Current approaches to democratic renewal fall short in addressing widespread disconnection. Most reform initiatives are procedural or institutional, focused on changing formal rules, such as electoral systems, or coupling new… Read more »
The Covid pandemic in Africa could well become a political emergency that threatens the democratic progress that countries across the continent have achieved in recent years, argue Alan Doss and… Read more »
The robustness of democratic institutions in large part rests on citizen activism, according to a leading civil-resistance expert. “Regular people should know that there are steps they can take to… Read more »
The Covid pandemic is presenting political parties with severe challenges – and unique opportunities, analysts suggest. Peruvians woke up Monday morning without a president, after Congress failed to agree on… Read more »
The great question facing the free world is how to deal with China in this new era of competition, argues analyst Michael Auslin. One answer is provided in a new “handbook”… Read more »
Egypt’s security forces detained the manager of a prominent rights group in Cairo after he met with European diplomats (see below), which the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) described… Read more »
China’s ideological challenge against liberal democracy seems orders of magnitude more effective than anything Soviet propaganda of the Cold War era could hope to achieve. As the U.S. sinks ever-deeper into… Read more »
A pro-democracy foreign policy does not entail subordinating U.S. foreign policy objectives to human rights imperatives as any new administration will need to weigh these concerns alongside its full array… Read more »
In 2014 Ukrainians got so fed up with the grotesque corruption of their political class that they staged a revolution, The Economist reports. Since then, reformers have been trying to… Read more »
Hungary will veto the European Union’s 2021-27 budget and its COVID recovery scheme if access to funds is made conditional on governments’ adherence to the rule of law, a move… Read more »