A generation ago, the United States and Central Europe helped lead the West’s post-Cold War agenda of enlarging the democratic space, argues a new analysis. The peoples of Central Europe, with… Read more »
In the middle of the night on May 30, 2020, more than fifty armed police surrounded an ordinary residential building in Chuxiong City, Yunnan Province and arrested Wang Zang, an… Read more »
Imagine you live in a freewheeling city like New York or London—one of the world’s leading financial, educational, and cultural centers. Then imagine that one of the most infamous… Read more »
Yuri Orlov, physicist who became a symbol of Soviet dissent, dies at 96 https://t.co/21j9gD1Mdr — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) October 1, 2020 Yuri Orlov, a Russian-born physicist who designed particle accelerators,… Read more »
‘A Dictatorship Is Being Created’: An Interview with Lech Wałęsa https://t.co/U6rrtpxhQL via @nybooks — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 3, 2020 The current democratic crisis demonstrates that “we are between… Read more »
The covid-19 pandemic “is a wake-up call…not just as a public-health disaster, but a stress test of Western government,” John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge contend in The Wake-Up Call:… Read more »
Washington’s best response to Xi Jinping’s increasingly nationalistic and authoritarian China is to adopt an asymmetric approach — revitalizing the relationships that have long anchored U.S. diplomacy while reaffirming… Read more »
In 1911, Robert Michels (1876-1936), an Italian political sociologist, published “Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy,” postulating the “iron law of oligarchy.” Michels, who… Read more »
Belarus: Lessons from Polish Solidarity https://t.co/colC8cgOHW — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 31, 2020 Lech Walesa on Monday warned against populism as his deeply divided country marked 40 years since a… Read more »
Russia: who wanted Alexei Navalny dead? https://t.co/kcyoYvClkf via @financialtimes — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 31, 2020 Prominent Russian blogger Yegor Zhukov (below) was beaten near his Moscow home late… Read more »