Civil society – Ukraine’s other army
Russian strategy toward Ukraine is designed to demoralize and demotivate, notes Anne Applebaum. But it encounters a potent countervailing force in the form of activists and volonteri in groups like… Read more »
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Tunisia’s ‘dream of self-government’ in danger
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday that Tunisia’s “dream of self-government” was in danger, adding to U.S. criticism of the president’s expansion of powers that has already prompted… Read more »
Why Taiwan matters
Taiwan exhibits strong democratic tendencies, not because it has undergone a Westernizing cultural transformation, according to Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Until 2000, the KMT regime leveraged Confucian values… Read more »
‘Stop tiptoeing around Russia’: Ukraine at an inflection point
The war in Ukraine has now reached an inflection point, according to a prominent observer. The United States must decide whether it will help Ukraine approach the negotiating table with… Read more »
Why organized labor is a democratic catalyst
The labor movement has played a decisively prodemocratic role, not least as a catalyst for democratic transition in such states as Poland, South Africa, Brazil, and Chile, while Tunisia’s UGTT… Read more »
Moral and strategic case for standing with Taiwan
Before leaving #Taiwan, Mrs. #Pelosi was expected to meet human-rights activists incl Tiananmen protest leader Wu’er Kaixi, fmr Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee & Lee Ming-che, a Taiwanese activist who… Read more »
The Ukraine imperative: Does the West have a strategy for victory?
Will the most consequential event of our time be the heroism of Ukrainian men and women fighting and dying for liberal democracy? Putin calculates that as democracies’ aid to… Read more »
‘Gangsterization’ scars Haiti amid political gridlock
Gangs are increasing their chokehold on Haiti’s capital, using bulldozers to raze entire neighborhoods, overwhelming poorly armed police and taking their violence to within blocks of the seat of government,… Read more »
A House of Cards? Imagining a post-Putin Russia
Vladimir Putin’s ‘foreign agents’ law has become the authorities’ go-to malign tool for their war of attrition against civil society, Rachel Denber, deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human… Read more »
Can the West help shape the Balkans’ European future?
What role can the United States play in encouraging democratic reforms in the Western Balkans? The Atlantic Council’s Ilva Tare questions Damon Wilson, President and CEO of the National Endowment… Read more »