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Reimagining Civil Resistance: From Balkan Streets to Legal Duty

Reimagining Civil Resistance: From Balkan Streets to Legal Duty Everything around us is moving, shaking, disrupting, trying to move walls and break barriers. The Western Balkans are one of the most seismically active regions in Europe, where the collision of major tectonic plates constantly shakes the ground. Yet the tremors I am concerned with here …

The Polis and the Citizen: What Ancient Greek Political Thought Can – and Cannot – Teach Bosnia and Herzegovina About a Civic State

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the phrase „civic state“ rarely remains a neutral constitutional term for long. To some, it promises equal political status regardless of ethnic identity. To others, it conceals a majoritarian project that could weaken the safeguards of the constituent peoples. The disagreement is not merely about electoral engineering. It reflects a deeper …

Political Party Ban in Greece – Thoughts after Supreme Special Court Decisions 9 and 10/2025

  Can Party Bans be allowed in Greece? A rather neglected provision, that of article 29.1 of the Greek Constitution, concerning the right to found and join political parties, has been in vogue during the past decade in Greece. The original cause of such revival was the infamous case of the far-right Golden Dawn party …