Today’s India is an “illiberal democracy”. Freedom House, the US think-tank, puts it at the same level as Hungary. But it rates the components differently: political rights, notably electoral politics,… Read more »
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi rose to power in 2014, his government has engaged in what is, by some accounts, a wholesale dismantling of democratic institutions, norms, and practices, The Journal… Read more »
Facebook’s parent company Meta announced Wednesday that it has taken down a network of more than 100 China-based accounts that posed as organizations in the US and Europe and pushed… Read more »
There are at least three factors fueling the new nationalism, argues MIT Economics Professor Daron Acemoglu: First, many of the affected countries have historical grievances. India was systematically exploited by the… Read more »
When it comes to the war in Ukraine, India is something of an outlier among the world’s democracies, notes Lisa Curtis, Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center… Read more »
The Indo-Pacific is quickly becoming the most important region for democracy support activities, as it embodies both growing support for democracy and recent evidence of backsliding, according to a new… Read more »
India’s democratic malaise is by now well documented, notes James Crabtree, executive director of IISS-Asia and author of ‘The Billionaire Raj’. The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which… Read more »
As of today, Amnesty International will no longer be able to work inside India. Following years of official threats, intimidation and harassment, Amnesty India’s accounts have been frozen without… Read more »
🇮🇳 | Polarization in #India is more toxic today than it has been in decades, and it shows no signs of abating.@SNiranjansahoo with Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Donohue in… Read more »
The Quad is acquiring strategic content: Australia and India today unveiled their Mutual Logistics Support Arrangement to strengthen cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and help build military interoperability. India has… Read more »