Democracies vs. dictatorships: A grand strategy
While no country gets a perfect score on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), the top performing countries tend to be healthy democracies. The state of democracy in a country indicates… Read more »
Tag: Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
Russia’s ‘Stockholm syndrome’: Stalin nostalgia at all-time high
Soviet — specifically Stalinist — nostalgia is alive and well in Russia, according to a new poll conducted by the Moscow-based Levada Center, The Moscow Times reports: Bloomberg adds that the poll… Read more »
The Right to Memory: ‘excessive demonization’ of dictator?
Historians say millions of Soviet citizens were executed, died in labor camps or were starved to death under Josef Stalin’s dictatorship. But Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that “excessive… Read more »
Awaiting Brazil’s ‘Electoral Tsunami’?
The first round of the Brazilian presidential and general elections “hit traditional forces like a tsunami and set the country on a new and uncertain path,” writes the Wilson Center’s… Read more »
Syria’s rebranded Nusra Front following Hezbollah blueprint
Even if symbolic, the mere rebranding of the militant organization Nusra Front could be enough to prolong Syria’s civil war, according to Colin P. Clarke and Chad C. Serena, political… Read more »