The National Security Strategy of the United States declares the return of great power rivalry with Russia and China to be the foremost threat to US security and economic well-being,… Read more »
President Biden has made it his mission to wage what he momentously calls “the battle between democracy and autocracy.” But what to do when the ones he believes are undermining… Read more »
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan beat back the greatest political challenge of his career on Sunday, securing victory in a presidential runoff that granted five more years to a mercurial leader… Read more »
Russia’s war in Ukraine has drawn Western allies closer together, but it has not unified the world’s democracies in the way U.S. President Joe Biden might have hoped for when… Read more »
A new generation of protesters and dissidents need help to evade government controls. Free countries can develop and spread encryption software that protects their digital communications, as well as tools… Read more »
The desire for free choice and autonomy is a universal human aspiration, but it is not top priority when people grow up feeling that survival is uncertain, the World Values… Read more »
President Xi Jinping used the occasion of his meeting with US President Joe Biden to deny that the “democracy versus authoritarianism” narrative is the defining feature of today’s world, claiming… Read more »
The most pressing strategic challenge facing democracies comes “from powers that layer authoritarian governance with a revisionist foreign policy,” says the Biden Administration’s new National Security Strategy. More specifically, competition with… Read more »
On Feb. 17, Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) took his seat before the United Nations Security Council and, in strikingly precise terms, offered his version of the immediate future… Read more »
A new Russian landscape is emerging that demands patient observation, even if is still unclear what comes next amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, notes Lilia Shevtsova (above, left), the Richard von… Read more »