Cubazuela ‘adversaries’ decapitate opposition
The U.S. Department of Energy has determined that Cuba and Venezuela are “foreign adversaries” that might target the U.S. electrical grid, The Miami Herald reports: The executive order aims… Read more »
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Democratic innovation key to strategy for shaping post-COVID world
While a recent global initiative cautioned that autocrats are exploiting the pandemic to erode democratic values and institutions, COVID-19 may yet allow the “re-imagining and strengthening of democracy” through innovative… Read more »
Defending against the weaponization of corruption
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is facing one of the worst coronavirus epidemics in the world, an ongoing corruption investigation, and a procession of ministers deserting his cabinet. To top… Read more »
The ongoing democratic experiment: Reason for hope
Recent trends – not last democratic backsliding and autocratic resurgence – are enough to make one think that David Stasavage’s new book should have been about the rise and subsequent… Read more »
How Covid-19 may ’embed’ the new authoritarianism
The Covid-19 pandemic has been talked of as a historical rupture, igniting system change. Yet, the nature of the new world being born is still far from certain, and this… Read more »
Uighur Human Rights Policy Act addresses ‘stain of the century’
The new Uighur Human Rights Policy Act, which passed the Senate and House unanimously, drew a furious response from Beijing on Thursday during a delicate moment when Secretary of State… Read more »
Challenging the ‘Retrenchment Syndrome’
Retrenchment may hold emotional appeal for Americans tired of protracted military commitments abroad, but blind adherence to an orthodoxy based on emotion rather than reason would make Americans less safe… Read more »
Hong Kong: ‘Silence is Compliance’
More than one million Uighurs have been disappeared into China’s internment camps in Xinjiang province according to UN estimates. An exclusive Deutsche Welle investigation (above) reveals how many were tried… Read more »
Beijing calling democracies’ bluff on Hong Kong?
China has launched rule by fear in Hong Kong https://t.co/tLFJPQg6Ax — The Economist (@TheEconomist) June 3, 2020 China’s Communist Party is calculating that control and stability outweigh the benefits… Read more »
Post-Covid foreign policy: What place for democratic values?
The end of 2019 marked the 14th consecutive year of decline in global freedom, but also a wave of popular movements from Iraq to Hong Kong to Venezuela demanding accountable… Read more »