Holding a referendum on compromises with Russia in war-torn Ukraine would be next to impossible without a ceasefire, so Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will have to get Russian President Vladimir Putin on… Read more »
China cannot endorse Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because the maintenance of territorial integrity is “primordial” in Beijing’s foreign policy, but nor can it align itself with a NATO that it… Read more »
A “limited no-fly zone” over Ukraine would protect established humanitarian corridors for those fleeing the country and “deter Russian bombardment” to protect civilians, says an open letter to the Biden… Read more »
Authoritarians are collaborating in their efforts to consolidate power and accelerate attacks on democracy and human rights, according to Freedom in the World 2022: The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule…. Read more »
In the face of increasing geopolitical tensions, liberal democracies appear to feel particularly overwhelmed, according to Turning the Tide – Unlearning Helplessness, the latest Munich Security Report. Yet, despite the… Read more »
Less than half (45.7%) of the global population lives in a democracy – a pronounced decline from 2020 (49.4%), according to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual Democracy Index. Even fewer… Read more »
This is big. Never since World War II have the leading authoritarians of their time been so strategically aligned or personally close – at a time when both have an… Read more »
Chinese authorities have detained two prominent human-rights activists, quietly intensifying a crackdown on dissent weeks before Beijing hosts the most politicized Winter Olympics in recent memory, The Wall Street Journal… Read more »
This is the darkest moment for freedom in half a century, according to Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at… Read more »
The danger posed by populism lies in the damage leaders can do to the norms and institutions of liberal democracy. However, a new report finds that, in most of the… Read more »