Ukraine on its way to the West
The European Union’s decision to grant EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova is a historic turning point both for the former Soviet republics as well as for the EU. Ukraine… Read more »
Category: Central/Eastern Europe
‘Goulash Authoritarianism’: Hungary’s informational autocracy
Experts have described Hungary’s Viktor Orbán as a new-school despot, a soft autocrat, an anocrat, and a reactionary populist. Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of international affairs at Princeton, has… Read more »
How Ukraine renewed democracy as a foreign policy priority
As Ukraine defends its right to self-determination and freedom, it has become a symbol of the fight between democracy and dictatorship and has renewed the importance of democracy as a… Read more »
Can Putin Survive?
The thinking behind the assumption that the war in Ukraine may prompt an elite coup or mass protests that depose Vladimir Putin is based on a faulty reading of history,… Read more »
Ukraine’s civil society adapts to ‘war between systems’
The war in Ukraine “is an inflection point,” said Jonas Parello-Plesner, executive director at the Alliance of Democracies. “It is not just Ukraine’s fight but a fight for liberal democracy,”… Read more »
What if Ukraine wins?
A full-scale Ukrainian military defeat of Russia, including the retaking of Crimea, verges on fantasy and it would be far too optimistic to base either Ukrainian or Western strategy on… Read more »
Don’t neglect the civil side of Ukraine war, analyst warns
It is dangerous for the U.S., NATO, the EU, and America’s broader range of strategic partners to focus on the military dimensions of the Ukraine War and to fail focusing… Read more »
Ukraine on the frontline: Can democracies stop tyranny?
This year’s Globsec Bratislava Forum takes place “on the frontline of democracy,” said the group’s president Robert Vass. Just 500km away, “people are paying the highest price for values… Read more »
Recognizing resilience: Ukraine war’s implications for global democracy
“Ukraine has always aspired to be free”, Voltaire wrote back in the eighteenth-century. He knew that most of his French readers could barely find this “unknown land” on a map,… Read more »
History at a turning point: Who is Putin fighting in Ukraine?
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has inspired Ukrainians and won global respect and praise for his courage and defiance in resisting Russia’s devastating invasion of his country, Reuters reports. Refusing to leave Ukraine’s capital… Read more »