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 »
A coalition of forty Ukrainian civil society groups today issued The Kyiv Declaration, a six-point appeal to the West’s democracies, listing urgent humanitarian and military demands. “There is no free… Read more »
Many Colombians, tired of the country’s prolonged period of polarization, hoped this would be the year things changed, according to Theodore Kahn and Sylvana Amaya, senior analysts in Control Risks’… Read more »
How much of a challenge does China’s political model pose globally? That’s the principal question posed by The Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest annual Democracy Index. The potency of this political… Read more »
Less than half (45.7%) of the global population lives in a democracy – a pronounced decline from 2020 (49.4%), according to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual Democracy Index. Even fewer… Read more »
This week, a major university in D.C. found itself in the position of censoring criticism of the Chinese government by removing art posters highlighting Beijing’s human rights abuses during the… Read more »
Latin America is one of the world’s most dangerous regions for human rights defenders, accounting for more than three-quarters of all murders of activists in 2020, according to a new… Read more »
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 »
Developments in 2021 may have laid a new foundation for a more assertive approach to democracy support on the part of the European Union, a new analysis suggests. The year… Read more »
As democracy backslides globally, the European Union should expand its Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime to include more countries, companies and individuals that commit severe human rights violations, says a… Read more »