How China is slowly squeezing Taiwan
One big worry for the Taiwanese government is the increasingly authoritarian and opaque nature of Beijing politics, which makes it harder to assess what drives Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s decisions… Read more »
Young Latin Americans disturbingly open to autocrats
In the latest edition of Latinobarómetro, respondents were asked to rate their approval of 17 named leaders on a scale of one to ten. In 15 of the 17 countries… Read more »
EU rewards Tunisia’s authoritarian drift?
The European Union signed a major deal with Tunisia on Sunday, promising the North African country as much as €1 billion ($1.12 bn) in investment, financial aid and loans in… Read more »
Chilling Legislation: Tracking the impact of “fake news” laws
The spread of misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information (MDM) online has become one of the most pressing issues of our time, according to analysts Gabrielle Lim and Samantha Bradshaw. Around the… Read more »
Democracies face ‘greatest challenge’ since Cold War
Democracies and the rules-based international order are facing their “greatest challenge” since the Cold War, said President Tsai Ing-wen (above), calling for greater cooperation by democracies to counter authoritarian regimes…. Read more »
Re-engage China? Competing ideologies undermine defensive realism’s ‘false promise’
Is the Chinese government about to collapse? Michael Beckley, an associate professor of political science at Tufts University, goes over some common myths and facts about US and China relations:… Read more »
How the West can kill the Wagner virus
George Clooney and John Prendergast on how the West can kill the Wagner virus https://t.co/PGI4wzZAzC from @TheEconomist - @IanECox – mentions Sudan but word #Darfur is absent https://t.co/PGI4wzZAzC — AfriCommons… Read more »
Applications Deadline Approaching! 2023-2024 Penn Kemble Fellowship
Applications for the 2023-2024 Penn Kemble Fellowship, based at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), are now open until July 26, 2023. Please read the instructions below and find the… Read more »
Democratic renewal from ‘largely seamless transition’
Michael Reid’s “Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country,” reminds us that post-Franco democracy was “not imposed by conquering foreign armies, as in Germany or Italy” after… Read more »
‘Technical coup’ means more trouble for Guatemala’s democracy
Guatemala’s highest court issued a temporary injunction Thursday blocking the controversial suspension of presidential runoff candidate Bernardo Arévalo’s progressive Movimiento Semilla (Seed Movement), reports suggest. Late Wednesday, a judge had… Read more »