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Maciej Kisilowski

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Maciej Kisilowski is Associate Professor of Law and Public Management at Central European University.

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  1. The Authoritarian Hangover
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    The Authoritarian Hangover

    May 9, 2023 Maciej Kisilowski & Anna Wojciuk consider the dilemma that confronts democratic forces after they topple populist leaders.

  2. Does the West Need Autocrats to Fight Putin?
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    Does the West Need Autocrats to Fight Putin?

    Mar 23, 2022 Maciej Kisilowski thinks the sudden reliance on authoritarian regimes in Poland and elsewhere is both ill-advised and unnecessary.

  3. Ukraine's Lessons for NATO's Eastern Flank
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    Ukraine's Lessons for NATO's Eastern Flank

    Feb 25, 2022 Maciej Kisilowski & Anna Wojciuk worry that Hungary and Poland are on a similar trajectory of internal division and external vulnerability.

  4. How Democracies Can Beat the Pandemic
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    How Democracies Can Beat the Pandemic

    Apr 2, 2020 Maciej Kisilowski & Anna Wojciuk advocate the formation of national unity governments in Europe and elsewhere to combat COVID-19.

  5. Democratic Lessons from the EU
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    Democratic Lessons from the EU

    May 14, 2019 Maciej Kisilowski & Wojciech Przybylski argue that Poland and other countries should learn from how European institutions manage political diversity.

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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

     traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

     looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.

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