What if Ukraine wins?
A full-scale Ukrainian military defeat of Russia, including the retaking of Crimea, verges on fantasy and it would be far too optimistic to base either Ukrainian or Western strategy on… Read more »
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Is democracy the dividing line in Latin America?
The Biden administration has made a final decision to exclude the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas, people familiar with the matter said,… Read more »
‘Modernizing the toolkit’ for cultivating democracy
It is time to grasp the “opportunity to reinvigorate, strengthen, and modernize approaches” to advancing democracy “in the face of the growing specter of transnational oppression and evidence of a… Read more »
Ukraine on the frontline: Can democracies stop tyranny?
This year’s Globsec Bratislava Forum takes place “on the frontline of democracy,” said the group’s president Robert Vass. Just 500km away, “people are paying the highest price for values… Read more »
How to pull Tunisia away from authoritarianism
President Kais Saied’s steady dismantling of Tunisian democracy and authoritarian takeover—which has included shuttering the parliament, using military courts to try civilians, and repressing political opponents and media figures—has continued… Read more »
Recognizing resilience: Ukraine war’s implications for global democracy
“Ukraine has always aspired to be free”, Voltaire wrote back in the eighteenth-century. He knew that most of his French readers could barely find this “unknown land” on a map,… Read more »
Breaking out of the democratic slump
Who knew at the time of Ronald Reagan’s Westminster Address that communism would follow leg-warmers and New Coke into the dustbin of history? Under Secretary of State Uzra Zeya told… Read more »
Ukraine’s ‘existential threat’ to authoritarian kleptocracy
“A successful democratic experiment in Ukraine presents an existential threat to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian kleptocracy in Russia,” says detained opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza. It’s his strong conviction that Russia, one… Read more »
Open Technology Fund can counter digital authoritarianism, says new report
A new ASPI report demonstrates that in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, social media posts by Chinese diplomats on US-owned platforms almost exclusively blamed the US, NATO and the… Read more »
Putin’s hold on Russia: The beginning of the end?
The goals of Russia’s invasion keep getting smaller. But its depleted military is still failing to make major advances, and time is on Ukraine’s side, Josh Holder, Marco Hernandez and Jon Huang write for… Read more »