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Albena Azmanova

Albena Azmanova is a professor of political and social science at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies. Her most recent book is Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity can Achieve Radical Change without Crisis or Utopia (Columbia University Press).

Will the young save Europe from the rise of the far right?

Albena Azmanova

A generation defined by economic insecurity is grabbing for a guardrail, not engaging for emancipation.

The rule of law: a simple phrase with exacting demands

Albena Azmanova and Kalypso Nicolaïdis

If the finger is to be pointed—rightly—at Hungary and Poland, then the EU must insist on compliance by all with universal norms.

The nascent paradigm shift in the EU

Albena Azmanova

Emergency action to enhance healthcare and unemployment insurance might signal a paradigm shift for the union from market integration to providing public goods.

Whose is the European Green Deal?

Albena Azmanova

The challenges of social and environmental injustice are as intense as ever. But which social forces can act as the agents of change?

The big Green New Deal and its little red social question

Albena Azmanova

Why does environmental promise always fall short in practice? A new answer to the social question can bridge the gap.

Abuse Of The Rule Of Law In The EU

Albena Azmanova

Spanish Premier Mariano Rajoy is about to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy, and EU leaders have ruled out involvement in the crisis, with the justification that the