Ukraine: How to maintain solidarity and unity
12/ It serves as a call to action for the international community to address the growing influence of fascist ideologies within Russia and support Ukraine in its struggle for sovereignty… Read more »
Category: Democracy Digest
‘Liberal democracy proven a poor rallying cry’: Can the West win over the rest?
Russia’s war in Ukraine has drawn Western allies closer together, but it has not unified the world’s democracies in the way U.S. President Joe Biden might have hoped for when… Read more »
‘Demilitarize, demonopolize, decentralize’: Change beats stasis in Thailand’s pivotal election
The results of Sunday’s election is a clear indication that Thailand’s people want change, by throwing their support behind the Move Forward Party, which is less than five years old,… Read more »
‘Georgian Nightmare’ jeopardizes EU accession hopes
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili today congratulated war veterans on the May 9 Victory Day over Nazi Germany and then answered journalists’ questions, not missing the chance to once again… Read more »
Walking the tightrope: What to do about Taiwan
If one of the most liberal and vibrant democracies in the world could simply be wiped off the face of the map by a neo-totalitarian superpower aggressor, what would this… Read more »
Will ‘possible turning point’ put democracy on the march again?
Is the world standing on the threshold of a democratic comeback? After years of relentless bad news, the latest annual global report on the health of democracy offers hope, according… Read more »
Unpacking Georgia’s “Foreign Agent” Bill: What Comes Next?
“We’ve seen this film before and it doesn’t end well” was the slogan on one placard as protesters in Georgia held more demonstrations over a ‘Kremlin-inspired’ law requiring externally-funded NGOs… Read more »
After China’s Winter of Discontent: Xi’s authoritarian tendencies ‘risk return to Mao-era practices’
Taxpayer money is being used to ‘smuggle Chinese ideology’ into Australia via community language schools, reports suggest. Students are using textbooks from the CCP’s United Front which say the South… Read more »
Georgia ‘borrowing a page from Kremlin playbook’?
Fistfights broke out among Georgian lawmakers on Monday as a parliamentary committee debated a bill on “foreign agents” which critics say is modelled on draconian legislation in neighboring Russia, Reuters… Read more »
How to win the hot war in Ukraine – and the following Cold War
A Russian victory in Ukraine would frog-march the world down a bleak path where might is right and frontiers are drawn by violence. It may hasten the next, even worse,… Read more »