Ukraine on its way to the West
The European Union’s decision to grant EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova is a historic turning point both for the former Soviet republics as well as for the EU. Ukraine… Read more »
Category: Analysis
Democratic resilience meets authoritarian influence
Like his friend, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin has believed for years that the West is in decline, dysfunctional, and self-obsessed. Domestic political fights, electoral upsets and quarrels among… Read more »
China’s coming ‘Lehman moment’?
A new U.S.-China Digital World Order Initiative will emphasize the need for “digital democracy” to triumph over “digital autocracy,” according to reports. China thinks American democracy is too messy to… Read more »
Can Putin Survive?
The thinking behind the assumption that the war in Ukraine may prompt an elite coup or mass protests that depose Vladimir Putin is based on a faulty reading of history,… Read more »
Swirling doubts, major shifts shaking China’s leaders?
Speculation about political infighting and schisms at the top of the Chinese Communist Party are a common feature of its secretive system of appointing new leaders. But this year, political… Read more »
Westminster 2.0: Forging new platforms for freedom
The war in Ukraine is a vivid real-time reminder of the urgency of the task of modernizing and reinvigorating approaches and efforts to advance freedom around the world, according to… Read more »
Don’t neglect the civil side of Ukraine war, analyst warns
It is dangerous for the U.S., NATO, the EU, and America’s broader range of strategic partners to focus on the military dimensions of the Ukraine War and to fail focusing… Read more »
Chinese students stage rare protests ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
Chinese students staged rare COVID protests ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, DW News reports. Hundreds of students in Beijing have called for freedom of movement amid… Read more »
West’s ‘strongman’ enemies are weaker than we think
The strongman model of autocracies like China has seemed so successful it has spawned imitators: Erdogan in Turkey, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Duterte in the Philippines, along with second-division authoritarians such as… Read more »
Strategic Compass: A new toolbox for democratic resilience
Disinformation affects democratic systems by lowering the deliberative quality of society which in turn accelerates citizens’ alienation from democracy, say analysts Christoph Deppe and Gary S. Schaal. Press coverage of the poisoning… Read more »