On Feb. 17, Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) took his seat before the United Nations Security Council and, in strikingly precise terms, offered his version of the immediate future… Read more »
Like his friend, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin has believed for years that the West is in decline, dysfunctional, and self-obsessed. Domestic political fights, electoral upsets and quarrels among… Read more »
Strategic narratives about the future vary, but they tend to take one of two rough forms, argues Tufts University’s Daniel W. Drezner: Actors with positive expectations believe that the future… Read more »
Despite 16 years of democratic recession, the transatlantic axis remains the “backbone of the Free World,” according to a leading democracy advocate. Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has shattered the… Read more »
It is time to grasp the “opportunity to reinvigorate, strengthen, and modernize approaches” to advancing democracy “in the face of the growing specter of transnational oppression and evidence of a… Read more »
Who knew at the time of Ronald Reagan’s Westminster Address that communism would follow leg-warmers and New Coke into the dustbin of history? Under Secretary of State Uzra Zeya told… Read more »
New research explains how economic interdependence fosters alliances and democracy – and why China’s economic might lacks political clout, The Economist reports. From 1980 to 2010, the more economically interdependent… Read more »
China’s authoritarian surveillance state crushed Covid-19 when it first appeared in Wuhan in early 2020 and trumpeted that success to the world. Now, more than two years later, the Omicron variant… Read more »
Authoritarians are collaborating in their efforts to consolidate power and accelerate attacks on democracy and human rights, according to Freedom in the World 2022: The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule…. Read more »
In the face of increasing geopolitical tensions, liberal democracies appear to feel particularly overwhelmed, according to Turning the Tide – Unlearning Helplessness, the latest Munich Security Report. Yet, despite the… Read more »