Category: Central/Eastern Europe

Belarus to Ukraine: Democratic awakening ‘can’t be put back in the bottle’

     

The experience of Afghanistan over the past 20 years illustrates the problems and contradictions inherent in the democracy-promotion agenda, The Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual Democracy Index asserts. The issue of… Read more »

‘A democracy in action’: Ukraine’s new civic identity

     

While the world’s eyes are on the diplomatic surge trying to head off a Russian invasion of Ukraine, WBUR reports, for Ukrainians themselves, there’s also something else — the feeling… Read more »