China is approaching “world domination” and Europe is neglecting the danger, according to the former head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND). Europe “hardly notices” Beijing’s attempts to increase its… Read more »
Extreme intolerance has replaced the liberal notion of negotiated compromise that is the sine qua non of democracy, argues Andrew A. Michta, dean of the College of International and… Read more »
Ruling parties within established democracies such as Hungary, India, Poland and Turkey are becoming markedly more illiberal, according to a new international study. The median governing party is becoming more… Read more »
Factory workers, students and business owners in Belarus on Monday began a strike to demand that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko resign after more than two months of continuing mass protests… Read more »
People power, which democratized countries from South Korea and Poland in the 1980s to Georgia and Ukraine in the 2000s and Tunisia in 2010, has been on a losing streak. That’s… Read more »
Thailand’s parliament will hold a special session today to discuss the state of the country following weeks of protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and for… Read more »
The four-day plenum of China’s Communist Party (CCP) is being held amid a deteriorating global economy, historically tense ties between China and the US, and an increasingly difficult international environment… Read more »
Nasrin Sotoudeh has devoted her life to speaking out against the injustices of the Iranian regime’s systematic violations of human rights, women’s rights, the rights of minorities, political rights, the… Read more »
In a bipartisan initiative, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) this week called on the… Read more »
The new great power competition is driven by geo–political change as other regions of the world are rising to greater economic strength and international influence alongside that of ‘the West’…. Read more »