Post-pandemic political life will likely entail heightened struggles for democracy and a search for new democratic practices that more effectively meet citizens’ needs. That’s one conclusion of a new report… Read more »
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has condemned Russia’s efforts to veto Europe’s largest human rights conference. The OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) requires consensus to take place,… Read more »
The US is the sole democratic superpower, writes FT analyst Martin Wolf. Its ongoing political transformation has deep implications for liberal democracies everywhere, as well as for the world’s ability… Read more »
The attempts by Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro to engineer social media regulation to keep his messages and those of his supporters safe from removal is yet another move which appears… Read more »
China poses a “threat unlike any other” nation in history, according to the chair of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. The United States should strategically partner with allied democracies on… Read more »
With liberalism in crisis, many governments feel free to find their own way of doing things that may have little to do with Western liberal thinking, analysts Vuk Vuksanovic and Marko… Read more »
China is not content to control civil society within its own borders. Given the role of NGOs in advancing human rights globally and drawing attention to China’s human rights crimes,… Read more »
Has Venezuela’s social and cultural pluralism resisted Chavismo’s efforts at cooptation to provide an alternative to an authoritarian regime or does the country face only dim scenarios? Think tanks and… Read more »
Jailed Belarusian opposition figure Maryya Kalesnikava has won the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize awarded annually by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to honor “outstanding” civil… Read more »
Democracy is not self-repairing. It requires constant attention, notes Fiona Hill, the Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe. No country, no… Read more »