‘Allure of the Illiberal’ prompts democrats’ call to arms
If we fail to learn from the past, we do so at our own peril. That was one of the messages from the Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei to a gathering… Read more »
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Escalating domestic and regional tensions threaten Iraq
A wave of demonstrations protesting a lack of public services and government corruption have tested Iraq’s burgeoning government, while regional tensions have reached new heights, the Hudson Institute observes. Making… Read more »
‘Kleptocratic conspiracy’ pushing Guatemala toward authoritarianism
Hundreds of peasant farmers and indigenous Maya blocked a major highway in Guatemala’s western highlands on Monday, demanding that President Jimmy Morales reverse a policy aimed at forcing a U.N.-backed… Read more »
A Strategy for a New International Order?
The “liberal international order” is one particular type of order, but hardly the only one that is possible, according to Rebecca Friedman Lissner, a Research Fellow at Perry World House,… Read more »
Time to pay attention to Mali’s meltdown
Mali’s president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, may have appointed a prominent democracy advocate as the country’s youngest and first female foreign minister, but he faces a challenge in marrying stability and… Read more »
How India challenges China model
India’s status as the world’s largest democracy and its non-Western identity have buttressed the argument that democracy is a universal idea, says a leading democracy practitioner. In addition, the fact… Read more »
Human rights gone wrong?
In her book Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century (Princeton University Press, 2017), Kathryn Sikkink reminds us that one of the successes of the human rights movement… Read more »
Understanding and countering Russia’s information operations
Russia has tended to use online tools to cause confusion, manifest ethnic tensions and erode trust in democratic institutions. But to understand its information operations, it is important to understand the… Read more »
China’s ‘zombified’ civil society features in new clash of ideologies
China’s ruling Communist Party is pursuing an aggressive, covert infiltration of US educational and social institutions to quell dissenting voices and strengthen its soft power overseas, according to a report… Read more »
Nepal’s Dalit rights movement ‘pressing ahead’ despite government backsliding
Nepal’s government has pledged to come up with an inclusive plan to ensure that payments from the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) benefit all, including the most… Read more »