Japan emerging as champion of liberal democratic order?
Japan is beginning to confront whether it wants to assert itself as a regional leader and carry on the values that have long been the foundation of American policy, The… Read more »
Trial reveals infighting within Kremlin kleptocracy
Signs of Kremlin infighting surfaced on Wednesday as Alexei Ulyukaev, the former Russian minister of economic development, told a Moscow court that Igor Sechin, the head of the state oil company Rosneft, had… Read more »
West ‘losing the war of ideas’ against extremist ideology
After more than a decade, efforts to counter the ideology of terrorist networks by the United States and its partners have yet to accrue a tangible return on investment, according… Read more »
North Korea diplomacy ‘may come at cost of human rights’
Will diplomacy with North Korea come at the cost to human rights? The Committee of Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), a non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC, set up… Read more »
Malaysia’s anti-corruption campaign is also a fight for democracy
Malaysia’s anti-corruption commission has been making lots of headlines lately. Its agents have been carrying out high-profile arrests of government officials accused of bribery and influence-peddling. You’d think that… Read more »
Aung San Suu Kyi’s media dilemma: authoritarian or caution?
Aung San Suu Kyi is treating the press in Myanmar poorly, and that may impede her efforts to democratize the conflict-wrought country, Reuters reports: But is Suu Kyi’s apparent authoritarian… Read more »
China: When the Law Meets the Party
Like an army defeated but undestroyed, China’s decades-long human rights movement keeps reassembling its lines after each disastrous loss, miraculously fielding new forces in the battle against an illiberal state…. Read more »
Freedom of Expression and the Judiciary: Lessons from Latin America
All but one of the 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have constitutional guarantees or laws that protect freedom of expression as a fundamental right, and in… Read more »
Don’t let repression tarnish Kenya’s ‘fairest election’
Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga is expected to announce his strategy Wednesday for contesting his election loss, having further delayed a decision that could defuse or exacerbate tensions in the… Read more »
How to stop ceding propaganda war to Russia
The United States has recently been ridiculed for losing the ongoing information war, and has fallen victim to successive propaganda and disinformation campaigns orchestrated by Russia without a significant response. Given Russia’s… Read more »