Government-imposed internet shutdowns are on the rise globally, with devastating impacts on affected communities. Fighting back requires shining a light where governments impose the dark, says a study published in… Read more »
Catalan’s separatist leaders offered to recognize Russia’s claim to Crimea in exchange for Kremlin support for their independence movement and, according to a Spanish police report, they have censored their… Read more »
The Balkans Don’t Believe the EU Anymore, Atlantic Council analysts Benjamin Haddad and Damir Marusic argue in Foreign Policy. The fact that EU members such as Hungary and Poland are backsliding… Read more »
The democratic recession and the fraying of the liberal international order have created more ideologically adverse revisionist states, while activists have clamored for sanctions on China for its persecution of… Read more »
By controlling a huge volume of data, Beijing is conducting a grand experiment in 21st century authoritarian governance, FT analysts James Kynge and Sun Yu write in the FT Big-Read… Read more »
The Middle East’s return to repression provides a tragic epitaph to the post-9/11 era, notes Brookings’ analyst Shadi Hamid. Over the past two decades, Arabs have repeatedly demonstrated that their… Read more »
For his forthcoming Summit for Democracy, President Biden should keep the tent large while emphasizing that the objective is not to create a new formal alliance of democracies, argues Kemal… Read more »
In the wake of the Afghanistan debacle, if democracies conclude military-backed liberal intervention in pursuit of democracy cannot work, will autocracies show the same self-restraint? The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour asks:… Read more »
India’s democratic malaise is by now well documented, notes James Crabtree, executive director of IISS-Asia and author of ‘The Billionaire Raj’. The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which… Read more »
The Covid-19 pandemic combined with economic crisis and deteriorating living conditions has resulted in widespread protests in Cuba against the regime and the lack of basic goods and services, specifically… Read more »