Double blow to Sudan democracy advocates
Sudanese activists are mourning the loss of Dr Amin Maki Madani (left), a prominent advocate for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, who died earlier this week. His… Read more »
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‘Kleptocracy Curse’ undermines democracy, threatens global security
Federal investigators in Brazil have uncovered corruption at the highest levels of the government and in the country’s largest corporations, according to a Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounder by Claire Felter and Rocio Cara… Read more »
Transatlantic axis ‘no longer an engine of global democracy’?
At the end of the Cold War, as the lone superpower, the United States remained deeply engaged with the world, but the purpose of this engagement had changed, argues Randall… Read more »
Democracy and labor advocate Genie Kemble, R.I.P.
Democracy and labor activists are mourning the loss of Eugenia (Genie) Kemble, who passed away last evening. It is with great sorrow that we report the death of Eugenia Kemble,… Read more »
Tunisia: How to Keep Democracy on Track
Tunisia’s seven-year-long transition to democracy has been excruciatingly difficult, marked by several terrorist attacks, ongoing economic crisis, political stalemate, and tenuous compromises between Islamists and secularists. At several points since the overthrow of… Read more »
McCain passing the torch at democracy institute
For the first time in 25 years, the International Republican Institute will have a new leader. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is battling brain cancer, has decided to step down… Read more »
Is Poland Retreating from Democracy?
For the past twenty-five years, Andrzej Nowak, a decorated historian of Poland and Russia, has been conducting regular interviews with Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Law and Justice, the conservative political party that… Read more »
Facing up to the difference between election meddling and advancing democracy
“Donald Trump’s refusal in Helsinki to credit his intelligence agencies’ findings about Russian electoral interference has unleashed a nationalist fury in Washington unseen since September 11,” Peter Beinart writes for… Read more »
Will local governments build Tunisia’s democracy?
Amid Tunisia’s struggle to democratize following its 2011 Arab Spring revolution, the country’s first-ever elected local governments may offer hope, USIP staff suggest: Tunisia’s 350-plus localities are inaugurating elected councils this summer,… Read more »
‘One-man Marshall Plan’: Was Soros wrong to bet on liberal democracy?
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, philanthropist George Soros [inspired by Karl Popper’s Open Society] poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the former Soviet-bloc countries to… Read more »