On paper, the prospect of a positive outcome seemed high, with popular support for Macedonia’s accession into the EU and NATO widespread. Macedonia went to the polls on September 30 to vote in a referendum that would potentially change the...
Framing far-right populist parties as just an unpopular minority downplays the actual impact the rise of far-right populism has already had on European societies. Images of violent far-right groups marching the streets in Germany and the strong...
Sweden’s summer of discontent presages an ill wind for Europe this fall and beyond. The election in Sweden on September 9 confirmed the trend throughout Europe of increasing numbers of voters ready to support populist, xenophobic, nationalistic,...
Timothy Snyder’s latest book is an important addition to the literature explaining where the present crisis of democracy comes from. A year after On Tyranny, prolific Yale historian Timothy Snyder has written his ninth book, The Road to...
The trajectory of Italy’s Northern League party is a case study of the complex ways in which perceptions of regional, national and ethnic identity operates in the contemporary politics of the radical right. If you visited Venice in the spring...
