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Ruanda 1994 bis heute: Vom Vorhof der Hölle zum Modell für Afrika - Wahrheit und Schein in Ruanda
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2025), 170 pp.
"1994 kam es in Ruanda zu einem Völkermord, bei dem radikale Angehörige der Bevölkerungsgruppe der Hutus innerhalb von drei Monaten Hundertausende Menschen aus der Tutsi-Minderheit wie auch viele gemäßigte Hutus umbrachten. Gut 30 Jahre später gilt Ruanda vor allem in Europa und den USA als Vo
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Autoritarismus kommt vor dem Fall: Die Kirche als Regierungsopposition in Venezuela
Herder-Korrespondenz, issue 5 (2025), pp. 44-46
"Die einstige Vorzeigedemokratie Venezuela ist seit der Regierungszeit von Hugo Chávez von Autoritarismus geprägt. Seit 2013 hält sich der Sozialist Nicolás Maduro zunehmend brutal an der Macht. Die Kirche versucht, dagegenzuhalten." (Einleitung)
Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment
Top Insights
Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), xxii, 381 pp.
"In Latin America, the production of telenovelas and TV series about the region's recent and traumatic past has grown considerably in the last 20 years, affecting societal perceptions of the past, historical consciousness, and political culture. While these TV products are usually perceived as trivi
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2025 Democracy Briefer for Funders: What's Happening to European Democracy and What Funders Can Do About It
Brussels: Philanthropy Europe Association (2025), 52 pp.
"Democratic backsliding in recent years has been characterised by gradual, often legalistic shifts, rather than overt actions like coups. Europe is seeing worrying declines in electoral integrity, civil liberties and rule of law. There are several factors driving democratic backsliding in Europe, bu
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Der Bauernkrieg: Ein Medienereignis
Freiburg et al.: Herder (2025), 544 pp.
"Der Bauernkrieg bildet neben der Reformation die Schwelle zur Neuzeit. Anders als die Reformatoren aber können seine Protagonisten ihre teilweise modern klingenden Forderungen nicht durchsetzen. Die Erhebung der Bauern wird blutig niedergeschlagen. Der Bauernkrieg wurde immer auch ideologisch inte
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As USAID dies, many of Georgia's "vibrant" CSOs face extinction
GEOpolitics, issue 16 (2025), 6 pp.
"For decades, Georgia has been one of the largest per capita recipients of U.S. assistance. In 2012-2023, the years in which the Georgian Dream has been in power, total U.S. overseas development assistance (ODA) stands at USD 1 billion 920 mil lion, according to official data. Of course, the lion’
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Afghanistan 2001-2021: Gewaltideologien und ein Hauch von offener Gesellschaft
Bielefeld: transcript (2024), 209 pp.
"Welchen Einfluss haben Gesinnungen der Gewalt auf die gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen in Afghanistan? Die internationalen Beiträger*innen richten ihren Blick auf linke, dschihadistische sowie talibanistische Ideologien und Praktiken in der jüngeren afghanischen Geschichte. Multiperspektivisch ze
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The Planalto riots: Making and unmaking a failed coup in Brazil
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 254 pp.
Latin American History Goes to the Movies: Understanding Latin America's Past through Film
Inspiring Practice
London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2024), xiii, 264 pp.
"This new edition of Latin American History Goes to the Movies uses a variety of feature films as a method of studying key historical themes in Latin America, from pre-Columbian cultures to contemporary debates. The book provides historical context as a way of interpreting Latin American filmography
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Wild paroxysms of the turbulent 90s: How 'The Traitors' documentary exposed the Russian liberal milieu
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 13 pp.
"The story which The Traitors tells is pretty simple and well known to academic scholars who deal with the modern Russian state: it was corrupt from its inception and Putin’s regime is in no way an aberration, but smooth continuity of the Yeltsin system. The documentary precipitated a wave of slan
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42 razones contra la ley antisocial: Argumentario contra la Ley de Fiscalización, Regularización, Actuación y Financiamiento de las Organizaciones no Gubernamentales y Afines
Caracas: Acceso a la Justicia (2024), 2 pp.
"En nuestro argumentario recopilamos 42 razones contra la Ley de Fiscalización, Regularización, Actuación y Financiamiento de las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales y Afine (Ley Antisociedad), cuya aprobación anulará el derecho de asociación en Venezuela y cerrará aún más el espacio cívico.
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Francisco José Virtuoso y la crisis de la democracia en Venezuela
Andrés Cañizález (comp.)
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB); ABediciones; Fundación Centro Gumilla (2023), 279 pp.
"Hay que agradecer al profesor Andrés Cañizález el esfuerzo de haber hecho una selección y curaduría de un conjunto de textos del pensamiento del rector Francisco José Virtuoso, SJ, sobre el proceso político vivido en Venezuela desde finales de la década de los 80 hasta alcanzar el período
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Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China
Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press (2023), xi, 318 pp.
Disputed Archival Heritage
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 342 pp.
"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerg
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Open Society Barometer: Can Democracy Deliver?
Open Society Foundations (2023), 45 pp.
PsicoData Venezuela: Un retrato psicosocial
Caracas: Escuela de Psicología Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2023), 39 slides
"Al adentrarse en el estudio de las características psicológicas de los venezolanos, el principal rasgo que sobresale es su complejidad y la presencia de elementos aparentemente contradictorios en su seno. En el caso concreto de las dimensiones que conforman una condición de vulnerabilidad, algun
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Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to Covid-19
London; New York, NY: Routledge (2023), xx, 299 pp.
"Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the Covid-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much publ
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Informe Cuatrienal SELAAC
Cáritas América Latina y El Caribe (2023), 131 pp.
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
New York: Routledge (2023), xxx, 522 pp.
"The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field. Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edit
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Nueva mirada sobre Venezuela: Reflexiones para construir una visión compartida
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB); Fundación Centro Gumilla (2023), 258 pp.
"El libro que tiene en sus manos empieza con una perspectiva cristiana de la realidad venezolana, para después mirar el contexto latinoamericano y mundial. Sigue un panorama amplio del desarrollo político de la democracia en Venezuela, desde el modelo modernizador del siglo XX hasta el proyecto bo
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