South Sudan conflict calls for firm intervention
A peace plan for South Sudan that was intended to end three years of fighting in the world’s newest nation has failed largely because it “depends on the cooperation of… Read more »
Tag: National Endowment for Democracy
South Africa lurching between democracy and despotism
Jacob Zuma presides over a political paradox, argues Richard Calland, associate professor in public law at the University of Cape Town. The nation he leads is at long last becoming… Read more »
Gay Cuban journalist dismissed, as Farinas hunger strike continues
A gay Cuban journalist and activist says he was fired from a government-run radio station because he worked with independent media, The Washington Blade reports: Maykel González Vivero (left) hosted… Read more »
MidEast governments’ hostility to foreign analysts prompts protest
Middle Eastern governments and media are demonstrating increasing hostility to foreign researchers and journalists, according to an open letter signed by a group of distinguished scholars, academics, journalists, and… Read more »
Cuba censoring text messages with words like ‘democracy’
Cuban dissidents said Monday that Raúl Castro’s communist government is censoring mobile text messages that contain certain words, including “democracy” and “human rights,” Reuters reports: Text messages that included… Read more »
North Korea will change only when it fears regime survival
North Korea will change its course only when international pressure could work in a way to make Pyongyang concerned about the very existence of its regime, a former U.S. diplomat… Read more »
Confronting the challenge of ‘state fragility’
For more than two decades, addressing fragility has been an evolving bipartisan priority for U.S. policymakers. Yet growing understanding and consensus about the problem has failed to generate the… Read more »
US investigating Russian plan to subvert November elections
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are investigating what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election… Read more »
Post-election violence returns to haunt Gabon
Security forces in Gabon have arrested more than 1,000 people during a second day of violence following disputed presidential elections, the BBC reports: Three people were killed in clashes in… Read more »
Fukuyama on the ‘Children of Men’
Join Francis Fukuyama for a screening and discussion of Children of Men, the haunting 2006 adaptation of PD James’ dystopian novel (directed by Alfonso Cuarón) set in 2027, when all… Read more »