‘No task more urgent’: Reviving democratic momentum
“No task seems more urgent than the protection of democracy at home and abroad,” for President Joe Biden, notes James Traub, a nonresident fellow at New York University’s Center on… Read more »
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Summit “gets under autocrats’ skins” – but is strategy faltering?
In some ways, President Joe Biden’s long-promised Summit for Democracy could not be better timed, POLITICO’s Nahal Toosi observes. The virtual gathering, set for Thursday and Friday, comes as people… Read more »
Summit’s 10 Commitments can spur global democratic renewal
The list of invitees to this week’s Summit for Democracy reflects political considerations more than democratic values, resulting in “a tangle of contradictions and missed opportunities,” The Economist suggests. Attendees… Read more »
Ukraine: Solidarity the best response to Russia’s threats
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken today warned that there’s “evidence” Russia is moving to “destabilize Ukraine from within,” according to reports. “We’ve seen this playbook before — in 2014… Read more »
Burundi activists lambast ‘simplistic’ lifting of sanctions
Human rights activists, civil society groups and opposition figures criticized the U.S. decision to lift sanctions on Burundi. The US ended visa restrictions imposed on eleven individuals complicit in human… Read more »
Can U.S. avoid ‘huge strategic setback’? Democracy summit must support transitions
U.S. officials are concerned by democratic backsliding across Africa, which has seen a wave of military coups in recent months — notably including in Sudan, where a coup last month… Read more »
Egypt’s human rights raise issues of concern in strategic dialogue
Top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken said on Monday that Egypt had more work to do on human rights as he met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry amid calls for… Read more »
Democratic façade: Nicaragua’s ‘slow-motion horror movie’
“There is no democracy. Democracy has been demolished,” exiled Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro tells PBS’s Nick Schifrin (above). Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega easily locked in a fourth consecutive term… Read more »
Why tiny Nicaragua is a big problem
The turmoil in Nicaragua has been overshadowed by events in nearby Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba, not to mention other parts of the world, notes Nahal Toosi. But the tiny country… Read more »
Can democratic solidarity withstand autocratic resurgence?
At a time of sharpening strategic competition between the democracies and resurgent authoritarians, are the principal axes of democratic solidarity in need of repair? The specter of conflict is haunting… Read more »