How to kill a democracy
Today, millions of Indonesians may be able to vote, but the substantive rights typically accorded to citizens of a democracy are far from guaranteed, notes Krithika Varagur, the author of The Call:… Read more »
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Navigating Yemen’s landscape: Towards sustainable peace and democracy?
Yemen has made an eighth consecutive appearance on the International Crisis Group’s “Ten Conflicts to Watch” list for 2023. The brightest prospect for resolving the conflict would be an extended truce… Read more »
China at ‘tricky crossroads’ as social contract undergoes paradigm shift.
China is at a tricky crossroads where its social contract is undergoing a paradigm shift. Its populace is among the world’s most digitally connected, but is also one of… Read more »
World Values Survey confirms democracy’s long-term, but fragile appeal
The desire for free choice and autonomy is a universal human aspiration, but it is not top priority when people grow up feeling that survival is uncertain, the World Values… Read more »
Human rights and peace ‘inextricably linked’, says Ukraine activist
Leaked internal Russian government polling recently indicated that as few as one in four Russians may be in favor of the war in Ukraine, says Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor of Government at the… Read more »
Blend liberalism and muscular patriotism to confront Autocracy, Inc.
Democracy advocates are not only fighting their own country’s authoritarian regimes, but confront affluent autocratic alliances that act more like a business agglomeration – Autocracy, Inc. – than nation states,… Read more »
China Nexus: CCP rejects democracy versus authoritarianism narrative
President Xi Jinping used the occasion of his meeting with US President Joe Biden to deny that the “democracy versus authoritarianism” narrative is the defining feature of today’s world, claiming… Read more »
‘Worried’ Lukashenka continues Belarus crackdown
A Belarusian court has sentenced a businessman to 15 years in prison for administering more than two dozen social media chats on protests that followed a disputed presidential election in August… Read more »
How Brazil’s democracy ‘stepped back from the cliff’
Leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, commonly known as Lula, won Brazil’s presidential runoff yesterday, defeating incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by less than two percentage points, Reuters reports (HT:… Read more »
China’s ‘XiCP’ – from authoritarian to (sometimes) totalitarian
The world faces the prospect of more tension with China over trade, security and human rights after Xi Jinping, the country’s most powerful leader in decades, awarded himself another term… Read more »