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Articles

On the Way to School, with a Stop at the Betting Shop

July 18, 2025

Learning to Drive in Romania is Corrupt and Dangerous

July 18, 2025

How Romania Defeated Populism: a blueprint for Europe

June 10th, 2025

Moscow Wants Moldova. Europe Must Stop It

June 1st, 2025

A Pioneer of Democracy. The Life and Legacy of Ion Rațiu

June 1st, 2025

The Magician’s Secret I Learned at Sixteen

April 28th, 2025

Teaching Difficult Histories: Key Principles For Democracy

July 17, 2024

Tackling populism, illiberalism, threats to media freedom, and democratic backsliding is the focus of the Ratiu Dialogues on Democracy 2024

June 12, 2024

Remembering Prof. Christopher Coker: Eulogy by Nicolae Ratiu

December 4, 2023

Partner Conference: The Art of Diplomacy and the Diplomacy of Art

November 20, 2023

The Return of History: Countering the Decline of Democracy in Europe

September 7, 2023

Popular articles

History Prize 2023: Winning Paper

July 18, 2023

Thoughts on Adam Curtis’s TraumaZone

November 17, 2022

More Voices are Needed for the Elucidation of this Age of Uncertainty

September 30, 2022

Survival Horror in the 21 st Century: Pessimism and Democracy in the Age of Putin

September 30, 2022

Emilia Rațiu: Women, the United Kingdom, and Romania’s National Emancipation

October 11, 2022

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Dramatic Game-Changer

March 3, 2022

Can you have your cake and eat it too? The story of Polish populist Euroscepticism

January 20, 2022

A Remittance of Sins in Exchange For Money: Reputation Laundering’s Centrality To Kleptocracy

January 3, 2022

The collapse of the Soviet Union 30-years on

December 3, 2021

Russian-Romanian relations at another Black Sea crossroad

November 17, 2021

The Saliency of The Past: Some Thoughts On The Case Of Romania

November 1, 2021

The Fight against Organised Crime in the Western Balkans: The European Union’s Push and Pull

October 14, 2021

Dramatic Interactions for Justice and Peace: Stories, Identity and Agency in post-Conflict Societies

October 11, 2021

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Looking Back & Going Forward: The Future of the Eurozone After COVID-19

September 29, 2021

Global Challenges to European, Western, Liberal Values

August 25, 2021

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Bulgaria, where ‘After the elections is before the elections’

August 9, 2021

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Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder

July 21, 2021

The teaching of Romanian history, between truth and denial

July 1, 2021

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Populism before and after the pandemic

June 25, 2021

Have we missed a new ‘springtime of nations’ in Eastern Europe?

June 14, 2021

Polish Protests Against Anti-Abortion Legal Developments in a Broader Contex

May 26, 2021

Quo Vadis? The 17+1 and China’s Inroads into Central and Eastern Europe

May 12, 2021

Bulgarian Elections: The Prime Minister Resigns After Winning the Election

April 26, 2021

Why war? Why conflict is so prevalent throughout our history

April 8, 2021

Trianon 100 Years After

March 26, 2021

Ukraine, Kosovo, and Transnistria

March 12, 2021

The Ratiu Forum blog relaunch for 2021

February 24, 2021

The female silhouette of the Belarusian uprising

February 2, 2021

Privacy in the time
of COVID

January 30, 2021

Global and Local Conspiracy Theories in Poland in the Time of COVID 19

January 12, 2021

What now, where to, and how do we get there?

July 9, 2020

Time is Gold – The Timing of the Serbian Elections

June 30, 2020

A Tale
of Two Lockdowns

September 30, 2020

The Rațiu Dialogues on Democracy

September 1, 2020

One crisis
too many

August 20, 2020

Post-Coronavirus resilience: no bouncing back

July 13, 2020

Fear drives the state’s response to COVID-19

April 24,, 2020

Polish electoral games in times of pandemic

May 30, 2020

A national answer to a global challenge

May 21, 2020

COVID 19 – Have we got it all wrong?

April 30, 2020

Words that work in times of COVID-19 crises

April 21, 2020

Joint Articles

Mapping Civic Education in Europe

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