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From Guilds to Pubs: The History of Democratic Practices (Part 2)
From Guilds to Pubs: The History of Democratic Practices (Part 1)
The Other Side of Law: Democracy, Rights, and Illiberalism
Challenging Archives, Episode 3- Documenting the Human Rights Organizations during the Cold War
Decolonial Constitutionalism in the Caribbean – In Conversation with Ronnie Yearwood
Progressive Pronatalism? A Conversation with Kristijan Fidanovski
A Counterarchive of Female Migrant Workers – Brigitte Le Normand on Gendering Postwar Migration and the Remaking of Europe
Technocratic Governance Without Deliberation? –Yane Svetiev on Peer Review in Financial Regulation
Challenging Bucharest’s “Little Paris” Myth: A Conversation with Alexandra Ghiţ
Who Gets to Shape the Future of the Arctic? A Conversation with Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds
America’s Disengagement and Its Consequences
A State Within the State: Lessons from Iran and Beyond
Can Unjust Laws Be Legitimate? A Conversation with Jonathan Quong
“Divisive Memories Can Create New Forms of Local Unity” – Aline Sierp on Memory Studies and Key Questions in European Remembrance
Backlash Against Rights: From Public Battles to Veiled Backlash
Towards Tempered Power – In Conversation with Martin Krygier
Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary’s Democratic U-Turn
How to Lean into Disruptive Change? – Mark Leonard on a New Artisanal Code for Europe
The Battle for the Future of Democracy Begins in the Archive. A Conversation with István Rév
Women’s Internationalism and Democracy in the Global South
Why Politicians Talk About Migration Instead of Markets
Postcolonial? – How Does the House of History Confront Europe’s Colonial Past and the “Colonial Matrix of Power”? Part II
The EU in Constitutional Borderlands – In Conversation with Päivi Leino-Sandberg
Postcolonial? – How Does the House of European History Confront Europe’s Colonial Past and the “Colonial Matrix of Power”? Part I
Challenging Archives, Episode 2: The Apartment Universities in Czechoslovakia
Challenging Archives, Episode 1: Hungarian-Language Theaters in Socialist Romania
The Ancient World Mobilized for Hate: A Conversation with Curtis Dozier
Georgia’s Struggle Between Democracy and Autocracy – In Conversation with Ghia Nodia
Mixed Families in Post-Conflict Societies- A Discussion with Karolina Lendák-Kabók and Lucija Balikić (Part 2)
Dictocrats and Dictobrats – James Loxton on Why We Elect Former Dictators and Their Children
Worlds of Wartime: Duncan Kelly on the First World War and Modern Politics
Birthright Citizens: Martha Jones on Race and Rights in the U.S.
Beyond National Democracy: China’s Ideas and Ideas of China
Mixed Families in Post-Conflict Societies- A Discussion with Karolina Lendák-Kabók and Lucija Balikić (Part 1)
The “Backsliders” and What We Can Do About Them – In Conversation with Susan Stokes
How to Secure Democracy After Authoritarianism? Venezuela and the Problem of Credible Transitions
Abandoning Democracy for the Nation – In Conversation with Filip Milačić
How Helpful Are AI Tools for Autocrats?
The “Ukraine Question” in Hungarian Culture Today – Diána Vonnák on Bilaterial Relations, Questions of Responsibility, and Paths Forward
When Populism Can be Good: A Conversation with Pepper Culpepper
Back to the Roots of the Rule of Law – In Conversation with Fernanda Pirie
From Television Series to Board Games: Replaying Communism’s Afterlife in Culture- A Conversation with Anna Váradi and Lucy Jeffery
Gen-Z: An Emerging Political Force? – A Discussion with Răzvan Petri and Vlad Adamescu
Why Would Elected Leaders Hollow Out Their States?
Ultimate Failure Via Major Accomplishments – Julian E. Zelizer on the Paradoxes of Joe Biden’s Presidency
Did Fear of Vampires Inspire Early Scientific Inquiry? A Discussion with Ádám Mézes
: Democracy on a Tightrope: Politics, Bureaucracy, and the Risks of Imbalance
EU Research Spotlight: Nils-Christian Bormann on Violence, Elites, and Democratic Stability
How Courts Can Hold Authoritarian Leaders Accountable
Anticipating Autocracies: Contradictions in Broken China
The Distinct Logic of Ukrainian Witchcraft
Why Gen-Z is Rising: Erica Chenoweth and Matthew Cebul on How We Might be Witnessing a Profound Gen¬erational Transformation
Shuk Ying Chan on Postcolonial Global Justice
Digging Up the Dead: What Vampire Panics Reveal About Power
Women’s participation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan- A Conversation with Olena Nikolayenko
Crime, Crackdowns, and Democracy in Ecuador
Why Honduras Is Facing Election Chaos
End of Year Podcast Part II- – Looking Ahead to 2026
Heimat Revisited: Jeremy DeWaal on Place, Belonging and Post-war Politics in West Germany
Stiliagi and Soviet Masculinities- A Conversation with Alla Myzelev
On Genocide: Omer Bartov in Conversation about Palestine, Israel, and Germany
The Great War and the Transformation of Central Europe: A Conversation with Tara Zahra and Pieter Judson
Stiliagi and Soviet Masculinities- A Conversation with Alla Myzelev
Benjamin Gedan and Elias French on The Threat to Latin American Term Limits
End of the Year Podcast 2025 – Part I: Reflections and Reckonings
Carceral Politics: “Public Life” of Prisons in Modern Iran and Beyond
2025 in Perspective: Daron Acemoğlu on Democracy, Delivery, and the Crisis Within
An Authoritarian Turn in Contemporary Germany? – In Conversation with Robin Celikates
Social Media, AI-Chatbots and the Death of the Evening News: How to Restore Trust in a Fragmented Media World - A Conversation with Raluca Radu
How to Resist Illiberalism: Pedro Abramovay on Reimagining Democracy in Latin America
Exiles and Diasporas in the Crosshairs of Authoritarian States – Nate Schenkkan on the Rise of Transnational Repression and What Can Be Done to Counter It
An Authoritarian Turn in Contemporary Germany? – In Conversation with Robin Celikates
How’s the Rule of Law in Poland? – In Conversation with Jakub Jaraczewski
Delivering Democracies: Maya Tudor on “What Democracy Does…And Does Not Do?”
A Turning Point in American Politics? The Rise of Democratic Socialists of America and Zohran Mamdani
Radical Ecologies of the Right and Left: A Conversation with Ashton Kingdon and Balša Lubarda
Will AI Crack the Foundations of Democracy? Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley on Longer-term Threats and Ways to Counter Them
EU Research Spotlight: Zsolt Boda on Moral Emotions in Politics and Democracy
When Democracies Start to Self-Destruct: Rachel Myrick on how Polarization Becomes a Geopolitical Threat
The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics – In Conversation with Alexander Dukalskis and Alexander Cooley
Negotiating Sexuality in socialist Poland: In conversation with Anna Dobrowolska
The Hungarian Border That Took Years to Draw
Contentious Politics and Democratic Resilience
The Myth of Democratic Resilience – In Conversation with Jennifer Cyr and Nic Cheeseman
The Co-optation of Antonio Gramsci’s Ideas by the Contemporary (Far-)Right
Tranformations of the Latin American Right: From Pink Tide to Polarization – Part2
Transformations of the Latin American Right: From Pink Tide to Polarization - Part 1
The Politics of Migration Narratives – In Conversation with Andrew Geddes
Colonial Roots and Continuities in Europe’s Migration System – In Conversation with Janine Silga
Capitalism’s Democracy: Competition and Resilience in Twenty-First Century
Scripts of Revolutions: A Conversation with Dan Edelstein
A New Constitutional Settlement for Poland? – In Conversation with Maciej Kisilowski (Part 2)
The Illiberal Trap: Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley on Trilemmas and Warnings from Poland
From Competitive Authoritarian to Hegemonic: Berk Esen on the Decline of Turkish Democracy and the Prospects for Its Revival (Part 2)
War, Oligarchs, and the Future of Ukraine’s Political Economy – Inna Melnykovska on Civic Transformation, Reconstruction and EU Influence in Wartime Ukraine
From Competitive Authoritarian to Hegemonic: Berk Esen on the Decline of Turkish Democracy and the Prospects for Its Revival (Part 1)
Holding Frontex Accountable – In Conversation with Joyce De Coninck
The Aftermath of Poland’s Presidential Election – In Conversation with Maciej Kisilowski (Part 1)
The Paradox of Dynastic Democracy: Richard Javad Heydarian on Current Developments in the Philippines, Sharpening Global Competition, and the Prospects of a Liberal-Progressive Breakthrough
The Rise of Legislative Authoritarianism – In Conversation with Paolo Sosa-Villagarcia and Moisés Arce