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Published in: Global ExtremesResilience, radicalisation and democracy in the COVID-19 Pandemic
With lockdowns, an already alarming situation of vulnerability to political manipulation is at risk of becoming a...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhat does the coronavirus tell us about the West’s image of Asia – and itself?
In a time of pandemic and radical uncertainty, we face tests of individualism, governance, globalised capitalism,...
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Published in: 50.50Who's happy about coronavirus?
Our rights and democracies are under threat. But how this crisis reshapes our world depends on us.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSectarianism will not defeat coronavirus: no one is immune
Are religious ideologues on coronavirus threatening to tear apart the much needed human solidarity to overcome the pandemic?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Enlarging the context on COVID-19: Europe and Africa
As the dust on the first brutal phase of the pandemic settles in Europe, containment of the pandemic cannot succeed...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightGermany: is the COVID-19 pandemic weakening the far right?
German far-right responses to the COVID-19 pandemic reveal their lack of social responsibility.
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Published in: Global ExtremesWhat the ‘war on terror’ can teach us about the fight against COVID-19
‘Extremism’ must not be cast as an epidemic. But we can learn relevant lessons from the problems created in countering it.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionLondoners in lockdown are missing this magnificent monument
The Tate Modern turbine hall is exhibiting a fountain of reconcilliation for imperial crimes
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?New dimensions of terrorism: tracking right-wing inspired lone wolves
The significance of the American position should not be underestimated, for they are also host to many of the most...
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Published in: Global ExtremesFrance: is there such a thing as “Islamist separatism”?
What does it mean when the French president Emmanuel Macron warns of "Islamist separatism"?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What happens to freedom of movement during a pandemic?
Restrictions are particularly problematic for those who need to move in order to find safety, but whose elementary...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightFar-right vigilantism at Europe’s borders: the Greek experience
The activities of vigilante groups should be contained before far-right groups add fuel to the fire.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat the coronavirus outbreak means for thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Without access to health care, anxieties and fear intensified as refugees face the increasing threat of a COVID-19 outbreak.
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Published in: openMovementsVirus: all that is solid melts in the air
Is it easier to ascertain the truthfulness and quality of a society’s institutions under normal daily circumstances...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPalestine: Olive trees don’t catch coronavirus
While the world struggles to face the coronavirus pandemic, the Israeli army scrambles to uproot olive trees.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWe must stand up to protect Brazil’s Amazon rainforest from this huge dam
The construction of the Belo Monte Dam in the Brazilian Amazon threatens to destroy unique cultures, making...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On the edges of democracy: mobilizing health and care as a common good
In the moment of the ‘corona crisis’, autocratic tendencies are cropping up, hitting those who are the least...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right#TradWives: sexism as gateway to white supremacy
The TradWives debate is a new and effective recruiting tool for the growing intersection between toxic masculinity...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionToday's Brazil is worse than Marielle Franco's. But its future belongs to the Marielles
Today's Brazil is not the same as the one the murdered young councilwoman knew and fought for. But the seed planted...
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Published in: HomeAfter the pandemic: how will the right fight back?
Five ways in which they might rescue the wider political project from the jaws of defeat.