Like Ukraine, the post-Communist countries that joined the E.U. and NATO in the 1990s and 2000s have experienced interference in their domestic politics, energy policy blackmail and disinformation campaigns coming from Russia, but their… Read more »
Following the re-election of Hungary’s Viktor Orban for a fourth consecutive term as prime minister last month, the European Parliament released a draft report characterizing Hungary as a ‘hybrid regime of… Read more »
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday announced the launch of a new program to capture and analyze evidence of war crimes and other atrocities allegedly perpetrated by Russia in Ukraine,… Read more »
The key to understanding why Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine does not necessarily lie in its foreign policy, but rather in its domestic politics, according to Aleksandar Matovksi, assistant professor in the Department… Read more »
The United States and Europe are understandably wary of engaging in direct conflict with Russia, but they can still do more than provide short-term assistance to Ukraine, argues Bruce Ackerman,… Read more »
The Venezuelan opposition faction backed by the United States announced plans Monday to hold a primary contest next year to choose a presidential candidate for the planned 2024 election, AP reports. The… Read more »
Francis Fukuyama‘s widely misinterpreted 1992 book, “The End of History and the Last Man,” was assumed to be a statement of fact rather than the description of a process, Joe… Read more »
Are the authoritarians who grace, or disgrace, our world, from Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Vladimir Putin, more like or unlike their twentieth-century predecessors? Two new books, each with virtues of… Read more »
“Crisis of democracy” is a cliché of our time. But what about the even more consequential crisis of autocracy? Just watch the meltdowns in China, Russia, Turkey and arguably Africa’s… Read more »
In early April, the Kremlin’s goal — the dismantling of Ukraine—was discussed in an article titled “What Should Russia Do with Ukraine?” notes Mariupol-born Olexiy Minakov, a columnist for leading… Read more »