With the United States and its European allies now struggling to manage the threat of a Russian attack on Ukraine, the 1938 appeasement of Nazi Germany has become an attractive… Read more »
Corruption levels remain at a standstill worldwide, with 86 per cent of countries making little to no progress in the last 10 years, according to the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index… Read more »
In the heyday of communism, Russia and China supported revolutionary forces around the world. But today Moscow and Beijing have embraced the rhetoric of counter-revolution, writes FT analyst Gideon Rachman:… Read more »
We have been looking for the solution to disinformation in the wrong place, according to a leading analyst. Civil society, not governments or social media companies, can best diminish disinformation…. Read more »
This is the darkest moment for freedom in half a century, according to Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at… Read more »
Russian President Vladimir Putin needs China to balance against the West, says Robert Kaplan, chair of geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Since it is the West, in his… Read more »
The rise of authoritarian China and the resulting new strategic competition were prompted by the “worst strategic blunder any country has made,” says a leading analyst. Demonstrating that there is… Read more »
It’s one of the few political problems that unites people across the political spectrum and across the globe, notes Ryan Heath of POLITICO’s Global Translations. But how can we actually… Read more »
Latin American democracy is more resilient than appearances may suggest, according to a new report. Opinion polls show that only around a fifth to a quarter of Latin Americans might… Read more »
Talks between US and Russian officials get underway in Geneva this week following concerns about a potential military escalation of Ukraine by Russian forces, notes the Center for European Policy… Read more »