Ukraine/Russia – ‘a new gulag is emerging’
At least 4,000 civilians are held in Russia and at least as many scattered around the occupied territories, according to Vladimir Osechkin, an exiled Russian human rights activist who talks… Read more »
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‘Putin’s in a zugzwang’: The beginning of the end?
As rattled as they may have been by an armed insurrection in a nuclear-weapons state, Russia’s friends and business partners are unlikely to abandon Vladimir Putin, according to diplomats and… Read more »
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy: Russia very, very afraid of…’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the Ukraine Recovery Conference (above) that “democracy paves the way for the rule of law”. He said resources and land were not the only… Read more »
‘Xivilization’ – China’s authoritarian answer to crisis
China has launched the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI) — the last of a trio of Xi Jinping’s ideological frameworks — as being central to “cultivating the garden of world civilization,”… Read more »
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 »
Overcoming the challenges of transitional mobilization
There is an urgent need for the peaceful transformation of autocratic and pseudo-democratic political regimes, say analysts Suha Hassen and Jonathan Pinckney. The vision of a just, peaceful, and rights-respecting… Read more »
Russia’s Ukraine invasion deepens Eurasian autocracy-democracy divide
Democracy deteriorated in the 29-state region stretching from Central Europe to Central Asia in 2022, according to the latest Nations in Transit report from Freedom House. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine… Read more »
‘Gaming public opinion’: CCP’s cyber-enabled influence ops
Under the guise of ‘guiding public opinion’, a policy concept that dates back to the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) justifies its manipulation of information… Read more »
Does ‘democracy aid’ really promote democracy?
Does democracy assistance really help advance democracy? And, if so, what forms of aid are most effective? Employing the Varieties of Democracy Index, and OECD/DAC aid data from all donors… Read more »
Democracy and its opposites: Can we slow authoritarian backsliding?
Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 will pose a key question of our time: is it possible to slow authoritarian backsliding and renew democratic progress? notes Gönül Tol, the… Read more »