Putin nemesis planning post-Putin Russia
Most post-Communist countries have made a transition to some form of democratic rule, notes Masha Gessen. Not coincidentally, most of them had a memory of such institutions to build on,… Read more »
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Resistance beats compliance to totalitarian temptation
“Watching the Moon at Night” raises fundamental questions about issues that continue to haunt the modern world, and it also records and presents the views of some leading intellectuals –… Read more »
Ukraine crisis a transformative moment? Overreaching Putin ‘sowing seeds of regime’s demise’?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, surrounded by several top officials, addressed the country Friday night local time from the doorstep of the presidential administration in central Kyiv to show he and… Read more »
Democracies need ‘an alternative ideology’ to defeat autocratic actors
Democracies like Israel can only ultimately defeat autocratic actors like Hamas by “presenting an alternative ideology that is more attractive,” says Yossi Mekelberg, Associate Fellow of the MENA Program at… Read more »
‘Inflection point’ the supreme test of Israel’s democracy
EPIC: UN heads turn & PLO rep’s eyes bulge in stunned disbelief as Palestinian hero Mosab Hasan Yousef, son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, calls out Palestinian Authority oppression… Read more »
Late Putinism: ‘Mafia State’
Russia’s investigative committee said Sunday that it had confirmed via genetic testing that Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash. His death is “par for the course,”… Read more »
‘Force and fear’ delusions that led Putin to war in Ukraine
Three months before Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, an article appeared in the Russian press under the headline “Where has chaos gone? Unpacking instability,” The FT’s… Read more »
Is ‘Great Power Competition’ an illusion?
Although some aspects of the Cold War hold true today, such as the geopolitical rivalry between two powerful countries with dramatically different political systems and ideologies, the integration and interdependence… Read more »
How China is slowly squeezing Taiwan
One big worry for the Taiwanese government is the increasingly authoritarian and opaque nature of Beijing politics, which makes it harder to assess what drives Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s decisions… Read more »
Democracies face ‘greatest challenge’ since Cold War
Democracies and the rules-based international order are facing their “greatest challenge” since the Cold War, said President Tsai Ing-wen (above), calling for greater cooperation by democracies to counter authoritarian regimes…. Read more »