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The second episode of the CO3 Project is fresh out of the oven! This episode focuses on resilience, featuring expert insights from Ruzha Smilova  Program Director (Political Analysis) at the Centre for Liberal Strategies .   According to Smilova, there is a gap in contemportary social contract theories, which leaves little conceptual or normative space for the concept of personal desert. This concept has nothing to do with something sweet you eat at the end of a meal. Inst

Essay by Emre Erdoğan, professor and CO3-associated researcher at İstanbul Bilgi University. On the 29th of October, as Türkiye celebrates the 102nd day of the Republic of Türkiye, it is timelier than ever to reflect on its accomplishments and the significant challenges it faces. Established in 1923 from the remnants of an empire, the Republic was built on a bold promise: a unified nation of citizens, equal under the law, committed to secular modernization, and bound by a sh

The University of Applied Sciences Fulda in Germany is inviting scholars to contribute to the international conference Thinking Beyond Crisis: Social Contracts and Democracy in Times of the Anthropocene , which will take place from December 16 to 18, 2025, at the University of Applied Sciences Fulda, Fulda, Germany. The conference aims to connect two pressing debates in the social sciences and humanities: the crisis of liberal democracy and the challenges of the Anthropocene.

CO3 has launched its very own podcast. The podcast is available on Spotify In this first episode, Dr. Anna Björk , Leading Researcher and...

At CO3, researchers from all over Europe are exploring social contracts — often understood as the foundational agreement between citizens...

By Emilia Palonen, Alexander Alekseev , Kleber Carrilho and Vaibhav Agarwal   The last European Parliament election took place across...

Modern social contract theories are moving beyond the one-shot, idealized frameworks.