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June 2026
International politics · EN
Lessons from the Nazer State: Crowdsourced Denunciation and the Privatization of Political Repression
How a government-backed smartphone application converted civilian society into an instrument of state control, and what it reveals about the future of democratic erosion.
Mariana Puente Lera · June 10, 2026
Política institucional · ES
The Autonomous State: The Unwanted Child of the Spanish Transition
The three original sins of Spain's autonomous state system: a generalised autonomy without coherent design, juridically weak self-government, and a financing model tethered to centralist inertias.
Victor José Almenar Zamora · June 6, 2026
Opinion · International politics · EN
Cameroon Learning from Senegalese Democracy
From a Cameroonian vantage point, Senegal's recent alternations of power expose the fatigue of a democracy captured by a single man for more than forty years.
Marie Flore Mboussi · June 6, 2026
Opinion · International politics · ES
Populism and Trump as an Expression of an Unequal Society
A political religion that challenges American democracy and, at the same time, expresses a social demand.
Juan Tomás Jara Masson · June 6, 2026
Opinion · International politics · ES
Venezuela in Transition: Five Factors Favoring a Democratic Exit
Five dynamics — chronic illegitimacy, a brake on repression, economic infeasibility of continuity, closure of the migratory valve, and united opposition around Machado — that indicate a democratic transition remains viable.
Felipe Galli · June 6, 2026
Derecho internacional · ES
Israel - Palestine: Positivism as an Explanatory Variable
The Israel-Palestine conflict read through legal positivism: why International Law has been unable to stop human rights violations in Gaza.
Victor José Almenar Zamora · June 6, 2026
May 2026
Theory · ES
The Peronist Lion — Milei, Political Language, and the Illiberal Facade of Peronism
A structural analysis of Javier Milei’s discourse reveals a hybrid regime: economically liberal, discursively Kirchnerist, and politically Peronist.
Agustín Cosso · May 28, 2026
International politics · ES
Russia and Western Democracies
Timeline of a hybrid war against the rule of law. A sequence of cases stretching from Euromaidan to the Baltics: how Moscow combines propaganda, energy pressure, cyber-attacks, espionage and opaque funding to erode democratic trust without necessarily declaring war.
Juan Tomás Jara Masson and Agustín Cosso · May 26, 2026
Literary · Humanist essay · ES
Conscience in the face of indifference
Human dignity, public responsibility and Christian tradition in an age marked by the throwaway culture and rejection of the other.
Juan Tomás Jara Masson · May 26, 2026
Theory · ES
The functional death of the liberal subject: Fragmented language, democracy without intelligibility
The functional death of the liberal subject: Fragmented language, democracy without intelligibility
Agustín Cosso · May 26, 2026
Opinion · International politics · ES
The decline of Hungarian authoritarianism
After almost two decades of illiberal government, the result in Hungary reopens the possibility of a republican return. A reflection on democratic fragility in the face of authoritarian populism.
Juan Tomás Jara Masson · May 20, 2026
Letter to the editor · International politics · ES
Something is moving on the islands
Notes from an election night in the UK and the island of Ireland. Something breaks down in the political center of the archipelago, and something else, still undefined, begins to take shape on the margins.
Juan Tomás Jara Masson · May 10, 2026

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