America has done well by supporting Ukraine. It is a situation of unusual strategic gain, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder: Ukrainians are fulfilling the entire NATO mission by themselves, absorbing… Read more »
When Gazans were polled by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Palestine’s most authoritative opinion-research firm, just before the aborted P.A. legislative elections in May, 2021, Hamas barely… Read more »
The challenges of holding a vote in wartime are both small and big—and often unexpected, says analyst Fabrice Deprez. As discussions heat up over whether Ukraine should hold elections in wartime,… Read more »
IN THE AFTERMATH of a devastating war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (above) will have to rebuild and fortify not only Ukraine’s cities and infrastructure but also its democracy, analysts Henry… Read more »
Ukraine’s killing fields hold three big lessons for democracies regarding the technological transformation of conflict, says a special report from The Economist: The first is that the battlefield is becoming… Read more »
Vladimir Putin looks like a blundering thug in the hollowed-out gangland to which he has reduced Russia. The Wagner Group mutiny has exposed his growing weakness https://t.co/PEg9J0bpCl pic.twitter.com/NMsHv0VgMC — The… Read more »
12/ It serves as a call to action for the international community to address the growing influence of fascist ideologies within Russia and support Ukraine in its struggle for sovereignty… Read more »
The “realists” who want to pressure Ukraine to trade territory for peace are wrong to believe that doing so would work, according to Syracuse University’s Renée de Nevers and Brian… Read more »
The long decline of global democracy stalled in 2022, according to the latest edition of the Democracy Index from The Economist Intelligence Unit, Frontline democracy and the battle for Ukraine:… Read more »
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February made democracy’s defense a priority of the highest geopolitical as well as normative order, says a new report. It propelled commitments to protect democracy… Read more »