Beyond the Annual Snapshot: Spatiotemporal Granularity and the Next Generation of Democracy Measurement
A Research Note Abstract Annual expert-coded democracy indices remain the scholarly gold standard for comparative research. However, the temporal granularity they afford is increasingly mismatched with the velocity of contemporary democratic erosion. This research note proposes a systematic expansion of…
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Iran Isn’t China’s Ally Test, but an Order Test
| Hui, Chen Tong | Since February 28, the war in Iran has shifted quickly from a regional conflict to an international security crisis. For Beijing, Iran’s fate matters less as a question of sympathy than a question of structure, because it would reshape the operating environment Beijing relies on. Iran is…
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Beyond Good and Evil, Into the Non-Place: The Anthropology of Michael Mann’s Heat.
Recently I returned to one of my favourite books of cultural sociology/anthropology, ‚Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity‘ (1995) by the great Marc Augé. In light of my recurring admiration for Augé, I searched for podcasts or at least…
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Wer den Rechtsstaat nicht ehrt – Eine Polemik
Brigitte Macron verteidigt einen französischen Schauspieler gegen feministische Aktivisten, die trotz des eingestellten Verfahrens gegen Schauspieler Ary Abittan weiter an die Schuld dessen glauben, eine Vergewaltigung begangen zu haben. Die Aufregung besteht dabei nicht etwa über das rechtsstaatliche Verständnis der…
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The Rise of Authoritarian Middle-Powers and What It Means for World Politics
by Desrosiers, Marie-Eve, and Nic Cheeseman. 2026. The Rise of Authoritarian Middle-Powers and What It Means for World Politics. Cambridge Elements in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781009705264 Marie-Eve Desrosiers and Nic Cheeseman seek to correct a blind…
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1.000 Besucher: Eine Zwischenbilanz nach acht Monaten Heidelberg Review
Seit nunmehr acht Monaten besteht Heidelberg Review als unabhängige, studentisch initiierte Plattform für politische Analyse, Essayistik und Rezension. In diesem Zeitraum wurden 22 Beiträge veröffentlicht – verfasst von den beiden Founding Editors sowie von vier Gastautoren. Die Gastbeiträge stammen aus…
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The Milkshake Theory of AI Unemployment
It brings all the economists to the yard (and they’re fighting) | Bruno Moreira | For the past few months, I’ve been drowning in macroeconomic problem sets so abstract they almost felt theological. I’m writing this text to push back…
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Exhaustion by Design: How Aesthetic Minimalism and Moral Maximalism Hollow Out Democratic Life
| Vural C. Kaptan & Kirill Kappes | Abstract Contemporary institutional design exhibits a paradoxical divergence: while visual identities are simplified into minimalist abstractions, the ethical demands placed on individual decision-making are expanding aggressively. This essay argues that coupling aesthetic…
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