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European Politics
Interview with scholars of modern European politics about their new books.
July 23, 2024
Autocracy, Inc.
"Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that a…
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Europe's Banking Union at Ten
In 2012, to stave off the collapse of their currency union, Europe’s leaders sought to end the so-called “doom loop” between the solvency of their gov…
June 27, 2024
The Democratic Regression
Why are so many democracies experiencing the rise of authoritarian populism? And what can we do to address this? Join Nic Cheeseman as he talks to Arm…
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Europe Against Revolution
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and c…
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The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market
In The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market. Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971 (Cambridge University Pr…
June 13, 2024
Italy Reborn
Italy's resurrection from 20 years of fascism, three years of war, and two years of civil war is one of the 20th century's great, under-told stories. …
June 12, 2024
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In Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union (Brill Nijhoff, 2023) Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska offers a…
June 12, 2024
The Complexities of the EU Parliament Elections
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey spoke with Francesco Ronchi and Udo Zolleis, two European Parliament officials and…
May 31, 2024
All About Money? Elections, Campaign Spending and the Effects on Democracy
Election campaigns are becoming ever more expensive, with many parties and candidates spending large sums of money on advertising, campaign materials,…
May 30, 2024
Democracy Despite Itself
Seeking a second term as US president in November, Donald Trump joins a roster of politicians whose declared aim is to use legal means to bend democra…
May 28, 2024
The Social Acceptance of Inequality
On this episode of International Horizons, Francesco Duina, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Bates College and Luca Storti, Associate Profess…
May 24, 2024
Asian Soft Power in Estonia
How do Asian nations exercise soft power in the Baltics? Soft power is a political strategy to influence other international relations actors by using…
May 23, 2024
Why Politicians Lie About Trade
In November, it will be 25 years since the Battle of Seattle – the summit and street fight that marked the end of a half-century of ever-broadening gl…
May 10, 2024
Rethinking Modern Polish Identities
Anti-Semitic or philo-Semitic? Backward or modern? Locally rooted or diasporic? “Polishness” is too often flattened to an oversimplified list of eithe…
May 8, 2024
Modern Warfare
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War II. More than any other …
May 3, 2024
I Will Show You How It Was
The spring 2022 battle for Kyiv was "one of the most tragic – and the most bizarre – events in modern history," writes Illia Ponomarenko. "Outnumbered…
May 2, 2024
Night Train to Odesa
As a teenager in Shetland, Jen Stout fell in love with Russia and, later, Ukraine – their languages, cultures, and histories. Although life kept gett…
April 30, 2024
State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender and Race
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Éric Fassin (Université Paris 8) to discus…
April 24, 2024
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Democracies in Europe and the world over are grappling with the challenges posed by social media. In this episode, Charlotte Galpin and Verena Brändle…
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The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are raci…