First Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond (above) has sought to assure the rest of the world that an independent Scotland would be another Norway—a wealthy mediator,… Read more »
Francis Fukuyama’s “Political Order and Political Decay,” a whirlwind tour of modern political development from the French Revolution to the present, is nothing if not ambitious, says Columbia University’s Sheri… Read more »
Kiev has lost eastern Ukraine to Russia, says a leading analyst. The turning point came on August 27, as the first direct invasion of Ukraine by Russian regulars broke the… Read more »
The NATO summit meeting last week in Wales was dominated by Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. The rift with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was… Read more »
Dissident writer and human rights legal activist Guo Feixiong (left), was detained in August of 2013, formally arrested two months later for “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place,” and… Read more »
President Obama on Wednesday authorized a major expansion of the military campaign against rampaging Sunni militants in the Middle East, including American airstrikes in Syria and the deployment of 475… Read more »
The invention of Novorossiya is a sign of Russia’s domestic system of information manipulation going global, says Peter Pomerantsev. Today’s Russia has been shaped by political technologists—the viziers of the… Read more »
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Democracy Digest – a few changes…… Not all Democracy Digest subscribers will be aware that the digest is now principally taking shape as a blog. While we plan to continue… Read more »