A review essay of key works and trends in the political thought of Central and Eastern
Europe, before and after 1989. The topics examined include the nature of the 1989 velvet …

After a decade of worryingly adverse trends in democracy, this book goes somewhat against
the analytical grain in exploring efforts to uphold and improve European democratic …

Scholarly debate about the prospects of democracy have undergone a fundamental change
in the last three decades. While the period of the 1990s might be distinguished by extensive …

In the last decade Czechia's foreign and security policies were destabilised by the activities
of external actors, with Russia in the leading role, and also by internal actors who followed …

This chapter addresses the question of how higher education should respond to the rise of
populism as witnessed across Europe and the USA. Populism involves two related claims …

The 'university becoming'will need to question not only the increasingly undemocratic and
illiberal societies within which it operates but also its own sense of purposefulness. The …

This book is the first systematic, multicountry exploration of far-right Newspeak. The
contributors analyze the ways in which contemporary far-right politicians, intellectuals, and …

Moving beyond existing models from economics and political science, this book shows how
crises in capitalism and democracy can be solved with Systemic coordinated inter …

The Democracy Manifesto is about how to recreate democracy by replacing elections with
government that is truly of, by and for the people. Written in engaging and accessible …

In recent years, the EU's ability to mobilize European citizens in its favor and counteract such
phenomena as nationalism, populism, and “sovereignism” has significantly decreased …