Democracy advocates are not only fighting their own country’s authoritarian regimes, but confront affluent autocratic alliances that act more like a business agglomeration – Autocracy, Inc. – than nation states,… Read more »
Prodemocracy protests have been erupting with regularity all over the world in the past several years, from Belarus and Sudan to Hong Kong, Thailand, and Sri Lanka, notes Freedom House… Read more »
The war in Ukraine is generating the dissolution of Russia’s ‘social contract’ under which the regime promised security and stability in exchange for political docility, observers suggest. Putin’s mobilization has… Read more »
Iran’s 6-2 loss to England in the football World Cup has prompted rebukes of the regime and further protests, Bloomberg reports. As their country’s national anthem was played prior to the… Read more »
Align U.S. policy with the universal desire for freedom, but maintain a keen sense of unintended consequences and no illusions of easy success, #GeorgePacker writes for @TheAtlantic https://t.co/ftcw9ZfGZd — Democracy… Read more »
Putin is losing the war against Ukraine, against the West – and at home, but the third front — the one raging in Moscow — matters most, writes CEPA analyst… Read more »
President Xi Jinping used the occasion of his meeting with US President Joe Biden to deny that the “democracy versus authoritarianism” narrative is the defining feature of today’s world, claiming… Read more »
Does Putin really embody what Russia is about? Does a more advanced and stronger Russia always need to be a more aggressive nation against its neighbors? And would Putin’s successor… Read more »
“[E]veryone understands that the regime doesn’t have much time left,” says a former Russian intelligence chief. Many of the Russian cheerleaders of the invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday cast the… Read more »
Very composed #TurbanTossingpic.twitter.com/4Nd1lSeoyN — 1500tasvir_en (@1500tasvir_en) November 9, 2022 Russia’s national security chief visiting Iran discussed Ukraine and ways to combat “Western interference” in their internal affairs with his Iranian… Read more »