Myanmar Diaries – ‘a story of human dignity’
Myanmar Diaries, which won the Best Documentary Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, is a hybrid documentary made by 10 anonymous Burmese citizens who are part of the Myanmar Film Collective…. Read more »
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A tale of two dictators: The Stalinization of Russia
Stalin was a Marxist, while Putin is a 21st-century tyrant, populist and nationalist, a practitioner of 21st-century identity politics who deploys old-fashioned military heavy metal and the new hi-tech… Read more »
Revenge of the Patriarchs: Why Autocrats Fear Women
In response [to the authoritarian resurgence], we’ve seen an unprecedented number of mass pro-democratic social movements rising up to resist the autocratic tide, says Erica Chenoweth. Many of these—in places… Read more »
‘Grand strategic mistake’: Ukraine spells the ‘beginning of the end’ for Putin?
History has accelerated; the impossible has become possible. Shifts that no one imagined two weeks ago are unfolding with incredible speed, notes Anne Applebaum, the author of Twilight of Democracy: The… Read more »
‘Offshore Cold War’: Expunging transnational kleptocracy
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlights the “existential battle between democracy and money,” according to Oliver Bullough, the author of a new paper from the International Forum for Democratic Studies at… Read more »
‘Shock to the System’: Unexpected paths to democratization
So many cases of democratization start with a period of elite political violence where the initial stages have nothing to do with democratization, says George Washington University’s Michael Miller, the… Read more »
Victory of a Defeat? Ukraine invasion ‘plants a bomb under Russian state’
A completely unnecessary war has started, born out of one man’s nostalgia, paranoia and fear of losing power, Anne Applebaum tweeted. Like the Russian czars before him—like Stalin, like Lenin—Putin… Read more »
Ukraine: ‘What Putin Fears Most’
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO membership was often seen as a path toward EU integration among the new democracies of central and eastern Europe. But since NATO… Read more »
‘Breaking the Impasse’? Jordan’s democratic reforms
Jordan is currently wrestling with a bold timeline of democratic reforms introduced by a royal commission in October 2021 and ratified by parliament in January, notes a new report from… Read more »
Exposed: ‘The Plot to Destroy Ukraine’
The head of an organization that’s battled Russian disinformation in Ukraine since President Vladimir Putin last sent troops into the country in 2014 tells CBS News the United States has… Read more »