Holding a referendum on compromises with Russia in war-torn Ukraine would be next to impossible without a ceasefire, so Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will have to get Russian President Vladimir Putin on… Read more »
Seven months after Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban, the UN Security Council today renewed the mandate of the the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), charging it with a… Read more »
In #DialoguesOnWar (above), Myroslav Marynovych, Vice Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, and Serhii Plokhii, Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, address the critical issues arising from the Ukraine… Read more »
If Putin succeeds in Ukraine, it certainly will not doom democracy around the world or even in Europe. But research suggests that domestic regime types, including liberal or constitutional democracy,… Read more »
For anybody trying to keep track of the war this is an extraordinarily useful resource from Bellingcat. Follow the Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map https://t.co/M5IaHtWjgQ — Lawrence Freedman (@LawDavF) March 6, 2022… 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 »
At a packed advanced screening of the documentary “Revolution of Our Times,” the audience gasped, sniffled and cried throughout the film’s depiction of police brutality and democratic resistance in pre-COVID… Read more »
In response [to the authoritarian resurgence], we’ve seen an unprecedented number of mass pro-democratic social movements rising up to resist the autocratic tide, says Erica Chenoweth. Many of these—in places… Read more »
History has accelerated; the impossible has become possible. Shifts that no one imagined two weeks ago are unfolding with incredible speed, notes Anne Applebaum, the author of Twilight of Democracy: The… Read more »
A prominent Cold War historian fears that Russia’s invasion, regardless of its outcome, portends a new era of immense hostility with Moscow — and that this new cold war will… Read more »