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 »
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 »
Britain on Friday sanctioned a Russian judge and four others linked to the arrest and alleged poisonings of Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza who was jailed for 25 years this week… Read more »
Max Boot (“What the Neocons Got Wrong,” March 10) deserves praise for some serious soul-searching, the Carnegie Endowment’s Thomas Carothers observes. Yet in renouncing his prior belief in military-led regime… Read more »
Democracy generates economic dividends by aligning incentives and spontaneous solutions. That at least was the assertion of the Myanmar Economic Resilience and Reform Plan (MERRP), which the National League for… Read more »
President Joseph Biden used the occasion of this week’s Summit for Democracy to announce a plan to spend an additional $690 million on his Presidential Initiative for Democratic Renewal, an… Read more »
Dictatorships and authoritarian regimes tend to trail more democratic and inclusive nations in fostering cutting-edge, innovative technologies. But artificial intelligence may prove an exception, at least in China, says David Yang,… Read more »
China is not foisting their model on an unwilling world, argues analyst Paul Scharre. Many countries are all too happy to emulate China’s example of how to suppress freedoms and… Read more »
Russia‘s conduct of the war in Ukraine flouts the most basic international laws and conventions, posing a fundamental threat to the global order. As such, it offers a textbook example… Read more »
The European Commission today launched a public consultation on protecting the EU democratic sphere from covert foreign interference. The public consultation, open until 13 April 2023, will gather views of different… Read more »
Latin America is the most democratic region of the developing world. But it has long been heading in the wrong direction. Its score on the EIU Democracy Index has declined… Read more »