Pulitzer Prize winning author David E. Hoffman has written a “riveting” biography of leading dissident Oswaldo Payá – ‘Cuba’s Vaclav Havel’ – whose Varela Project defied Fidel Castro’s Communist regime,… Read more »
The democratic recession was “hotly contested” in a striking surge of protests across the world in 2021, new research suggests. Whereas 2020 demonstrated the resilience of protests amid the coronavirus pandemic,… Read more »
There is one week left to apply for the 2021-2022 Cohort of the Penn Kemble Forum on Democracy! Applications will only remain open until July 14, 2021. Drawing on the expertise of… Read more »
The global protest wave is a roiling tide driven by a dauntingly diverse array of factors, including the travails of democracy and autocracy alike, the shortcomings of both market and… Read more »
Across the border from Hong Kong, the Chinese Communist Party screams its presence with banners and slogans on nearly every street. Yet in the former British colony, where China’s ruling… Read more »
A new tide of people power is rising in Africa, according to analysts Zoe Marks, Erica Chenoweth and Jide Okeke. On April 2, a nonviolent resistance movement in Algeria succeeded in pressuring Abdelaziz… Read more »
Europe is facing a threat “greater than any since the 1930s: a challenge to liberal democracy and its values,” according to 30 leading European intellectuals. “In response to the nationalist and… Read more »
Several dozen people gathered outside a Future Movement office in Beirut’s Al-Tariq al-Jadideh area Thursday to demand payments. A source told The Daily Star that the protesters were staff hired… Read more »
Labor unrest is on the rise in China, driven by its economic slowdown and rising expectations for wages and labor rights, and exacerbated by problems in both local governance… Read more »
