There are five main challenges for democracies after coronavirus, analysts Célia Belin and Giovanna De Maio write in a new Brookings analysis: protecting the safety and integrity of elections, finding the right… Read more »
Behind authoritarian leaders’ warm words welcoming the Belarusian state’s announcement that Alyaksandr Lukashenka had won a sixth term by a landslide were cold calculations, observers said: First, how to secure… Read more »
In response to Belarus’s latest stolen election, the democratic opposition has adopted three principles of protest, writes Sławomir Sierakowski, a Polish political analyst, and founding leader of Krytyka Polityczna (Political… Read more »
America today faces a potentially existential challenge to its national security as two great power adversaries, Russia and China, contest its post-Cold War dominion. How did we get here? asks… Read more »
There is a concrete way for dethroned incumbents to evade the consequences of electoral defeat, observes Jan-Werner Müller, Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Consider the party of Turkish President… Read more »
Police in Belarus have arbitrarily arrested journalists, bloggers, and political activists ahead of the August 9, 2020 presidential election and pressed charges against two potential candidates, Human Rights Watch said… Read more »
In his July 23 address at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that 50 years of engaging China had failed, denounced Chinese leader Xi Jinping… Read more »
I’m looking forward to taking part in this event on July 28, at @fiu_sipa: “China’s Sharp Power: Beijing’s Growing Repression in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Around the World” https://t.co/NfxD2y9KZ5… Read more »
At a time when the world’s democracies are on a back foot against a pandemic and creeping authoritarianism, a new study finds hope in Latin America. The reason is a… Read more »
How do state actors with full-spectrum propaganda capabilities put them to use in modern-day information operations? a new report asks. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long prioritized disinformation to… Read more »