Russia’s first Crimean war sounds a lot like Ukraine today, NPR’s Greg Myre notes. “There are very distinct parallels. And I think Putin has probably overstretched himself in the same… Read more »
China’s ruling Communist Party has developed a new artificial intelligence tool that allows authorities to monitor party members’ loyalty to the regime, reports suggest. China’s Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center… Read more »
Over 100 Russian servicemen from Buryatia have returned home after refusing to fight Vladimir Putin‘s war in Ukraine, according to an anti-war group, Newsweek reports. A plane with 150 servicemen… Read more »
West Africa’s slide toward authoritarianism can be stopped, argues E. Gyimah-Boadi, Co-Founder and Board Chair of Afrobarometer and Co-Founder and Former CEO of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development. Popular support for… Read more »
@AmbPower44‘s address at @freedomhouse was the Biden administration’s latest attempt to articulate its agenda of democratic renewal, says Sarah B Snyder. But FH is not ‘a historically conservative’ NGO –… Read more »
The greatest theorist on war, Carl von Clausewitz, often explained that strategy must be dynamic, constantly changing and rejuvenating itself. In his famous treatise “On War,” he wrote that some… Read more »
Sudan’s transition to democracy is being stifled by the military and security elites’ monopoly control of the country’s economy, according to Breaking the Bank, a new analysis from the Center… Read more »
In an era of geopolitical competition, Europe believes it offers an approach based upon multilateralism and international solidarity, but it needs to understand perceptions in the Global South and improve… Read more »
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are leading exponents of digital authoritarianism in MENA, while China also exports repressive technologies to the region, analyst James Lynch writes in a new report… Read more »
Experts have described Hungary’s Viktor Orbán as a new-school despot, a soft autocrat, an anocrat, and a reactionary populist. Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of international affairs at Princeton, has… Read more »