Facing one of the clearest domestic threats to the U.S. in a decade, neither the F.B.I., which has the responsibility for conducting counterintelligence inside the United States, nor the O.D.N.I…. Read more »
As Ukraine’s oligarchic status quo re-asserts its power, the country’s international partners need to step up their support for democracy, says Sergii Leshchenko, a Ukrainian journalist and a member of… Read more »
Vladimir Putin’s often arbitrary rule has “substantially retarded the growth of a rule of law state,” observers suggest. Even during the late Soviet period – after the party had come to… Read more »
Globally, democracy is at a crossroads. How resilient is democracy in the face of current challenges? The Global State of Democracy assesses the state of democracy worldwide, with the aim of… Read more »
The story of Sergei Magnitsky’s 2009 death is an allegory of Vladimir Putin’s Russia – brutal, corrupt, and oppressive, The Henry Jackson Society notes: The 37-year-old accountant was tortured, denied… Read more »
The last two weeks have seen Britain’s gravest secret finally break into the public domain: that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. The fact that such an operation happened is… Read more »
In recent years, the Sahel region of Africa has experienced increasing levels of insecurity and instability. Violent extremist groups such as Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) continuously target civilian populations… Read more »
Russian President Vladimir Putin has some key allies in the European Union. In some countries, they are outliers, even fringe elements. But in Hungary, a nation of about 10 million people… Read more »
In a Russian court hearing yesterday, human rights defender Semyon Simonov (left) faced police officers who had detained him in April in the southern city of Volgograd. Simonov had been… Read more »
Liberalism is in trouble. Initially a set of values that advanced individual rights and tolerance as a hallmark of a well-governed society, liberalism came to embrace a laissez-faire economic… Read more »