Perspectives on Politics

Trump and the Populist Authoritarian Parties: The Silent Revolution in Reverse by Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan, and Pippa Norris, Harvard University Growing up taking survival for granted makes people more open to new ideas and […]

The Left Side of History: The Embattled Pasts of Communism in the Twentieth Century by Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Chicago When as a graduate student embarking on dissertation research I arrived in the Soviet Union in […]

Post-Soviet Neo-Eurasianism, the Putin System, and the Contemporary European Extreme Right by Andreas Umland, the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kyiv Cas Mudde recently observed that “populist radical right parties are the most studied party family […]

The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: German Émigrés and the American Cold War by Peter C. Caldwell, Rice University Nearly 100 years ago, the Revolution of 1918 toppled the German Empire, leaving in its wake Germany’s first […]

The Intellectual History of Post-communism: Why We Need It, and How Not To Write It by Venelin I. Ganev, Miami University of Ohio Over the last 27 years developments in the former “second world” have attracted a […]

China and the Future of World Politics by Jessica Chen Weiss, Cornell University In less than seven decades since its founding in 1949, China has transformed itself from an isolated and impoverished country to one that sits […]