Ukrainian officials and civil society leaders say no effective elections can be held amid a Russian invasion that now occupies about 18 percent of Ukraine’s territory and has uprooted at least 11 million… Read more »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the Ukraine Recovery Conference (above) that “democracy paves the way for the rule of law”. He said resources and land were not the only… Read more »
Democracy deteriorated in the 29-state region stretching from Central Europe to Central Asia in 2022, according to the latest Nations in Transit report from Freedom House. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine… Read more »
Russia’s war in Ukraine has drawn Western allies closer together, but it has not unified the world’s democracies in the way U.S. President Joe Biden might have hoped for when… Read more »
Ukraine does not want to be at war with Russia. Nor do we. But it has become increasingly clear that Russia decided a long time ago that it is at… Read more »
The actions taken and the lessons learned in Ukraine will inform larger efforts to reinforce democracies against external aggression, argues Iulian Romanyshyn, a senior fellow at the University of Bonn’s Center… Read more »
Africa is grappling with democratic backsliding, according to recent studies. In 1985 there were only three democracies while there were 42 authoritarian regimes on the continent. By 2015, the number… Read more »
Russia conducted more cyberattacks than was realized at the time to bolster its invasion of Ukraine, but more than two-thirds of them failed, echoing its poor performance on the battlefield,… Read more »
Disinformation affects democratic systems by lowering the deliberative quality of society which in turn accelerates citizens’ alienation from democracy, say analysts Christoph Deppe and Gary S. Schaal. Press coverage of the poisoning… 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 »