What’s at stake in Ukraine’s election?
Ukraine votes for a president on March 31. Will the pro-Western incumbent, Petro Poroshenko, win? Or will he lose to his old foe, Yulia Tymoshenko, or wild card Volodymyr Zelenskiy?… Read more »
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Time to ‘double down’ on consolidating Iraqi democracy
Iraqis need to consolidate their democracy and eliminate the deficiencies in its foundation and framework, argues Dr. Abbas Kadhim, Senior Fellow and Director of the Iraq Initiative at the Atlantic… Read more »
Oligarchs ‘suffocating’ Eastern Europe’s democracies
Days before the hotly contested Ukrainian presidential election on March 31, incumbent Petro Poroshenko’s party faces credible allegations of voter bribery, notes Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia from 2004 until 2013…. Read more »
Bipartisan initiative reaffirms democratic values, alliances underpinning foreign policy
The U.S. State Department on Wednesday slammed human rights violations in China, saying the sort of abuses it had inflicted on its Muslim minorities had not been seen “since the… Read more »
‘Rethinking Democracy’: designing strategies for resilience and renewal
It is easy to be complacent about democracy, to imagine that it has become permanent and irreversible. But in politics nothing is guaranteed to last for ever, and what seems… Read more »
Nigeria’s flawed poll, corruption, state capture… Africa’s uneven democratic performance
Africa’s citizens demand democracy but do not think they are getting it, observers suggest. Afrobarometer [a partner of the National Endowment for Democracy] describes this sub-category as “dissatisfied democrats.” According… Read more »
Venezuela ‘unraveling’: facing bleak plight?
The United States said Tuesday it would pull its remaining diplomatic personnel from Venezuela, rupturing relations as the country plunges deeper into chaos, the Washington Post reports: The move comes… Read more »
Kremlin Playbook 2: ‘Enablers Ecosystem’ aims to discredit democracy
The United States is allocating $661 million to counter Russian disinformation and propaganda in Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia, Foreign Policy reports. The investment can’t come too soon, a… Read more »
Reawakening the Spirit of Democracy? From collapse/erosion to renewal
Although it is true that more of the world is democratic than ever before, there are signs that progress may soon come to a halt, notes Erica Frantz, an assistant… Read more »
Democracy fosters economic growth (but democratization is no walk in the park)
Democracy fosters economic growth, with researchers finding vast gains in productivity after countries democratize, according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Research shows that when it… Read more »