In response [to the authoritarian resurgence], we’ve seen an unprecedented number of mass pro-democratic social movements rising up to resist the autocratic tide, says Erica Chenoweth. Many of these—in places… Read more »
History has accelerated; the impossible has become possible. Shifts that no one imagined two weeks ago are unfolding with incredible speed, notes Anne Applebaum, the author of Twilight of Democracy: The… Read more »
Contrary to claims that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spells the end of the postwar international order, the reverse is true, argues Kori Schake, the director of foreign and defense policy at… Read more »
China is increasingly taking the lead in the ideological confrontation with the US over democracy and human rights, with Russia tacitly showing its conformity to Beijing’s philosophy, notes Ahmed Aboudouh,… Read more »
The experience of Afghanistan over the past 20 years illustrates the problems and contradictions inherent in the democracy-promotion agenda, The Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual Democracy Index asserts. The issue of… Read more »
Most, if not all, policymakers in the democratic West have learned that not sufficiently countering Russian revanchism taught Vladimir Putin that he could get away with more aggression, say the… Read more »
China today used the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics to present an image of a global power whose authoritarian style of government can go head-to-head with a world dominated… Read more »
After the 1953 uprising against East Germany’s Communist regime, Bertolt Brecht wrote the satirical poem “Die Lösung” (The Solution): After the uprising of the 17th of June The Secretary of the Writers’ Union… Read more »
Millions of lives were lost just in the 20th century as a result of failed attempts to create an independent Ukrainian state, says Olga Tokariuk, an independent journalist and researcher… 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 »