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Portrait of Juan Tomás Jara Masson

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Juan Tomás Jara MassonArgentina

Juan Tomás Jara Masson (Argentina, 1998).

Graduate in International Relations (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina). PhD student in Political Sciences (UCA). Diploma in Humanistic Leadership. Degree thesis: «Conditioned federalism in Argentina».

Research lines: quality of contemporary democracies, institutional erosion, new authoritarianisms in Europe and Latin America, Argentine federalism.

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  • West front of the United States Capitol, Washington D.C.

    Opinion · International politics

    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.

    June 6, 202611 min read

  • Euromaidan mosaic (Kyiv, 2013-2014). The European choice of Ukraine, a point of clash between national sovereignty and Russian sphere of influence, opens the contemporary chronology of hybrid warfare.

    International politics

    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.

    May 26, 202634 min read

  • Luna Reyes, a Red Cross volunteer, embraces a migrant who has just reached the coast of Ceuta in May 2021. The image, photographed by Bernat Armangué (AP), became a symbol of hospitality and human dignity.

    Literary · Humanist essay

    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.

    May 26, 20268 min read

  • The Hungarian Parliament Building on the Danube, in Budapest (photo: Florian Fèvre, CC BY-SA 4.0).

    Opinion · International politics

    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.

    May 20, 202610 min read

  • The Senedd, home of the Welsh Parliament in Cardiff Bay. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

    Letter to the editor · International politics

    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.

    May 10, 20262 min read

  • Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c. 1818). An image of German Romanticism evoking solitude and contemplation (public domain).

    Literary

    Longing for a truer feeling

    On the simplest things gone unseen and presence gone unvalued: a brief piece on authentic feeling, against the culture of the algorithm and appearance.

    January 17, 20261 min read

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