Reviewing Contemporary Democracy: An Anthology of Our First Five Years
How do leading scholars reflect on contemporary democracies and the prospects of a more democratic future? This new volume offers a selection of conversations that we published in our first five years and probe that overarching question through six key facets: the relationship between democracy and equality; the historical, legal, and political dimensions of European integration; the globality of democratic thought and democratization; the inclusivity of contemporary memory regimes; the origins and discontents of our political economies; and the contestations of the rule of law.
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Book Reviews
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14.07.2026
Who Governs After the Experts? Reading Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism
In Washington, the president has spent the winter browbeating the Federal Reserve: demanding rate cuts by decree, musing aloud about removing its chair, treating monetary [...]
7.07.2026
What Does the Archive Not Tell? Reclaiming Dignity Through Fiction
facts change when they become part of a larger narrative? Are archives trustworthy repositories of historical truth? All these questions are central to Lea Ypi’s most recent [...]
Podcasts and interviews
All Interviews and Podcasts20.07.2026
How to Lean into Disruptive Change? – Mark Leonard on a New Artisanal Code for Europe
In our new podcast, Mark Leonard (co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations) discusses the conclusions he has drawn concerning “the four Cs:” capital, climate, chips, [...]
16.07.2026
The Battle for the Future of Democracy Begins in the Archive. A Conversation with István Rév
The panel Rethinking CEU’s Legacy: Education, Engagement, and Democratic Transformations, reflected on the thirty-five years of CEU’s role in democratic change across Central and Eastern Europe. [...]