New US-China Cold War is ‘desirable’ or ‘not inevitable’?
In the year before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, campuses in China buzzed with debate about how to make the country more liberal. To some intellectuals the West offered… Read more »
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Between controversy and hope: Summit for Democracy
The internal challenges that liberal democracies face has made Western elites more sensitive to the importance of defending and preserving democracy, both at home and abroad. That was the impetus… Read more »
It’s the ideology, stupid: Ukraine’s cause ‘no less vital than Prague Spring’
For civil society, the cause of Ukraine should be no less vital than the defense of the Prague Spring of 1968 against Soviet invasion, observers suggest. Putin must attack Ukraine… Read more »
‘Burner Phone Olympics’ show limits to autocratic solidarity
China today used the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics to present an image of a global power whose authoritarian style of government can go head-to-head with a world dominated… Read more »
Why Ukraine’s success is in our interest – and reflects ideals
Millions of lives were lost just in the 20th century as a result of failed attempts to create an independent Ukrainian state, says Olga Tokariuk, an independent journalist and researcher… Read more »
Authoritarians should be worried: ‘Web3’ is on the way
The Internet once held great promise as a means of empowering individuals, but it has become yet another path of control for bad actors, note analysts Anthony Vinci and Nadia… Read more »
Deploying a democratic arsenal against kleptocracy
President Biden’s democracy promotion agenda includes an anti-corruption strategy with provisions for establishing a kleptocracy asset recovery rewards program to identify illicit funds held in US banks, notes Elizabeth… Read more »
Ukraine: A ‘battle for the future of the West’?
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s entire attitude towards the democratic world changed following the Orange Revolution, says Taras Kuzio, a Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London and author… Read more »
A whiff of Munich in Ukraine crisis? ‘Weakness a provocation to authoritarians’
With the United States and its European allies now struggling to manage the threat of a Russian attack on Ukraine, the 1938 appeasement of Nazi Germany has become an attractive… Read more »
Power Atlas highlights new geopolitical dispensation
Covid-19 has transformed public health into an arena of geopolitical competition; at the same time, pandemics are a global challenge requiring international cooperation, the European Council on Foreign Relations suggests…. Read more »