Max Spoor is Full Professor of Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and Senior Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). His research is on transition economies such as Vietnam, China, and Central and Eastern Europe, in p
A critical approach to domestic work based on our lived experiences. Español
In March, Jean-Claude Juncker presented five future scenarios for the European Union. They failed to include ideas about how the EU could make its citizens happier, healthier or better off.
“You can avoid paying attention to politics only until politics starts paying attention to you.” Thoughts gathered at Team Syntegrity 2017 in Barcelona.
Academic Sara Farris talks about the 'instrumentalisation' of migrant women in Europe by right-wing nationalists – and neoliberals.
Learning from Brazil’s Real Plan experience could help Argentina to get out of the high inflation trap. Español
Slavery is about power and its unequal distribution. Anti-Slavery International has released a new charter that recognises that truth and lays out what's needed to start shifting that balance.
For disobedience to be justified in a fully public, democratic way it needs to be grounded in horizontal, pre-institutional political relations (an extremely difficult challenge both philosophically and politically).
Along with digital exclusion, polarization and manipulation are the main problems of digital democracy. Español
Domestic workers have achieved many gains in Colombia in the past years. Now they're setting their sights higher. Español
Why is James Brokenshire colluding with the DUP to cover up Northern Irish donations between 2014 and 2017?
Nationalist conservatives are dominating the political scenes in Serbia and Croatia, but how do they compare and differ in the way they rule?
