Tibet’s freedom hinges on democracy in China
The death last month of Lodi Gyari, who as the Dalai Lama’s special envoy conducted nine rounds of negotiations with Beijing over Tibet’s status, offers an occasion to reflect on the… Read more »
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‘Striking fragility’ in willingness to defend core democratic values?
The illiberal attitudes underpinning the populist upsurge in Europe are not unique to that continent, analysts suggest. There is a striking fragility in Americans’ willingness to defend core democratic values,… Read more »
Opposition aims to rescue Bangladesh’s ‘decaying democracy’
The announcement of a schedule for the next general election in Bangladesh has triggered hope of a credible poll but also concern about more political violence across the Muslim-majority South Asian nation,… Read more »
Concert of Indo-Pacific democracies can counter China
The deepening relationship between Japan and India serves the goal of forestalling the emergence of a China-centric Asia, if they can leverage their relationship to generate progress toward broader cooperation… Read more »
Conservative civil society pushing back against Western liberal norms
The rapid rise of Brazil’s new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro may have surprised some observers but it did not come out of thin air. His success follows years of support… Read more »
What Comes Next? Resilience lessons for liberal democracy’s renewal
Are there lessons for renewal from democracies that have faced executive degradation of pre-weakened democratic institutions, particularly countries with polarized populations? In What Comes Next? Lessons for the Recovery of Liberal Democracy, a report… Read more »
Maintaining the legacy of an ‘extraordinary champion’ for ‘Tibet
Lodi Gyari, the Dalai Lama’s right-hand diplomat who led rare negotiations with China that proved frustrating and fruitless, was effectively a foreign minister for the Tibetan spiritual leader and became… Read more »
Lodi Gyari Rinpoche, Dalai Lama’s former Special Envoy, passes away
Lodi Gyari Rinpoche, the former special envoy for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, passed away in the early hours of Monday morning in San Francisco at the age of 69…. Read more »
Hacks, leaks & disruptions: Russia – from digital outlier to cyberpower
A set of measures to defend digital democracies against disinformation campaigns, hackers and cyberattacks is urgently required, according to Hacks, leaks and disruptions: Russian cyber strategies, a new report from… Read more »
Authoritarian Anticorruption Campaigns: A Tool to Consolidate Power
Does the arrest of the son of Angola’s former president in a $1.5bn corruption case signal the end of kleptocratic rule? Not necessarily, says a leading analyst. In the hands… Read more »