History tells us war is a question of will, @general_ben tells @FukuyamaFrancis @americanpurpose. One reason why #Ukraine will defeat #Russia in the coming months & threaten their position in #Crimea…. Read more »
In Central and Eastern Europe, experience shows that democratization has better chances where linkages to the West are strong and ideological alternatives, such as Russian-style “managed democracy” or authoritarianism, are weak,… Read more »
It was a tense and confusing night after election polls closed in Turkey yesterday, The Guardian’s Constanze Letsch writes. The official result is still unclear, but a runoff between the president,… Read more »
With Moscow’s barbaric aggression against Ukraine, Russia has experienced a quick return to almost Stalinist-era levels of repression, says former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky. New laws have made it impossible… Read more »
There seems little to celebrate on World Press Freedom Day, given how journalists find themselves under constant assault and press freedom is being eroded around the world, The Washington Post… Read more »
Does Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine highlight the paradox of the dictator who plots a path to their own downfall? Dictators who combine emphasis on loyalty with repression of opposition… Read more »
Putin’s ill-fated war in Ukraine risks the complete annihilation of the myth of autocratic competence, notes Kathryn Stoner, the Mosbacher Director of Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the… Read more »
Last Saturday, just hours after Xi Jinping sipped tea with Emmanuel Macron while calling for peace in Ukraine, fighter jets flew across the Taiwan Strait in a display of Chinese… Read more »
As competition (or even conflict) with Russia and China deepens, the US may see an advantage in returning democracy and human rights promotion to the first tier of policy instruments… Read more »
In Cuba, elections are neither the means to select governments nor a channel for citizens to communicate their views, CIVICUS reports. Rather, they serve a legitimizing purpose, both domestically and… Read more »