Russia – ‘These are the dark forces’
As the @NobelPrize-winning Belarusian writer @SAlexievich recently put it to Nina L. Khrushcheva, Vladimir Putin wins “first prize in absurdity.” He “wants to be the worst barbarian on the European… Read more »
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‘Two Sides of the Same Coin’? Africa’s coups and term limit evasions
Africa’s recent coups should not be misinterpreted as reformist, according to a new analysis. Military coups that occurred within already authoritarian governments—Chad, Gabon, Sudan, and Zimbabwe—were led by actors who… Read more »
Hamas: What Palestinians really think
The argument that the entire population of Gaza can be held responsible for Hamas’s actions is quickly discredited when one looks at the facts, according to analysts Amaney A. Jamal… Read more »
‘Post-Traumatic Sovereignty’: Two scenarios for Poland’s election
In our 21st century, every upcoming election seems like the most important in history. The upcoming Polish one is no exception, notes analyst Dalibor Roháč. In the view of opposition… Read more »
Iran’s ‘Soft War’: Ideological crisis threatens regime’s survival
The Islamic Republic of Iran may be gloating* over the Hamas attack on Israel but it has entered a serious domestic crisis that threatens the regime’s long-term survival and that… Read more »
Afropopulism? Africa’s coups reflect deeper crisis
Many Africans have lost faith in democracy, The Economist notes. Afrobarometer, a pollster, found that the share who prefer democracy to any other form of government has fallen from 75%… Read more »
AI accelerating internet freedom decline
WHEN YOU ASK ChatGPT “What happened in China in 1989?” the bot describes how the Chinese army massacred thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. But ask the same question to… Read more »
New alliance for freedom can challenge autocracy ‘from the front lines’
A new “alliance of democracy defenders” is imperative to counter the intensifying cooperation among members of a global “autocratic network,” Venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner Leopoldo López contends… Read more »
What water’s edge? U.S. foreign policy’s surprising bipartisanship
Do domestic political conflicts still stop at the water’s edge, a sentiment first expressed by Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, in January 1945, as he announced his conversion from isolationism to internationalism (as Bruce… Read more »
Democratic backsliding is real, but hard to measure
To support claims of “democratic backsliding” or “autocratisation”, analysts usually turn to annual quantitative scores of countries’ democratic vigor, The Economist observes. These widely cited indices, published by think-tanks like… Read more »