China will impose sanctions on four people with links to U.S. democracy promotion efforts, it said on Monday, over what it called interference in the Asian financial hub of Hong… Read more »
Is Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement undergoing a strategic shift? During her fourth annual policy address, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam praised the controversial national security law Beijing imposed earlier… Read more »
“We’ve witnessed a sharp rise in nationalist rhetoric that plays to people’s fears instead of their hopes. Institutions and reforms are being challenged… compromise and cooperation dismissed.” Those are the… Read more »
On Nov. 6, Denis Solís González (above), a young and rebellious Cuban rapper, dared to call a police officer who broke into his house to harass him a “chicken… Read more »
In 1998, then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously defined the United States as “the indispensable nation,” notes Ana Palacio, a former minister of foreign affairs of Spain and a visiting lecturer at… Read more »
Are policies of engagement and enlargement that sought to encourage the spread of democracy and free markets appropriate in a new strategic context of great power competition? The COVID-19 pandemic… Read more »
The likely new U.S. secretary of state “has long been clear about the importance of promoting democracy and human rights” in U.S. foreign policy, observers suggest. President-elect Joe Biden is… Read more »
The Covid pandemic in Africa could well become a political emergency that threatens the democratic progress that countries across the continent have achieved in recent years, argue Alan Doss and… Read more »
A pro-democracy foreign policy does not entail subordinating U.S. foreign policy objectives to human rights imperatives as any new administration will need to weigh these concerns alongside its full array… Read more »
NEW: China will overtake the U.S. to become the world’s biggest economy in 15 years, according to Bloomberg Economics forecasts. The global economy is transitioning from West to East, and… Read more »