China’s Belt-and-Road push for global sway – renewed or ‘overhyped’?
As Chinese leader Xi Jinping landed in Myanmar on Friday he hoped to send a clear signal that his country is back in the driver’s seat. Having backed Myanmar, also… Read more »
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Burma’s civil society challenged by ‘misleading top-down transition’
How did Burma’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi go from Nobel Peace Prize laureate to figurehead for a regime accused of genocide? After Myanmar’s political reforms in 2011, Western… Read more »
Tunisia’s ‘Berlusconi’ seeks presidency in Arab world’s only ‘resilient’ democracy
Tunisia’s transition to democracy has proved more resilient than some expected. The largely peaceful run-up to the polls has raised hopes the country will achieve its first handover of the… Read more »
UN seeks boycott of firms linked to Myanmar’s military
A UN fact-finding team has exposed a far-reaching web of businesses controlled by Myanmar’s military, and warned foreign companies to sever ties with them, in findings that will underscore the… Read more »
What next for the Rohingya? Fresh thinking needed to resolve crisis
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee called for the Myanmar army chief to be prosecuted for “genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes”, CIVICUS… Read more »
Russia ‘playing with West’s minds’: Putinism an ideological threat?
In a new book, Matteo Renzi, the former Italian prime minister, says he called President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia about false news reports attacking him on the international Russian… Read more »
Reclamation: new Arab discourse empowers civil actors
ISIS may be defeated and devoid of territory, but its ideology continues to spread, The [London] Times reports. Jihadi fighters are not necessarily driven by religious ideology, disenfranchised or lacking… Read more »
How Russian-style kleptocracy is infiltrating democracies
When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost, argues analyst Franklin Foer. The looting elites of the former Soviet Union were far from… Read more »
How Khomeini betrayed the democratic promise of the Iranian revolution
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini betrayed the principles of the Iranian revolution after sweeping to power in 1979, leaving a “very bitter” taste among some of those who had returned with him… Read more »
Burma’s crisis of democracy: hate speech, atrocities and fake news
Last year, as Rohingya Muslim men, women and children ran from their burning villages in the western Rakhine state of Myanmar [aka Burma] an alarmed world turned to the internet for… Read more »