The EU’s growing partnership with Central Asia raises questions about democracy, human rights, and gender equality. This issue explores these challenges through the work of an international academic group, with a focus on citizens’ perspectives and prospects for democratic change.

Çiğdem Çıdam reviews William Scheuerman’s 'Property Disobedience as Political Protest,' finding its typology that helps make sense of the messy empirical cases of property disobedience we encounter in political life convincing, while also calling into question how he tries to assess the “effectiveness” of such acts.

This essay examines how political rhetoric in the United States uses anti-transgender messaging to construct children as vulnerable and in need of protection.

In his analysis of infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, Francisco Martínez examines how possible catastrophes become present obligations, and asks how citizens can retain authority over decisions made in the name of their protection.

In his analysis of Carl Schmitt’s attack on democracy, Christopher Adair-Toteff argues for the contemporary relevance of Hans Kelsen’s robust defense of liberal democracy.