On Demagogues, Despots and the Rise of ‘Phantom Democracies’
In many countries, hundreds of millions of people nowadays feel that they have no control over those who decide things in their name…
Politics Has Always Been a Game – But Why Does It Now Feel Like We’re Being Cheated?
The notion that politics is like a game is by no means new. Machiavellian scheming was a central feature of Renaissance political life…
A Year of Donald Trump: How He Has Reordered the Global Chessboard
In his first year back at the White House, Donald Trump has taken a profound turn in U.S. foreign policy…
Venezuela: Political Crisis and Sovereignty
These events reactivate a colonial imaginary that Latin America knows all too well…
US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning far beyond Israel’s strikes on Tehran
Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades…
What Donald Trump’s dramatic US trade war means for global climate action
US President Donald Trump’s new trade war will not only send shockwaves through the global economy – it also upsets efforts to tackle the urgent issue of climate change. Trump has announced…
The Authoritarian War on Academia
The current events in Serbia, involving the participation of students and academics in the ongoing protest movement, as well as the repression and censorship they have suffered at the hands of government…
The three Wise Men at the (White) House
After the last days of Liberus in power, a new king was crowned. His name was D. Pump…
How rebellion against moralizing has become a surprising rallying point for the political right
Alexis Shotwell, Carleton University and Kilian Jörg, Freie Universität Berlin A couple of weeks before the astonishing Feb. 28 White House Oval Office meeting that saw United States President Donald Trump and…
The Clash in the Oval Office and the Struggle for a New Global Order
The meeting exposed the struggle between the neoliberal project that shaped the globalization we know today and the new technofeudalism…