Reagan-Fascell Fellowships The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program offers five-month fellowships to leading democracy activists, journalists, civil society leaders, and scholars from around the world to conduct independent projects at the National… Read more »
North Africa Faces the Pandemic: Carnegie’s Middle East Program invites you to an online discussion on the pandemic’s effect on vulnerable populations in Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco & Tunisia. Acting Sada editor-in-chief Rafiah Al-Talei… Read more »
Pandemic geopolitics are intensifying investments in pro-democracy civic capacities and democracies’ societal resilience, according to a new report from the Carnegie Endowment. Developments are beginning to condition many states’ domestic… Read more »
The Biden administration hopes to bring democracies together in a new alliance against autocratic powers led by Beijing, notes a new analysis from the European Council on Foreign Relations. It… Read more »
Global internet freedom declined for the 11th consecutive year as governments increasingly asserted authority over technology platforms and forced businesses to comply with censorship and surveillance, according to Freedom on… Read more »
Russia’s ruling party retained its supermajority in parliament, further cementing President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power following elections that excluded most opposition politicians and were marred by multiple reports of… Read more »
Many observers see this weekend’s Russian elections as the latest stage in a regression from flawed democracy to fully fledged authoritarian state, says a new report from the European Parliament…. Read more »
Defending and advancing democracy is “the cause of our time,” says Damon Wilson, President & CEO of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Democracy has taken hits or is… Read more »
In the wake of the Afghanistan debacle, if democracies conclude military-backed liberal intervention in pursuit of democracy cannot work, will autocracies show the same self-restraint? The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour asks:… Read more »
Happy workers in sugar fields. The dashing Che Guevara. Bearded heroes clutching AK-47s. And, of course, Fidel Castro. Love it or hate it, the Cuban revolution has been one of… Read more »