2021 floods in Germany: The Guardian

 When the Ahr River burst its banks in 2021, 188 people died and whole villages and towns were destroyed. Could it all happen again?

 

The Guardian 10/04/24 

 

 

PEW research on political attitudes

 2023 survey

Erdogan in the Ruins Christopher de Bellaigue | NYR of Books

 via Fareed’s Global Briefing

The failure of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to prepare for and respond to Turkey’s devastating earthquake is the crowning abomination of his long misrule

Leaving China by Blake Stone-Banks | Persuasion

 What will happen when the way of thinking of the author's extends to the second generation of the Chinese themselves?

From 2010 to 2020, Shanghai’s expat population dropped from 208,000 to 163,000.

«δείκτη δημοκρατίας» του Economist

 Εννέα θέσεις ανέβηκε η Ελλάδα στον «δείκτη δημοκρατίας» του Economist

THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN TURKEY AND GREECE

Over the course of 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has maintained a steady drumbeat of provocations targeting Greece. 

The Future of Democracy in Europe

 Chatham House

How the Ukraine War Will Likely End | George Friedman

 As we consider how the war in Ukraine will end, we must first understand how it began

The political economy of populism in Europe | Chatham House

 Populist challengers to the political establishment have emerged across Europe in recent years, with both right-wing and left-wing movements and parties gaining traction. Many theories have been put forward ...

Putin may fall | Tore Wig & Carl Henrik Knutsen

... the likelihood of the Putin regime collapsing is low. At the same time, there are many good reasons to believe that it has increased by many times in the last five weeks, because of the invasion and its consequences. 

Multilateralism after the Ukraine invasion | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

Multilateralism after the Ukraine invasion | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

Sustainable Governance in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis/ Greece

 SGI- Bertelsmann Stiftung 

( 2021 Special Study)

https://www.sgi-network.org/2020/

TURKEY’S RESPONSE TO THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CRISIS

  Aaron Stein | Foreign Policy Research Institute

"Trolls be gone" | Stephen Kinsella at AEON

Anonymous users generate most toxic abuse and conspiracy theories online. The right to be anonymous should be curtailed 

Political Economy Books of 2021

A scholarly examination of market’s power toll on American workers, the collected works of a pioneering economic thinker, an ambitious narrative of US economic history, a first-hand account of how the American justice system is failing, and China’s antitrust exceptionalism: here are (in no particular order) some of the best books published during the past year. 

Viktor Orbán and the Fall of Democracy

 Der Spiegel: "Cronyism, control of the media, attacks on the EU: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is transforming his country into an autocracy. This spring he will once again stand for re-election. Will Hungarians allow him to get away with it this time?"

Michael Ignatieff on Liberal Values in Politics

 Podcast with Yascha Mounk

The Power Atlas

 Power is now defined by control over flows of people, goods, money, and data, and via the connections they establish. Only states that see the new map of geopolitical power clearly will be able to control the modern world.

Junk Science of 2021: COVID-19 Edition

the most dangerous pandemic in a century spawned all sorts of junk science in 2021, running the gamut from pure quackery to ideology-fueled misinformation 

democracy faces collapse as polarization leads to loss of diversity

 Fifteen interdisciplinary teams of political scientists and complex systems theorists in the natural sciences and engineering explored how polarization is produced and influenced over time by the actions and interactions of individual voters, people in power, and various social networks.

via Steven Novella

Link to EurekAlert

add-note 

Link to PANS