How to really punish Putin’s kleptocracy
It is often said that Russia is a competitor to western democracy. But that is misleading. Its regime is a model only to other budding kleptocrats, the FT’s Edward Luce… Read more »
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$500m fraud case roils Angola’s ‘oil-soaked kleptocracy’
One of the world’s most notorious kleptocracies is in the news again. The son of José Eduardo dos Santos, the former Angolan president, has been named as a suspect in… Read more »
Russia’s sham election shows many faces of Putin
Autocrats have a talent for producing impressive election results. It isn’t difficult to win when your opponents are not on the ballot, Russian democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza writes for the… Read more »
How Cambridge Analytica’s psychological warfare subverts democracy
A British TV station broadcast video Monday apparently showing the head of the data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, talking about using bribes, traps involving sex workers and other unethical tactics to swing… Read more »
Ukraine is ‘on the brink’ of kleptocracy
Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president, has warned that international donors cannot dictate laws to the country, amid a stand-off over demands for Kiev to set up an independent anti-corruption court that… Read more »
‘Leader of unfree world’ – China’s Xi is ‘courting political catastrophe’
In ending presidential term limits, China’s president Xi Jinping – the leader of the unfree world – is ‘thinking global and acting local’, The South China Morning Post’s Nectar Gan… Read more »
‘Oligarch-infested kleptocracy’? Ukraine’s corruption undermining democratic prospects
By pumping so much money through the hands of Ukrainian officials and businessmen — often the same people — the surge in military spending has held back efforts to… Read more »
What’s ahead for Ukraine’s reform movement?
Can Ukraine win its war on corruption? ask Melinda Haring [Editor of the Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert and a former Penn Kemble fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy] and Maxim… Read more »
Why governance reform is so essential – and so difficult
Governance is one of the most important foreign policy challenges—and among the most difficult, notes Brookings analyst Dan Byman: Poor governance is linked to civil wars, corruption and a lack of economic… Read more »
Tunisian unrest symptomatic of healthy democratic evolution
Some view Tunisia’s recent demonstrations and the government’s response as a dire warning that the end of the country’s experiment with democracy is near, notes Safwan Masri, the author of… Read more »