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International Affairs
Trapped Into History: Macedonia’s Rough Road to Europe
Alessio Giussani 17 June 2020

After solving the naming dispute and getting admitted into NATO, the Republic of North Macedonia will soon be called to a snap election. At stake will be the country’s determination to join the EU beyond the many, history-rooted obstacles.
Political Theory, Sociology
Populism… and After
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Michel Wieviorka 5 May 2020
Populism is not really a concept and the recent wave all over the world should be called maybe “neopopulism”. Neopopulism is not in itself extremism, nationalism, radicalization. But due to its mythical structure, it may lead to these phenomena.
International Affairs
“Family First” and Far-Right Ecologism: Slovakia’s Kotlebists Recipe for Success
Balsa Lubarda 24 March 2020

Bratislava’s People’s Party has exploited widespread disilussion and frustration with corrupt politics to enjoy an electoral boom. Besides loud-speaking, there are core policy reasons behind such success.
International Affairs, Migrations
The Citizenship Amendment Bill: A Pall Over India’s Democracy
Maria Tavernini 18 December 2019

The controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) is widely seen as a frontal attack on the secular character of the Indian Constitution, the principle of equality, and it openly discriminates against the Muslim minority. Is India turning into a Hindu’s nationalist state?
Political Theory, Society, Sociology
Liberals need to Engage in the Nationalism of the Vulnerable
Yael Tamir 3 December 2019

The reemergence of nationalism is a sensible response to the changing social, political and economic circumstances rather than an uncontrolled outburst of destructive human qualities. The less well-off revoke national feelings in order to convince the elites to come back home from their global voyage and put their nation first. How can we progressive liberals combine national and liberal ideas able to give answers to those vulnerable left behind by globalization?
Society, Sociology
Ghosts from the Past: Neo-Nazi Terrorism Resurfaces in Germany
Lorenzo Monfregola 2 September 2019

As it enters a highly uncertain post-Merkel era, Germany needs to face a questions that shakes its very democratic foundations: far right extremism and political violence.
Human Rights, Migrations
The Danger of the New Politics of Dishonor and Denigration
Homi Bhabha 22 November 2018

Targeting people as outsiders is part of the new tribal nationalist agenda to protect majorities against minorities.
International Affairs
Security, rights and politics in a time of fear
Roberto Toscano 20 November 2017

But what is the contemporary world like and in particular, how can we describe contemporary international relations?
Religion
Counter-secularism and Religious Revival
Assaf Sharon 31 October 2017

It was not very long ago that religion was regarded as a relic, at least as far as politics are concerned. Now this picture itself seems an artifact of history. With the gods once again afoot in the public square, religion has returned to occupy political actors and theorists alike. Especially salient, of course, is the nationalist brand of religious revivalism, unmistakably associated with the indiscriminate political violence that has become a fixture of contemporary life.
Political Theory
We Need Celebration of Difference, not just Tolerance of Difference
Ashis Nandy 21 September 2017

Nationalism is not an old war. It came into being because monarchies were collapsing in Europe and people were afraid that in the absence of a royal dynasty mediating between the heavens and the earth no one could retain the allegiance of the people towards the State.