Nicaragua’s opposition National Coalition has announced that it will boycott the November 7 election. The issue of whether to boycott or participate in authoritarian elections presents democratic actors with… Read more »
The Biden administration must ensure that its forthcoming Summit for Democracy does not turn out to be “yet another good idea that is executed poorly.” Another platform for meaningless democracy… Read more »
India and Pakistan are in. Turkey and Hungary are not. That’s the still-tentative plan, anyway, as the White House has begun to send out invitations for the forthcoming “Summit for… Read more »
Invitations for U.S. President Joe Biden’s virtual Summit for Democracy will go out this week to heads of state around the world, including the leaders of countries with questionable democratic… Read more »
While reinforcing transnational cooperation between democratic allies, serious challenges confront the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) of 12 EU member states — all located in the east of Europe in between… Read more »
Latin America’s democracies look almost uniformly less healthy than they did a decade ago, the Economist reports. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken recently announced sanctions against seven public officials in… Read more »
Pandemic geopolitics are intensifying investments in pro-democracy civic capacities and democracies’ societal resilience, according to a new report from the Carnegie Endowment. Developments are beginning to condition many states’ domestic… Read more »
Although not a new phenomenon in Africa, military takeovers or coups occurred with disturbing frequency over the last year, writes Dr. Jude Mutah, an Africa program specialist at… Read more »
Russia’s increasingly globalized campaign on behalf of authoritarian stability has been most visible and ambitious in Syria, but is equally evident in Belarus and further afield, notes a leading analyst…. Read more »
The foreign policy agenda of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft – a coalition of libertarians, neo-realists and the progressive left – would diminish the prospects for liberal democracy and… Read more »