Democracy

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Election and Political Future

Mathew Wong • May 16 2017 • Articles

With the lack of a truly democratic government, a leader sympathising with the people and representing their interest might be the best Hong Kong can currently hope for.

Balkan Schrodinger’s Cat: The Case of Macedonian Democracy

Julija Brsakoska Bazerkoska • May 12 2017 • Articles

Urgent reforms on systemic rule of law issues and the restoration of freedom of expression need to occur in order to determine the future of Macedonian democracy.

Human Rights and Democracy: An Incompatible or Complementary Relationship?

Lillian Carson • May 7 2017 • Essays

This essay traverses tensions between human rights and democracy stemming from their incompatible basic values, modes of application and types of politics they foster.

The Faith and Good Works Party – In My (Utopian) Dreams

Patricia Sohn • Apr 28 2017 • Articles

Without a multi-party system, the range of viewpoints that citizens inhabit every day is simply unrepresented in U.S. politics at the local, state, and national levels.

Exploding Inequality is Killing Democracy

Jon D. Wisman • Jan 4 2017 • Articles

“We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both” (Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1916-1939). “Democracy is first and foremost about equality: equality of power and equality of sharing in the benefits […]

Populist Challenge and Political Judgement

Hartmut Behr • Nov 28 2016 • Articles

We live in an era of the devaluation of knowledge in which the difference between ‘truth’ and ‘lies’ does not count anymore; this makes electorates prone to populism.

Interview – Mark Blyth

E-International Relations • Aug 13 2016 • Features

Mark Blyth discusses the crises of the European Union, the repercussions of Brexit, alternatives to austerity, and his position as a “reluctant Constructivist”.

The European Response to the Syrian War: Pathologies Uncovered

Christiane Fröhlich • Jul 8 2016 • Articles

The EU must effectively address its migration pathologies and dysfunctionalities to fulfil its humanitarian promise to be a space of freedom, prosperity and rule of law

Interview – Jennifer Hochschild

E-International Relations • May 6 2016 • Features

Jennifer Hochschild discusses the threats to democracy, ‘Black Lives Matter’, and the rhetoric surrounding ethnicity and immigration in the 2016 presidential primaries.

Counterterrorism in the NHS: The ‘Prevent’ Strategy Takes to the Clinic

Charlotte Heath-Kelly • Apr 13 2016 • Articles

A policy which ignores academic research, criminalises belief, and builds an extensive surveillance and monitoring system is itself an extremist and violent endeavour.

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