Why has COVID-19 exacted its greatest toll in nations that have some claim to being Southeast Asia’s most democratic? asks analyst Sebastian Strangio. The reality is complex than regime type,… Read more »
Nationalist populist movements, fueled by resentment against ruling elites, typically attack the norms and procedures of liberal democracy, viewing them as rigged, corrupted, or under the control of nefarious… Read more »
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The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said the bloc’s credibility on foreign policy “is at stake” after EU foreign ministers again failed to sanction Belarus, Politico reports (HT:CFR). A majority… Read more »
The post-war institutional arrangements at domestic and supranational levels worked exceptionally well, ushering in four decades of democratic flourishing, international peace, macroeconomic stability, and widespread prosperity. Never before have… Read more »
Trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through the global financial system, swamping a broken enforcement system, as major banks allegedly move illicit cash around the world for kleptocrats, corrupt officials,… Read more »
Is religion an antidote to populism or does it facilitate illiberal politics? Can democracy survive without religion? “Religious frameworks for engaging the world have not disappeared, even in the West,… Read more »
The transatlantic alliance needs renewal: a refreshed statement of shared purpose and democratic values, together with new institutions dedicated to shared action, according to David McKean and Bart M. J…. Read more »
The most likely outcome for a post-Covid world order in the decade ahead will not be a unipolar order or a bipolar Cold War-style competition, but a loose multipolarity, according… Read more »
Nathan Law, a leading pro-democracy activist and the youngest lawmaker in Hong Kong’s history, has taken first place in TIME’s readers’ poll of the world’s most influential people, TIME reports:… Read more »