Today at 9pm CET!
Join us for a discussion of the ties between democracy, authoritarianism and welfare, w/ Linda Cook, Dorit Geva, Luciana Souza de Leao, @josephwongut.bsky.social, Erdem Yoruk and @dnsltr.bsky.social, by @umich.edu's Center for Emerging Democracies.
events.umich.edu/event/144144
Our Researcher David Karas spoke to Reuters about how batteries became a liability for Orban
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www.reuters.com/business/hun...
✍️ Donald Trump’s second term exposes how the structural logic of populism breaks down under its own expansion. What once relied on a clear moral divide now operates through thinning legitimacy and the staging of permanent confrontation, Ece Özbey argues.
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/4nw23536
@davidkaras.bsky.social spoke to @szde.bsky.social about the economy in 🇭🇺
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www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/u...
Monday, 5pm CET:
Deep dive into gov't propaganda, independent journalism & social media in Hungary before the elections. With Peter Kreko, Veronika Kovesdi, Balint Mikola and @boralexander.bsky.social.
At @ceudeminst.bsky.social + YouTube.
More info:
events.ceu.edu/2026-03-02/c...
Research on the global climate movement underlines the importance of learning and diffusion processes for adopting similar master frames and movement tactics. At the same time, participation research suggests regionally different patterns of mobilisation and protest behaviour. Due to different historical socialisation processes, Western and Eastern European citizens show differences in political activity despite some signs of convergence. This article examines the sociodemographic characteristics and attitudes of climate activists from Eastern and Western Europe. Using protest surveys of Fridays for Future participants in 15 Western and Eastern European countries, we show significant differences between them. Western European climate activists tend to have stronger leftist attitudes, while in Eastern Europe apolitical stances are more common along with higher confidence in market solutions to solve environmental problems. Such differences are likely to affect the cohesion and success of the global climate movement.
New article!
Differences within global movements: insights from FFF climate protests in Western and Eastern Europe by Aron Buzogány, Dániel Mikecz & Piotr Kocyba.
@buzogany.bsky.social @piotrkocyba.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2623726
What does a year of German rearmament get you? If you're China, almost decade of cash to change the world's electricity infrastructure. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-china-...
📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September.
The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe.
🗓 Deadline: May 17
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Mark your calendar for the second event in our series! 🇭🇺🇭🇺
🗣️ Peter Kreko
🗣️ Veronika Kovesdi
🗣️ Balint Mikola
🗣️ @boralexander.bsky.social
🗓️ Mar 2, 5pm CET
📍 Budapest / YouTube
Details:
👉 cutt.ly/1tnq3bkY
Registration:
👉 shorturl.at/2rN2p
🎙️ In our new interview, Martti Koskenniemi challenges claims about the “death” of international law and suggests alternative readings of the current situation. 🧑⚖️🧑⚖️
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/y6anuk3j
Last Call for Applications – CEU Summer University with Financial Aid!
The CEU Summer University course application deadline for those who request financial aid or need a visa is March 1.
Course list, eligibility criteria and application forms for 2026: summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses
The first seminar in our online series "Democracy, Autocracy, and the Welfare State in the 21st Century: A Global Approach" is on! @philiprathgeb.bsky.social is talking about how the radical right has changed welfare.
Scholars, PhD, MA students, join us for the series:
tinyurl.com/4ydd8d92
Four years into Russia’s war against Ukraine, we launch a new podcast, "EU Integration Dialogues: The Ukraine Edition", with Inna Melnykovska and Marta Beska.
Episode 1 features @erik-jones.bsky.social and @vanghel.bsky.social on this year’s Munich Security Conference.
tinyurl.com/4v4bvjrb
Today!
Join the discussion in person or online
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“If Europe wants to make credible commitments to Ukraine, it must lower the political costs of saying yes,” our program director Laszlo Bruszt writes in a new piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social.
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...
The first event in the @ceudeminst.bsky.social series on the Hungarian elections featured Laszlo Bruszt, Global Forum's Director and Gergo Medve-Balint, a researcher in GF, alongside Eva Palocz and Jozsef Peter Martin.
Watch: How to dismantle and oligarchic system?
www.youtube.com/live/bD1wUjz...
✍️ In his op-ed, @nicholasrl.bsky.social analyzes the roots of the Labour Party’s current malaise and explores prospects for change to prevent a further ascent of the far right. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/yhuu2hpf
background photo: Rally against pension reform in Moscow, 07/28/2018. Photo: Taema/Flickr. Black and white picture, a woman holds up a sign with a Russian text
Curious how autocratization reshaped welfare, how social policy boosts illiberal rulers? Our free online seminar series for PhD and MA students starts Feb 26.
More info, registration: democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/gf-...
💡 New event video
🎙️Batuhan Eren (Scuola Normale Superiore), @caterinafr.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger (Uni Vienna) & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @gmfus.bsky.social explores how illiberal actors shape politics in Austria, Italy & France
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-42...
More women now are graduating from university than men, and ever more women are taking up leadership roles in many spaces. As the role of women in society, we’ve seen attempts to push women back into “traditional” roles, as I said in at a @munsecconf.bsky.social event.
symbolic black and red image: a large figure looms over a group of people protesting. Information about the event is added in white letters.
Join us on Monday for the first event of a new discussion series on the 🇭🇺 elections, organized by @ceudeminst.bsky.social, featuring Laszlo Bruszt, Jozsef Peter Martin, Gergo Medve-Balint, Eva Palocz and Balint Mikola. Topic: how to dismantle an oligarchic system.
events.ceu.edu/2026-02-16/c...
Volume 74, Issue 1 of @polstudies.bsky.social is now available. Here is the Editor's Introduction, outlining our editorial goals and reflecting on the year's successes and challenges.
Read the full issue here: buff.ly/rUI1FTL
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @syysr.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social
One way to renew American democracy. My article for @us.theconversation.com building on the recent task force report of the Academy of Arts and Sciences on the benefits of shifting from winner-take-all elections to proportional representation (PR). theconversation.com/proportional...
2 important rule of law related opinions today with one by AG Capeta the most important as it more broadly concerns undue politicisation of EU’s rule of law toolbox with enforcement or lack thereof dependent on (disguised) reasons of political expediency
democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/lau...
🎙️ In our new podcast, Olena Nikolayenko discusses what counts as “real” participation and to what extent gender matters in a revolution, and places women’s protest within a broader framework, including the Arab Spring and Belarus.
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/465nta7s
Swim! Definitely swim!
Looking forward to being back in Oxford this Tuesday. Please join us in conversation w/ @dimitarbechev.bsky.social & @Richard Youngs @St Antony's College or just come say hi.
Advance your research at the MethodsNET Summer School. Explore our Statistical & Computational track:
- Causal Inference
- Applied Social Network Analysis
- Quantitative Text Analysis
- Machine Learning & LLMs
- Panel Data
See More: methodsnet.org/course-list/
#MethodsNET #ResearchMethods
A decade after surviving #ISIS #genocide, #Yazidis who once found protection in Germany are now being deported back to #Iraq - including to the same IDP camps they once fled.
My new long-read for @uk.theconversation.com, based on fieldwork in Iraqi #Kurdistan.
✍️ 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. 🇧🇩🇧🇩
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/5frfn3h8
📽️ Have you missed our concluding conference mapping the illiberal challenge to liberal democracy in Europe held at the Central European University @weareceu.bsky.social earlier this month?
☝️ Worry not!
