New US-China Cold War is ‘desirable’ or ‘not inevitable’?
In the year before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, campuses in China buzzed with debate about how to make the country more liberal. To some intellectuals the West offered… Read more »
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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 »
The China challenge: Should the West be worried?
How much of a challenge does China’s political model pose globally? That’s the principal question posed by The Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest annual Democracy Index. The potency of this political… Read more »
A second chance for Tunisia’s fledgling democracy?
Tunisia’s independent media regulator this week closed a television station, Nesma TV, owned by the Heart of Tunisia party leader Nabil Karoui, and a religious radio station, saying both were… Read more »
‘In sickness and in health’: Covid-19 prompts global democracy slump
Emergency measures to curtail the coronavirus pandemic took tolls on democratic freedoms around the world last year, with setbacks in the West even as some Asian countries made progress, a… Read more »
Sources of resilience: Democracy ‘contains seeds of its own recovery’
Some warn that the current identity-driven populist discontent will cause democracies to die—an outcome that its foes, championed by Vladimir Putin, have schemed to bring about, The Economist reports: The… Read more »
Visualizing the state of democracy
From Norway to North Korea, governing systems differ around the world. But has the world become more or less free in the past decade? Iman Ghosh writes for Visual… Read more »
How Covid-19 will change the world
The governments of Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Israel, New Zealand & Norway register the highest scores in our new index: they have performed best in managing the #public… Read more »
Out of the frying pan into the fire: Is COVID a MENA ‘conflict multiplier’?
Anti-government protests were a growing feature of life in the Middle East and North Africa before the arrival of Covid-19. The pandemic brought an abrupt halt to months of civil… Read more »
Geopolitics after Covid-19: A pandemic turning point?
COVID-19 is deepening the “democratic recession,” Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute, told a Hoover virtual policy briefing, the Stanford Daily’s Anna Milstein… Read more »