A critical legal issue in water governance is who owns and who holds property rights in
water. Hence, we address the question: How has the state of legal knowledge on private …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

To develop a robust surveillance apparatus in the digital age, autocracies are compelled to
rely on foreign suppliers or to allow domestic private entrepreneurs to enter a strategic …

Extractivism characterizes the modern era. We define extractivism in this publication as a
particular way of thinking and the properties and practices organized towards the goal of …

Why did the Kremlin fail to rely on the 'soft power'to secure its interests in Ukraine and
instead opt for the military invasion? At the same time, why did the Kremlin believe that …

The past years have witnessed a growing awareness of the role of institutions of knowledge
production in reproducing the global climate crisis, from research funded by fossil fuel …

More than 40 years ago, János Kornai introduced his famous supermarket metaphor.
Socioeconomic systems cannot be constructed from purposely selected features, similar to …

The article aims to conceptualize the contemporary illiberal model of state capitalism with
the main focus on emerging economies. State capitalism is understood in a broad sense, as …

What explains the wide support for the invasion of Ukraine in Russia in the first months after
it started? Many alleged that this support reflects an imperialist ideology permeating Russian …

'The revolutions of 1989'remains the standard term used to describe the onset of post-
communist transformations more than thirty years ago. Zenonas Norkus proposes a …