Pinning down Putin: How to deal with Russia
President Vladimir Putin’s opponents agree a nationwide vote next month that could extend his rule is a sham, but are split over whether to campaign for a “No” vote or… Read more »
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Autocrats capitalize on U.S. crisis: Soft power ‘draining away’
Some are calling it America’s Second Civil War, others say it’s a repeat of 1968’s summer of protests. Still more believe we’re in a decades-long existential crisis that started with… Read more »
‘Nuclear option’ spells beginning of the end for Hong Kong’s one-country, two-systems
SPORTING A HELMET, goggles and a respirator, the uniform of Hong Kong’s anti-government protesters, Lady Liberty raises her left arm to the sky—or rather, to the ceiling (see below). She… Read more »
Geopolitics after Covid-19: A pandemic turning point?
COVID-19 is deepening the “democratic recession,” Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute, told a Hoover virtual policy briefing, the Stanford Daily’s Anna Milstein… Read more »
Authoritarian challenges compromising the knowledge economy
In light of growing concern about malicious disruption during the global crisis, the United Nations’ Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) is playing a leading role in further developing a common framework… Read more »
Will Covid-19 prompt breakdown of democratic regimes?
Halfhearted reform in response to the COVID-19 crisis will simply renew the invitation to populists to take up arms against liberal democracy, a leading analyst suggests. A cautionary tale lies… Read more »
Coronavirus compensation: Exposing China’s culpability
The Wuhan Virus and the attendant misery that the Chinese communist state has unleashed upon the world (very much including its own people) has laid bare a core structural flaw… Read more »
COVID-19 crisis: Historical turning point or acceleration?
Pandemics exact a terrible human toll, but history suggests that they can also be catalysts for political and social renewal. Liberal capitalism is bust. Post-liberal government will be the… Read more »
COVIS-19: Democracies must offer alternative to authoritarian solutions
The wider geopolitical effect of the COVIS-19 pandemic will likely turbocharge trendlines that were already creating a much more complicated and competitive landscape for the United States, argues William J. Burns,… Read more »
Dismantling democracy? Covid-19 used as excuse to quell dissent
Hungary’s parliament endorsed a bill on Monday giving nationalist premier Viktor Orban the sweeping new powers he says he needs to fight the new coronavirus pandemic. Critics at home and… Read more »