As Europe hardens its security agenda, it risks weakening the local foundations that make societies resilient in the first ...

A positive form of populism? Péter Magyar’s victory shows that if you want to beat illiberal forces, voters’ fears must be ...

A post-American world? Apparently not so bad after all. The collapse of the world order is going much better than expected ...

If it is true that art imitates life, works of imagination can reflect underlying truths about our own experience. The ...

Vice-Rector for Research at Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU). His research has focused primarily on East and Central European intellectual history, the history of ideas and comparative literature ...

The manosphere is no longer fringe. Backed by algorithms and money, it is reshaping politics one grievance at a time ...

Russia’s war exposes a blind spot in Europe’s historical memory: imperialism did not end with overseas colonialism ...

Khanya Burns-Ncamashe is Head of Democracy at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) South Africa, focusing on strengthening democratic culture, supporting civil society and advancing inclusive political ...

Britain is set to get its seventh prime minister in a decade. Starmer’s technocratic politics proved ill-suited to an age of populist impatience ...

‘Checkmate in Iran’ — few have captured it as succinctly as Robert Kagan, an icon of American neoconservatism. And he has a point: the failed war against Iran marks a watershed for the Middle East.

The crisis in the Persian Gulf makes one thing clear: today, the real dividend of the energy transition is not only climate protection. It is geopolitical resilience. Countries that have switched ...

When you look at the European debate on China – and specifically the German debate – what is the biggest misconception preventing us from understanding China realistically today? I don’t think there ...