Pandemic geopolitics are intensifying investments in pro-democracy civic capacities and democracies’ societal resilience, according to a new report from the Carnegie Endowment. Developments are beginning to condition many states’ domestic… Read more »
Less than a year into his controversial third term in office, Guinea’s president, Alpha Condé, was ousted last week in a military coup, note analysts Carolyn Logan, Aliou Barry and Josephine… Read more »
Emergency measures to curtail the coronavirus pandemic took tolls on democratic freedoms around the world last year, with setbacks in the West even as some Asian countries made progress, a… Read more »
The uprisings of the Arab Spring seemed to represent a dramatic turning point in history, the sudden collapse of regimes and political systems few expected to be so fragile. But… Read more »
If the democratic world is going to mount a successful defense against authoritarian states’ efforts to rewrite global norms in their own favor, NATO and EU nations must make up… Read more »
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) vacancies include: Program Officer, Eastern Europe (Belarus) Program Officer, Southeast Europe (Albania & Kosovo) Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa (Turkey) Senior Manager, Eurasia (South… Read more »
With democracy backsliding and authoritarian countries flexing their muscles, the United States should accelerate efforts to help established democracies succeed and assist states undergoing democratic transitions, says a new analysis…. Read more »
The Covid pandemic in Africa could well become a political emergency that threatens the democratic progress that countries across the continent have achieved in recent years, argue Alan Doss and… Read more »
The four-day plenum of China’s Communist Party (CCP) is being held amid a deteriorating global economy, historically tense ties between China and the US, and an increasingly difficult international environment… Read more »
Just as the leaders of the Soviet Union were aware that the regime was ideologically bankrupt, Iran’s ruling elite knows that the Islamic Republic’s prevailing orthodoxy has no purchase on… Read more »