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 »
Forging a global coalition for freedom will help turn the tides of tyranny and prevent the emergence of a world in which authoritarian leaders set the rules of the road,… Read more »
The Internet once held great promise as a means of empowering individuals, but it has become yet another path of control for bad actors, note analysts Anthony Vinci and Nadia… Read more »
In threatening Ukraine, the goal of the Russian Federation is to attack European democracy, the country’s Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova told CBS News. “The reason why Putin attacked… Read more »
“Faster, higher, bossier” typifies China’s approach to the Winter Olympics, The Economist reports. The Olympic movement has sold its soul by not challenging China on human rights abuses, observers suggest…. Read more »
President Biden’s democracy promotion agenda includes an anti-corruption strategy with provisions for establishing a kleptocracy asset recovery rewards program to identify illicit funds held in US banks, notes Elizabeth… Read more »
The Central American country has defied many assumptions of political science to produce one of the world’s most impressive trajectories of the past three decades, resulting in a notably resilient… Read more »
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s entire attitude towards the democratic world changed following the Orange Revolution, says Taras Kuzio, a Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London and author… Read more »
Does Alexei Navalny embody the best chance for democratic change inside Russia since the crumbling of the USSR? Just over a year ago, on 17 January 2021, Navalny was arrested… Read more »
The Summit for Democracy’s Presidential Initiative for Democratic Renewal dedicates $424.4 million to defend and strengthen democracy. Nowhere is this more pressing than in the 57 countries considered fragile by… Read more »