Why Putin survives
“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart,” Russian President Vladimir Putin famously said in 2010. But he quickly added, “Whoever wants it back has no brain,” notes… Read more »
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North Korea: The human rights and security linkage
Too often in the past the issue of human rights in the DPRK has been treated as a separate or even a secondary concern to the security situation, notes the… Read more »
Millennials not skeptics of democracy
Citizens of established democracies are becoming skeptical of democracy’s worth, according to a recent Journal of Democracy article by political scientists Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk. But analyst Jeff… Read more »
Illiberalism’s appeal in Europe and Eurasia
In the West, the rise of illiberalism is taking place within a democratic framework. In most Eurasian states, on the other hand, authoritarianism is the dominant political system, thus enabling… Read more »
China’s ‘Great Leap Backward’
A bipartisan strategic assessment underlies a widely-shared assumption about the likely direction of China’s development, notes a leading analyst. This was not the simplistic faith that if China became richer,… Read more »
Leonardo DiCaprio cooperating in kleptocracy probe
Leonardo DiCaprio is aiding the investigation into a Malaysian embezzlement scam that involved his hit film about financial market fraud, “The Wolf of Wall Street,” AFP reports: The Hollywood star… Read more »
Defending liberal world order requires democratic renewal (and vice versa)
Václav Havel’s legacy is a vital moral and intellectual resource for confronting the authoritarian resurgence and for addressing the challenge of democratic renewal, a commemorative conference at the National Endowment… Read more »
How to counter autocrats’ soft power
A new global “soft power” ranking recently reported that the democratic states of North America and Western Europe were the most successful at achieving their diplomatic objectives “through attraction and… Read more »
Challenging the myth of moral equivalence
The headline: “U.S. investigates potential covert Russian plan to disrupt November elections.” To those unused to this kind of story, I can imagine that headline, from The Post this week,… Read more »
China’s Civil Society Crackdown Risks Mass Unrest, Says UN
The UN’s top expert on extreme poverty and human rights has complained of having his access restricted in China as he criticized Beijing for overseeing a “drastically shrinking space” for… Read more »