Raúl Castro lacked the theatrical skills of Fidel Castro, but being a precise and methodological manager, he hand–picked the military inner circle of power, with the close input of retiring… Read more »
It is with great sadness that I share the news that Carlos Alberto Montaner has passed away, writes Aimel Rios Wong, Senior Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean at… Read more »
Vladimir Putin looks like a blundering thug in the hollowed-out gangland to which he has reduced Russia. The Wagner Group mutiny has exposed his growing weakness https://t.co/PEg9J0bpCl pic.twitter.com/NMsHv0VgMC — The… Read more »
As rattled as they may have been by an armed insurrection in a nuclear-weapons state, Russia’s friends and business partners are unlikely to abandon Vladimir Putin, according to diplomats and… Read more »
How did so many autocracies come to adopt the same anti-democratic strategies and repressive methods in the same decade? The Washington Post asks: The answers are difficult to find —… Read more »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the Ukraine Recovery Conference (above) that “democracy paves the way for the rule of law”. He said resources and land were not the only… Read more »
Civil society and human rights groups today issued an open letter to former US President Barack Obama to request assistance in calling for the unconditional release from jail of Obama… Read more »
The post-1989 transformation of Central Europe was often seen as the pinnacle of the Third Wave of Democratization. Now, the region is torn and fragmented along different democratic and illiberal-authoritarian… Read more »
China has launched the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI) — the last of a trio of Xi Jinping’s ideological frameworks — as being central to “cultivating the garden of world civilization,”… Read more »
It’s time to strategically reframe civil society programs in China, substituting “democracy promotion” rhetoric with substantive, non-ideological language such as “civic engagement” and “capacity bridging,” according to a new analysis…. Read more »