Following the re-election of Hungary’s Viktor Orban for a fourth consecutive term as prime minister last month, the European Parliament released a draft report characterizing Hungary as a ‘hybrid regime of… Read more »
Donors and implementers of international development programs increasingly emphasize the goal of self-reliance: working with local partners in a way that builds capacity and ensures sustained results toward a country’s development… Read more »
With autocrats and illiberal forces resurgent, democracy is in danger worldwide, according to Stanford University’s Larry Diamond. Yet the world is at a “fluid moment” in which trends “could swing… Read more »
The United States will cut assistance to Tunisia because of its government’s “deviation from democracy,” the head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said yesterday. “Tunisia will… Read more »
The United States has taken a back seat to the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina, embracing Brussels’ confidence that the EU enlargement process would facilitate Bosnia’s transition to a… Read more »
A U.S. citizen and four officials from China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) were charged in an indictment, unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn yesterday, with conspiracy and other charges… Read more »
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday announced the launch of a new program to capture and analyze evidence of war crimes and other atrocities allegedly perpetrated by Russia in Ukraine,… Read more »
The key to understanding why Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine does not necessarily lie in its foreign policy, but rather in its domestic politics, according to Aleksandar Matovksi, assistant professor in the Department… Read more »
What was Taiwan’s secret political formula that empowered its democratic transformation, so that by 2021 the island country was hailed as “beacon of democracy in Asia,” in the “Democracy Index”,… Read more »
A regime once known for its technocratic efficiency could soon face a growing legitimacy crisis, notes Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Seton… Read more »