On Feb. 17, Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) took his seat before the United Nations Security Council and, in strikingly precise terms, offered his version of the immediate future… Read more »
China is in the vanguard of normalizing autocratic trends, even within advanced liberal democracies like the UK, towards a political system that rests upon rule by law, a near non-existent… Read more »
China is now peaking in its power and is soon to decline, and that makes it especially dangerous, according to Tufts associate professor Michael Beckley, co-author of a new book,… Read more »
Some 98% of Ukrainians believe their country will definitely or likely win the war against Russia, according to the latest public opinion survey conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI). East Ukraine… Read more »
Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s attempts to garner support for his country among other nations amid his widely condemned war in Ukraine demonstrates that Russia is in a “weak position,” according… Read more »
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday that Tunisia’s “dream of self-government” was in danger, adding to U.S. criticism of the president’s expansion of powers that has already prompted… Read more »
The labor movement has played a decisively prodemocratic role, not least as a catalyst for democratic transition in such states as Poland, South Africa, Brazil, and Chile, while Tunisia’s UGTT… Read more »
Before leaving #Taiwan, Mrs. #Pelosi was expected to meet human-rights activists incl Tiananmen protest leader Wu’er Kaixi, fmr Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee & Lee Ming-che, a Taiwanese activist who… Read more »
Will the most consequential event of our time be the heroism of Ukrainian men and women fighting and dying for liberal democracy? Putin calculates that as democracies’ aid to… Read more »
Russia’s descent into corruption and the rise of Putin are a tale that has already been told in books, films, TV documentaries, and podcasts, from the BBC’s Ukrainecast to Tortoise Media’s Invaded: Voicemails… Read more »