Disorientation Is the Point: How Permanent Unpredictability Broke Democratic Politics
Chronic uncertainty does not mobilise democratic publics — it paralyses them, and that paralysis is itself a tool of power.
AUTHOR PROFILE
Baris Cayli Messina
Baris Cayli Messina is Associate Professor at the University of Lincoln, Editor-in-Chief of the International Social Science Journal (UNESCO/Wiley), and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His books include Violence and Militants (McGill-Queen's University Press), A Slow Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2026), and The Moral Trap (University of California Press, 2027).