Vladimir Putin made two miscalculations by invading Ukraine, notes Yaroslav Hrytsak, a historian at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. “First, he was hoping that, as had been the case… Read more »
Cuba has historically leveraged its healthcare sector to promote the Cuban Communist Party’s image, offer low-income countries an alternative source of assistance, and counteract pressure on foreign actors to condemn Cuba’s autocracy,… Read more »
Whatever Russia looks like after Putin, it may not be the Russia Western democracies want, one observer suggests. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used a nine-minute long video to call… Read more »
Seven months after Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban, the UN Security Council today renewed the mandate of the the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), charging it with a… 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 »
Today, March 17, is the anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s 1959 escape from a Chinese communist attempt to kidnap him, Reason’s David Kopel writes in the fifth of a series… Read more »
The defense of pluralist democracy is one of the criteria used by the Council of Europe to choose recipients of its North-South Prize, awarded each year since 1995 to two… Read more »
Myanmar Diaries, which won the Best Documentary Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, is a hybrid documentary made by 10 anonymous Burmese citizens who are part of the Myanmar Film Collective…. Read more »
Vladimir Putin personifies despotism’s dilemma, Princeton historian and Stalin biographer Stephen Kotkin told The New Yorker’s David Remnick this week. ‘The information gets worse. The sycophants get greater in number…. Read more »
Ukraine is fighting not just for its own existence but for European values, human rights and democracy, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, said in an address to the US. Congress today…. Read more »