Ukraine’s lessons for Taiwan
An “authoritarian hangover” is hampering Taiwan’s military in its efforts to adapt to the growing threat from China, Kathrin Hille writes for The Financial Times. “We have an authoritarian hangover… Read more »
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Democratic resilience for the ‘Age of Great-Power Competition’
Watching Washington’s failures in Afghanistan—where its strategic impatience left allies exposed—autocrats concluded that Western democracies have lost the will to endure, notes Tom Tugendhat, Chair of the British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee…. Read more »
Mikhail Gorbachev ‘almost made Russia democratic’
Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War without bloodshed, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely despised at home as the… Read more »
Why are democracies funding autocracies?
Autocracies consume an increasing proportion of official development assistance (ODA) flows, from 64% in 2010 to 79% in 2019, according to a recent OECD analysis. There are two reasons… Read more »
Building trust, reinforcing democracy
Trust is a critical ingredient for cultivating a robust civil society and resilient democracy, analysts attest. By the mid-1990s, several Western democracies, including the United States, were showing signs… Read more »
Ukraine: Putin’s distortions about past feed delusions about future
President Vladimir V. Putin’s decision this week to expand the size of his military offered further evidence for a conviction taking hold in both Russia and Ukraine: The two sides are… Read more »
Explaining authoritarian endurance, countering the disinformation playbook
Why do dictatorships emerging from social revolutions endure, even in the face of economic crisis, policy failure, mass discontent, and external pressure? In Revolution and Dictatorship, Steven Levitsky and Lucan… Read more »
Weaponize transparency to defeat autocracy
Democracies have a significant advantage in weaponizing transparency at scale to highlight autocratic activities that break international norms or inflict damage on local economies and populations, argue Garrett Berntsen, the Deputy Chief… Read more »
The ‘twin graces’ of confidence and humility vital to advancing democracy
On Feb. 17, Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) took his seat before the United Nations Security Council and, in strikingly precise terms, offered his version of the immediate future… Read more »
A new democracy ‘architecture’ for the Indo-Pacific?
A promising cross-sector initiative has the potential to create a platform for advancing democracy in the Indo-Pacific region, says a leading protagonist. At a recent forum of the Sunnylands Initiative,… Read more »