democracy

Some believe life will return pretty much to “normal” once the Covid-19 crisis passes. Most commentators, however, warn that we will be living in a very different world. I see a third possibility: that the pandemic is essentially part of,…

The global politics of the current Covid-19 pandemic intersect in complex ways with the liberal world order: its making, ongoing crisis, and potential unmaking. What the characteristics of this order are, and whether we have ever come to…

COVID-19 has been raging around the world for more than three months now. Since it was first reported in December 2019, it has evolved at a staggering speed from a regional outbreak into a global pandemic with a spiraling number of…

Masks are off – on Tuesday it became clear why President Vladimir Putin proposed a package of changes to the Russian Constitution, which has remained largely intact since it was approved through a referendum in 1993. Putin wanted to have an…

Vladimir Putin has lasted twenty years and counting in the Kremlin by following the tried-and-tested rules of Russian politics: convincing his elites that life with him is better than any alternative existence without him, mobilizing the…