Preliminary reports suggest that some foreign actors are already seeking to instrumentalise the unrest in the US for their own ends, the EU Stratcom Task Force reports. An analysis of… Read more »
Tiananmen Massacre survivor and former political prisoner Yang Jianli (right) reflects on how poetry helped him endure captivity, and how art can sustain us amidst social distancing. First, we cannot… Read more »
Andrew James Klassen and Roberto Stefan Foa discuss the role that government effectiveness in handling Covid-19 will play in restoring or undermining faith in democracy. https://t.co/dNKH9TGsJW — PACE Funders… Read more »
Egypt’s military-backed government is using the coronavirus pandemic to tighten its grip on the country, human rights activists say. In recent weeks, authorities have ordered up punishments, including prison terms,… Read more »
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 »
In the absence of global democratic leadership, China is taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to proclaim the superiority of its authoritarian model, notes Keith B. Richburg, director of the… Read more »
China must be held accountable for the coronavirus outbreak, as thousands of lives could have been saved if it had acted earlier, says a leading human rights advocate. The Chinese… Read more »
How Chinese people remember and talk about their experiences during the COVID surge with one another may have real political consequences, says Minxin Pei, professor of government at Claremont McKenna… Read more »
Democracy’s resilience was demonstrated during the COVID 19 pandemic, when democratic practices adapted in innovative ways, observers suggest. Some countries managed to hold elections in exceedingly difficult conditions, for instance… Read more »
Support for populist parties and agreement with populist views have diminished during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a “mega-dataset” assessing political attitudes of over half a million people across 109… Read more »