Trust is a critical ingredient for cultivating a robust civil society and resilient democracy, analysts attest. By the mid-1990s, several Western democracies, including the United States, were showing signs… Read more »
Michael Anthony Samuels, a two-time U.S. Ambassador and pillar of the African policy and trade policy communities, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully the evening of August 8, 2022, of… Read more »
Why do dictatorships emerging from social revolutions endure, even in the face of economic crisis, policy failure, mass discontent, and external pressure? In Revolution and Dictatorship, Steven Levitsky and Lucan… Read more »
It is a misconception that China’s leaders aim to export authoritarianism: it is less interested in regime type than in gaining buy-in for its interests, according to a new analysis…. Read more »
A promising cross-sector initiative has the potential to create a platform for advancing democracy in the Indo-Pacific region, says a leading protagonist. At a recent forum of the Sunnylands Initiative,… Read more »
Pashtana Rasool (below) was involved in spearheading democratic efforts in Afghanistan as the Executive Director of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization or AFCECO, Una Hajdari writes for Euronews. … Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »