With Vladimir Putin facing down a mutiny, FRONTLINE examines how the Russian leader reached this moment of crisis (above). Veteran filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team examine the story of… Read more »
“709 Crackdown 2.0” Global call against China’s renewed crackdown on human rights lawyers https://t.co/nCqIa7GCKs — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 11, 2023 Civil society and pro-democracy groups are marking China Human… Read more »
The world’s autocrats continue to bend social media to their will, according to Samuel Woolley, the author of “Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity.” Despots have… Read more »
The 2024 presidential elections and 2025 regional, local and legislative elections present a crucial opportunity for the reinstitutionalization of Venezuela’s democracy and rule of law and for the normalization of… Read more »
Europe has entered a “battle of narratives” with competitors that do not adhere to liberal democratic values, according to EU vice president Maroš Šefčovič. “The time that liberal democracy… Read more »
IN THE AFTERMATH of a devastating war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (above) will have to rebuild and fortify not only Ukraine’s cities and infrastructure but also its democracy, analysts Henry… Read more »
Raúl Castro lacked the theatrical skills of Fidel Castro, but being a precise and methodological manager, he hand–picked the military inner circle of power, with the close input of retiring… Read more »
Democratization in the Arab world has long been hobbled by an “Islamist dilemma,” notes Brookings analyst Shadi Hamid. U.S. officials who might otherwise believe in democracy have found it more… Read more »
As rattled as they may have been by an armed insurrection in a nuclear-weapons state, Russia’s friends and business partners are unlikely to abandon Vladimir Putin, according to diplomats and… Read more »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the Ukraine Recovery Conference (above) that “democracy paves the way for the rule of law”. He said resources and land were not the only… Read more »