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The Resistible Rise of Fascists Today

Trump, Erdoğan, Zizek, and All of Us?

November 22, 2016 • by Tomasz Kitlinski

This won’t be just four years; we are going to re-elect Trump. Perhaps it’s just a pessimism that has possessed me, but it seems that we -- the whole we, the global human race -- it seems to me, that we have turned servile. That we have become subservient and substandard ...

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The Illiberal International

September 14, 2016 • by Sławomir Sierakowski

Stalin, in the first decade of Soviet power, backed the idea of “socialism in one country,” meaning that, until conditions ripened, socialism was for the USSR alone. When Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared, in July 2014, his intention to build an “illiberal democracy,” it was widely assumed that he ...

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20th Century European Lessons for a 21st Century Brexit

July 18, 2016 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

It seems that June 23rd 2016 has become a new “zero hour” moment in European history, though I doubt it will go down in history as one next to November 9th 1989 or May 8th 1945. ...

20th Century European Lessons for a 21st Century Brexit

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Brexit Spawns An Unfortunate Hashtag

July 6, 2016 • by H. Howell Williams

I went to sleep on Thursday, June 23 on a continent, and I woke up Friday on an island. The country that I had lived in for three years, a place that had begun to feel like home, had voted to leave the European Union. And while friends, family members, ...

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Reflections: Before and After the Brexit Referendum

July 1, 2016 • by Anonymous

A colleague shared his impromptu reflections on Brexit, both before and after the referendum last Thursday. Before Regarding Brexit, basically I think “a plague on both your houses” -- nationalists and liberals. But for now more a plague on the Tory “Leave” side, so severe is the noxious brew that’s been ...

Reflections: Before and After the Brexit Referendum

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After the Brexit Vote: Federations, Federal States or Back to the Bad Past?

June 29, 2016 • by Andrew Arato

The electorate of the United Kingdom has voted for an exit from the European Union, suggesting that we may now have to rethink everything on the question of federations. Thus this follow up on my last post. The good news for me is that nothing in my original piece requires fundamental ...

After the Brexit Vote: Federations, Federal States or Back to the Bad Past?

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The Thelma-and-Louise-Gambit

June 28, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

Your car is not working. In fact it is falling apart: it eats up gas, burns oil, grinds the transmission, and wobbles its wheels. You have been taking the car to a mechanic whom you have known for years. He charges a small fortune, and typically, within a week or ...