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The cult of youth, identity politics, and the quest for enduring stability: A Romanian case study

  By Georgiana Constantin-Parke, TES Contributor   Shortly after the 2014 Romanian presidential election, on a sunny autumn day, I was walking down the streets of Bucharest. Klaus Werner Iohannis had just won the election. In front of me, a middle- aged woman was holding the Romanian flag and smiling as if in a trance. […]

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Mirror, Mirror: Germany’s Fragmenting Politics Foreshadows American Shift

  By Alexander Görlach, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs & TES Contributor     Voters in western democracies situate themselves differently today than just a few years ago. There is talk of an “axial shift.” The axis that for decades divided party systems into “right” and “left,” “conservative” and “liberal,” “Christian” […]