Venezuela’s new stranglehold on civil society
Venezuela’s democratic opposition is pinning its hopes on the 2024 presidential election, a return to a strategy that has mostly failed over the past 25 years, Bloomberg reports. Even if… Read more »
Category: Analysis
New geopolitical reality needs new narratives to advance democracy
To advance democracy as a model of governance, the EU should build a new narrative that squarely promotes it as a universal aspiration but that is tailor-made to local realities… Read more »
Breaking news – democracy more resilient than expected
At the beginning of 2022, all democracy indices indicated that the world’s democratic recession was continuing, according to Ken Godfrey, executive director of the European Partnership for Democracy. In this context, the… Read more »
As symbol of global ideological struggle, Ukraine ‘galvanized democracies’ – and complicated support strategies
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February made democracy’s defense a priority of the highest geopolitical as well as normative order, says a new report. It propelled commitments to protect democracy… Read more »
‘Disenchanted Liberalism’: Democratic capitalism in crisis?
In an age of populist demagoguery, “illiberal democracy”, personalized autocracy and China’s institutionalized despotism, will democratic capitalism — the marriage of liberal democracy and market capitalism — endure? the FT’s… Read more »
‘Sin Autorización’: The Other Cuba
Cuba’s most vocal critics today are young adults who grew up in the post-Communist era and view the “revolution” as an ossified ideology imposed on them by octogenarian leaders clinging… Read more »
Putin’s Ukraine war is ‘turning Russia into a failed state’
Pro-democracy Russians who reject the totalitarian Putin regime are doing what they can to help Ukraine liberate all occupied territories and restore its territorial integrity. We are also planning for the… Read more »
Russia sought to impose autocracy on Ukraine – now it’s discrediting populism
A former commander in the Russian mercenary Wagner Group is seeking asylum in Norway, the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration told the Associated Press on Monday. The man, whom it identified as Andrey Medvedev,… Read more »
‘Global Polycrisis’ damaging democracy
Only 13% of the world’s population are currently living under a liberal democracy, compared to 44% living under an electoral autocracy, with the share of the world’s population living in… Read more »
Peak China? CCP’s waning sharp power
The chairman of the newly established congressional select committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Representative Mike Gallagher, revealed that Disney CEO Bob Iger and NBA commissioner Adam Silver would be… Read more »