Rather than looking for American or European parallels, Michelle Carmody argues, Jair Bolsonaro's rise to power is best understood in the context of Brazil's own Cold War past.
With the World Cup underway in Putin’s Russia, Raanan Rein looks back forty years to the controversies surrounding the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, and the transnational solidarity campaign that sprang up in response.
Gareth Stedman Jones reflects on the history of referenda, and the ways they can be used to bring about unconstitutional or unscrupulous changes in government.
