Join the #TUMSpeakersSeries event on February 13 featuring Vitaliy and Wladimir Klitschko on leadership under pressure, #democraticresilience, and civil society’s role in defending freedom and sovereignty. Register now: http://t1p.de/TUMSpeakersSeriesEvent
📷TUM Speakers Series
Over the next two days, the political communication division of the german communication association holds a conference on the theme #democraticResilience.
Kicking things off is Josephine Lukito, taking about “digital surrogates” in the context of right wing extremism movements.
There's a very interesting analysis that goes beyond the question of the #jihadist takeover of military territorial control in #Aleppo: "Dossier: The Resilience of #SheikhMaqsoud and #Ashrafieh in the Face of Geopolitical Ambitions and Demographic Change Plans
updated on January 27, 2026" [1]
Crushing democracy may not be as easy as #AlSharaa thinks.
The quiet danger facing democracies today: not collapse by force, but decay by fatigue.
In this piece, we explore how Star Wars, the EU, and a classroom full of students reveal the same truth: complexity isn’t a flaw of democracy, it’s its shield.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/the-empire-the-republic-and-the-eu?r=6l8ed8
#Democracy #StarWars #DemocraticResilience #PowerAndPolitics #CivicEducation #PoliticalLiteracy
#TeachingDemocracy #StoriesThatTeach #PopCultureAndPolitics
Europe has talked strategic autonomy for years - energy, defence, supply chains.This reform suggests something deeper: autonomy in democratic resilience - detection, information integrity, civic capacity, and protected civic space.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/from-crisis-to-capacity-the-eus-most?r=6l8ed8
#Democracy #DemocraticResilience #StrategicAutonomy #EuropeanUnion #DemocracyShield #PolicyAnalysis #Governance #FutureOfDemocracy #SystemsThinking
An essay about fragmentation, power, and the quiet design failures reshaping democracy.
This piece isn’t about why people are ‘turning authoritarian.’ It’s about what happens when the spaces that teach democratic life disappear and what we must build instead.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/where-do-we-gather-the-geography?r=6l8ed8
#CivicIntelligence #Democracy
#PublicSpace #Belonging
#Authoritarianism
#DemocraticResilience #SystemsThinking
#Digital #AIGovernance
#Information
Much of the debate on strategic autonomy focuses on capabilities and positioning. This piece starts from a different question: what kinds of societies are able to hold power without fragmenting?
The essay explores strategic autonomy as a developmental threshold and asks what Europe, and perhaps other regions too, still need to build.
#StrategicAutonomy #EuropeanUnion #Democracy #CivicIntelligence #SystemsThinking #globalgovernance #democraticresilience #politics
A moment from one of our youth debates made this painfully clear: the way a single deepfake could freeze a room, shift the logic of the conversation, and turn a simple question into a crisis of orientation. It’s not that young people lack curiosity or care about truth. It’s that the informational ground beneath them never stops moving.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-knowing-what-a-youth
#democracy #civiceducation #misinformation #socialmedia #ai #democraticresilience #truth #youthDebates #politics #information #society
If we want digital ecosystems that strengthen democracy, we need more than regulation.
We need new public spaces: open, participatory, hybrid, emotionally intelligent.
An essay about feeds, AI, belonging, and the civic infrastructures we haven’t built yet.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/where-do-we-gather-the-geography?r=6l8ed8
#democracy #technology #socialmedia #ai #belonging #community #loneliness #authoritarianism #AIandsociety #futureofDemocracy #disinformation #democraticresilience
Christoph Deppe
Technische Universität München
Dr. Tim Schatto-Eckrodt
Boud
Association REDefine