U.S. analysts Michael Kofman and Rob Lee argue in a lengthy posting on War on the Rocks that Ukraine’s patient tactics to some extent have been misunderstood and that its… Read more »
Not only has the West lost faith in its program of spreading democracy and good governance, but China—a paranoid nationalist that is inclined to spot slights and threats around every… Read more »
On a host of fronts, China’s domineering leader seems to be fighting fires, The Post’s Ishaan Tharoor observes: Abroad, President Xi Jinping is confronted by a hardening consensus against… Read more »
The West is now engaged in a generational struggle against big, ruthless, and wealthy authoritarian regimes, notes Mick Ryan, a military strategist and an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for… Read more »
Prominent American political scientist Larry Bartels insists that democracy withers from above, says analyst Ivan Krastev; unfortunate coalition policies or institutional changes are really why the far right comes to… Read more »
Three months before Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, an article appeared in the Russian press under the headline “Where has chaos gone? Unpacking instability,” The FT’s… Read more »
Russia and China provide surge capacity to Africa’s kleptocratic networks, says a new report from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 showcased the… Read more »
Inside the Moscow courtroom where judges have just rejected Vladimir Kara-Murza’s appeal against his 25 year prison sentence. The Kremlin critic was convicted of treason in April. pic.twitter.com/i1ljaoY3V0 — Steve… Read more »
In the quarter century after the Cold War ended, Western countries largely believed—or at least hoped—that the Soviet Union’s dissolution would inaugurate a new normal of benign relations between democracies and autocracies,… Read more »
When Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, launched his attempted mutiny on the morning of June 24, Vladimir Putin was paralyzed and unable to act decisively, according… Read more »