I recently published an international politics analysis for the Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik, in which I explored the possibility of an autocracy emerging not from executive ag...

In the column “What to Do When They Vote Against Your Right to Vote,” I described a cold morning in Vienna, a train bound for Budapest, and a lecture that dismantled some of the most comfortable certa...

My maternal grandfather, a man endowed with singular historical knowledge and a sharp curiosity about domestic and global politics, began almost all of our encounters with the same warning: one had to...

It was an early Friday in Vienna. The autumn chill was slowly making its presence felt, and with a hot coffee in hand, I waited for the train that would take me to Budapest, crossing the border betwee...

“As we were saying in our last class” was the sentence with which Gaetano Salvemini, political scientist and historian from southern Italy, opened his class at the University of Florence on November 1...

In the last column… In the last column, of the same name but Part I, we discussed the reasons for simplifying all dictatorships under the single label of “dictatorships,” how such simplification can b...

The proposal In one of my first columns for DPolitik, aptly titled “Is Dictatorship Pop(?)” (references below), I briefly touched on the topic of the variety of dictatorships around the world. But thi...

In the last column… In the last column, of the same name but Part I, we discussed the historical events that led to the creation (and the justification) of the Chinese principle of non-intervention. T...

The Proposal Some topics demand stamina if we want to discuss them with the proper depth, nuance, and authority. Certainly, one of those topics deserving broad space for reflection is China’s current...

In January 2025, Trump takes office as President of the United States and, among other campaign promises, commits to cracking down on pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which he understands as antisemiti...