Ukraine’s remarkable resilience will be highlighted when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses members of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday amid Russia’s ongoing war against his country, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate… Read more »
The use of sanctions has risen sharply in recent years, according to the Global Sanctions Database, a project from Drexel University that has become the most comprehensive tally of its… Read more »
The way a regime treats its own people is often indicative of how it will act toward other nations. Vladimir Putin has provided us with a tragic reminder of this… Read more »
It is up to the West’s democracies to stop another Grozny or Aleppo in Kiev, a leading Ukrainian activist said today. “People in Kyiv are ready to sacrifice their lives,”… Read more »
China is increasingly taking the lead in the ideological confrontation with the US over democracy and human rights, with Russia tacitly showing its conformity to Beijing’s philosophy, notes Ahmed Aboudouh,… Read more »
Many experts now believe that the path to Venezuela’s re-democratization involves a lengthy negotiation process leading to free and fair presidential elections and the rebuilding of democratic institutions, says a… Read more »
Many Colombians, tired of the country’s prolonged period of polarization, hoped this would be the year things changed, according to Theodore Kahn and Sylvana Amaya, senior analysts in Control Risks’… Read more »
Future digital communities will clamp down on divisive anti-social contributions that dampen public participation in democracy and a Digital Bill of Rights will govern at least a share of the… Read more »
The Central American country has defied many assumptions of political science to produce one of the world’s most impressive trajectories of the past three decades, resulting in a notably resilient… Read more »
Democracy is being harassed everywhere and Central America is suffering, too. Yet in this small corner of the Western hemisphere, the consequences of democratic breakdown could be especially dire for… Read more »