Asia’s democracies are threatened by a growing source of strategic instability at the sub-state level, as increasing religiosity and extremist ideologies gain momentum in the national consciousness of several countries in… Read more »
How resilient is the Islamic Republic of Iran? asks analyst Eric Lob. The answer to this question is that the future survival of the Islamic republic is tenuous at best… Read more »
Kenya is facing a period of ‘dangerous limbo’ ahead of the official election result, observers suggest. Hackers broke into election commission computer systems and databases overnight, claims Kenya’s opposition… Read more »
Moscow has perpetrated cyberwarfare, hacking, fake news and political interference for years, notes Leon Aron, director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Judging by all this—and especially by… Read more »
Polish President Andrzej Duda, who fell out with the ruling party last month over judicial reform, risked escalating tension by blocking army appointments proposed by the NATO member’s government, Bloomberg… Read more »
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s concern is not just the Russian media outlets that spread disinformation, says Simon Hegelich, a professor of political science at the Technical University of Munich. It… Read more »
Life in post-Dayton Bosnia is determined by the constitutional idea of two nations living side by side but never coming into contact with one another. It is a model that… Read more »
Call for Applications! The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program is an international exchange program that offers activists, scholars and journalists from around the world the opportunity to spend five months at… Read more »
Is a commitment to advancing democracy consistent with an “America First” approach to foreign policy? History would suggest so. Over the years 1948-1952, the US devoted $130 billion in current… Read more »
Although repression has mounted, grassroots activism in China has not disappeared, notes Diana Fu, Assistant Professor of Asian Politics at the University of Toronto. Instead, it has taken more creative… Read more »