Twenty years ago, the peaceful Rose Revolution was about to transform Georgia, shake the region and put the Kremlin on alert, but between protests Nini Gogiberidze, a co-founder of the Kmara… Read more »
USAID Director Samantha Power sees the story of Ukraine’s struggles as part of a global test for American values, Bret Stephens writes for The New York Times. “This is… Read more »
Almost no one thought that an underdog political reformer could defeat Guatemala’s corrupt political machine, but Bernardo Arévalo did just that, say analysts Will Freeman and Lucas Perelló. Now comes the hard… Read more »
Political corruption poses a serious threat to democracy and its consolidation, according to analyst Alina Mungiu-Pippidi. Many anticorruption initiatives fail because they are nonpolitical in nature, while most of the… Read more »
Guatemala’s highest court issued a temporary injunction Thursday blocking the controversial suspension of presidential runoff candidate Bernardo Arévalo’s progressive Movimiento Semilla (Seed Movement), reports suggest. Late Wednesday, a judge had… Read more »
Leaders of the world’s richest democracies agreed on Friday to stiffen sanctions against Russia, while a draft communique to be issued after their talks in the Japanese city of Hiroshima… Read more »
President Joseph Biden used the occasion of this week’s Summit for Democracy to announce a plan to spend an additional $690 million on his Presidential Initiative for Democratic Renewal, an… Read more »
Bola Tinubu, a wealthy kleptocratic “godfather” of politics who campaigned on the slogan “It’s my turn”, has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s disputed presidential election, The [London] Times reports…. Read more »
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February made democracy’s defense a priority of the highest geopolitical as well as normative order, says a new report. It propelled commitments to protect democracy… Read more »
The president of the European Parliament has warned that “European democracy is under attack”, following allegations that Qatar bribed EU officials to win influence, the BBC reports: Roberta Metsola said… Read more »