Despite 16 years of democratic recession, the transatlantic axis remains the “backbone of the Free World,” according to a leading democracy advocate. Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has shattered the… Read more »
Democracies must shift from a defensive posture in the face of autocratic resurgence and democratic decline, and seize the opportunity to reverse these trends at a potential “inflection point remembered… Read more »
A coalition of forty Ukrainian civil society groups today issued The Kyiv Declaration, a six-point appeal to the West’s democracies, listing urgent humanitarian and military demands. “There is no free… Read more »
It’s one of the few political problems that unites people across the political spectrum and across the globe, notes Ryan Heath of POLITICO’s Global Translations. But how can we actually… Read more »
Digital capabilities are ideologically neutral and can serve authoritarian as well as democratic tendencies, so development donors must be wary of whom they partner with and how they deliver assistance… Read more »
President Joe Biden today acknowledged the United States’ democratic vulnerabilities as he introduced the virtual Summit for Democracy in which government leaders, civil society and the private sector will “set… Read more »
The Biden administration on Monday unveiled steps to combat corruption globally, including assistance to foreign governments to increase financial transparency and new regulations on U.S. real-estate purchases to prevent money… Read more »
Dictators, Inc. The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) hosts a virtual briefing “probing the ties between corporations and dictators” with Vladimir Milov, Russian opposition politician and economist;… Read more »
Defending and advancing democracy is “the cause of our time,” says Damon Wilson, President & CEO of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Democracy has taken hits or is… Read more »
As an increasingly paranoid Kremlin retreats into what one analyst has called Putin’s ‘bunkerisation,’ another highlights the resilience of Russian civil society. A team of Russian state security agents poisoned… Read more »