Ukraine needs a measured lustration policy to strengthen security and rebuild its democracy, say analysts Geoff Dancy, Kathryn Sikkink, Mykhailo Soldatenko, and Patrick Vinck. As it has been practiced in… Read more »
Eighty-nine schoolgirls and their teachers were hospitalized (NYT) with respiratory and neurological symptoms in a suspected incident of poisoning at two girls’ schools over the weekend. There is a fiery… Read more »
Facebook’s faces a litmus test in Cambodia, notes Fiona Kelliher, a freelance journalist covering politics, human rights, and digital authoritarianism in Southeast Asia. A company verdict on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s… Read more »
The lack of a long-term vision keeps Washington’s China policies confused, according to Liza Tobin, a senior director for economy at the Special Competitive Studies Project, and Michael Auslin, a fellow… Read more »
As democratic norms erode in Tunisia, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers wants to ensure proposed aid cuts don’t undermine the very civil society actors seeking to reverse the North African… Read more »
As the war in Ukraine enters yet another phase with the coming Ukrainian offensive, it is clear that China is positioning itself to benefit from the outcome regardless of which… Read more »
“The world’s long freedom recession may be bottoming out,” according to the latest Freedom House report. The 2022 survey found that global improvements in freedom nearly equaled global declines, researchers… Read more »
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan beat back the greatest political challenge of his career on Sunday, securing victory in a presidential runoff that granted five more years to a mercurial leader… Read more »
There is an urgent need for the peaceful transformation of autocratic and pseudo-democratic political regimes, say analysts Suha Hassen and Jonathan Pinckney. The vision of a just, peaceful, and rights-respecting… Read more »
Thousands of ethnic minority Muslims surrounded a mosque in southwestern China over the weekend in a last-ditch effort to prevent what they said was an attempt by authorities to remove… Read more »