A collapse of Tunisia’s democratic experiment would be unfortunate for its citizens and all of MENA, which badly needs new political models, Carnegie’s Michele Dunne observes. But such a failure is… Read more »
@DamonMacWilson head of @NEDemocracy and members of @Artlords paint a wall mural in Tirana, Albania, Thursday Dec. 16, 2021. https://t.co/9jzCEmZw6c via @reflectornews — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) December 17, 2021 A… Read more »
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried. The maxim, made famous by Winston Churchill, was actually expressed six months earlier by… Read more »
Tunisian President Kais Saied this week announced a schedule for a new constitutional referendum, to be followed by elections to restore the parliament he disbanded in July. “The United States… Read more »
North Korea has publicly executed at least seven people in the past decade for watching or distributing K-pop videos from South Korea, as it cracks down on what its leader, Kim Jong-un,… Read more »
This week’s jailing of Pham Doan Trang, who has been called Vietnam’s “most famous activist”, was “a searing indictment of everything that is wrong with authoritarian Vietnam today,” said Phil Robertson, deputy… Read more »
The COVID pandemic has put tremendous strain on Latin American citizens and governments, testing the resilience of democracy. The good news coming from valuable new survey data is that the… Read more »
Seventeen African countries were invited to join the virtual “Summit for Democracy” due to take place this week, including Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, notes John J Stremlau, Honorary… Read more »
Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold a virtual meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, as both countries face mounting diplomatic pressure from the West. The meeting, announced on… 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 »