New US-China Cold War is ‘desirable’ or ‘not inevitable’?
In the year before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, campuses in China buzzed with debate about how to make the country more liberal. To some intellectuals the West offered… Read more »
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How civil society impacts democratization
Successful democratic transitions are not driven by specialist pro-democracy NGOs, but by ‘durable’ groups such as labor unions which address everyday, mundane needs rather than compete for political power, research… Read more »
How to cultivate media resilience
The technological revolution and the failure of free-market competition to protect factual reporting have left news outlets—particularly smaller players—increasingly vulnerable to authoritarians’ sharp-power influence campaigns, notes Edward Lucas, senior nonresident fellow… Read more »
China’s Winter Olympics: Hard choices for the world’s democracies?
Chinese authorities have detained two prominent human-rights activists, quietly intensifying a crackdown on dissent weeks before Beijing hosts the most politicized Winter Olympics in recent memory, The Wall Street Journal… Read more »
Four dynamics drive surge of protests contesting democratic recession
The democratic recession was “hotly contested” in a striking surge of protests across the world in 2021, new research suggests. Whereas 2020 demonstrated the resilience of protests amid the coronavirus pandemic,… Read more »
Political decay and the ‘demand side’ of democratic backsliding
The Third Wave expansion of global democracy was underpinned by the success and durability of democracy in the United States itself — what the political scientist Joseph Nye labels its… Read more »
Hacking marks Poland’s crisis of democracy
Donald Tusk, the leader of Poland’s main opposition party, called Tuesday for the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate surveillance after reports that powerful spyware was used against three… Read more »
China’s ideological ‘spamouflage’ exploits asymmetry with West
Beijing’s top diplomat in Hong Kong has said the city’s democratic development must be guided by the central government, adding it was time to wake up from the “American-style democracy… Read more »
Why the Soviet Union collapsed
Russian lawmakers want to declare the fall of the Soviet Union three decades ago “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” The proposal submitted Monday by the right-wing nationalist Liberal Democratic… Read more »
Hong Kong activists ‘channeling the spirit’ of Vaclav Havel
“I have chosen to live a life of truth,” Lee Cheuk-yan (above), chairperson of the group behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen vigil, said in an unapologetic mitigation statement before being jailed earlier this… Read more »