How India challenges China model
India’s status as the world’s largest democracy and its non-Western identity have buttressed the argument that democracy is a universal idea, says a leading democracy practitioner. In addition, the fact… Read more »
Smart sanctions should target Kremlin kleptocrats
More than 1,000 people were detained at anti-corruption protests across Russia on Monday, AP reports: The OVD-Info group, which tracks police detentions and posts the names of the detainees on… Read more »
Algeria’s ‘supportive adversaries’
In Algeria, the prospect of a fifth term for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the presidential election next year has been hovering for months, notes Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck, a Resident Scholar at… Read more »
As unrest flares, could more inclusion repair Iraq’s fractured democracy?
Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition Wednesday as demonstrators took to the streets for a third day in the southern city of Basra. One person died and 21… Read more »
The case for a democratic values-based foreign policy
The next U.S. administration should embrace traditional democratic values and apply them at home and abroad, the Center for American Progress concludes in a new analysis released Thursday, The Washington… Read more »
How fragile states breed violent extremism
Each fragile state is fragile in its own way, but they all face significant governance and economic challenges. In fragile states, governments lack legitimacy in the eyes of citizens, and… Read more »
‘The New Arab Order’: potential for democratic inclusion foreclosed?
In 2011, millions of citizens across the Arab world took to the streets, prompting popular uprisings from Tunis to Cairo which promised to topple autocracies and usher in democratic reforms, notes Marc Lynch,… Read more »
Double blow to Sudan democracy advocates
Sudanese activists are mourning the loss of Dr Amin Maki Madani (left), a prominent advocate for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, who died earlier this week. His… Read more »
Hunt for informers in Russia’s ‘Domestic Security Wars’
A long list of foreign nonprofit groups has been declared “undesirable” and a threat to Russia’s national security, including a London-based outpost of Ms. Natalia Gryaznevich’s organization, Open Russia, The… Read more »
How Western ‘enablers’ import corruption and strengthen authoritarianism
Certain elements within the legal, financial, and influence communities, seeking new markets, clients, and profits among an emerging global class of super wealthy actors with fortunes of dubious provenance, have… Read more »