🎙️ In the latest episode of our special podcast series co-produced with the @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Benjamin Gedan and Elias French discuss the threat to Latin American term limits.
🎧 Listen to it now:
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🔚🎙️ As 2025 draws to a close, Alexandra Kardos, Gabriel Pereira, Kristóf Szombati, and Ece Özbey take stock of a turbulent democratic year through three keywords: imagination, frustration, and realignment.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🔚🎙️ As 2025 draws to a close, Alexandra Kardos, Gabriel Pereira, Kristóf Szombati, and Ece Özbey take stock of a turbulent democratic year through three keywords: imagination, frustration, and realignment.
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🎙️ In our new podcast, Golnar Nikpour discusses how modern Iranian prisons illuminate broader questions about political modernity, state formation, and democratic aspiration. 🇮🇷🇮🇷
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December 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🎙️ In our new podcast, Golnar Nikpour discusses how modern Iranian prisons illuminate broader questions about political modernity, state formation, and democratic aspiration. 🇮🇷🇮🇷
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✍️ 5⃣0⃣ years after South America’s dictators formalized Operation Condor, new research and recent court rulings reveal both the scale of this transnational terror network and the extraordinary persistence required to expose it, Francesca Lessa writes.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
✍️ 5⃣0⃣ years after South America’s dictators formalized Operation Condor, new research and recent court rulings reveal both the scale of this transnational terror network and the extraordinary persistence required to expose it, Francesca Lessa writes.
🧑💻 Read her article now:
👉 tinyurl.com/2kyctfyt
🧑💻 Read her article now:
👉 tinyurl.com/2kyctfyt
🎙️ In this exclusive end-of-year conversation with our Co-Managing Editor Ece Özbey, Nobel Prize-winning political economist @dacemoglumit.bsky.social reflects on what 2025 revealed and failed to resolve about the state of democracy.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎙️ In this exclusive end-of-year conversation with our Co-Managing Editor Ece Özbey, Nobel Prize-winning political economist @dacemoglumit.bsky.social reflects on what 2025 revealed and failed to resolve about the state of democracy.
🎧 Listen to it now:
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🎧 Listen to it now:
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