Twenty years ago, the peaceful Rose Revolution was about to transform Georgia, shake the region and put the Kremlin on alert, but between protests Nini Gogiberidze, a co-founder of the Kmara… Read more »
Argentina’s not ready for Javier Milei’s ‘very radical, untested economic ideas’, says Dr Christopher Sabatini, the Senior Research Fellow for Latin America at the foreign affairs think tank, Chatham House…. Read more »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demonstrated the importance of leadership in the country’s resistance, while Russia’s Vladimir Putin personifies leaders’ abuse of power, notes Democracy Paradox’s Justin Kempf. So it’s necessary… Read more »
Ukrainian officials and civil society leaders say no effective elections can be held amid a Russian invasion that now occupies about 18 percent of Ukraine’s territory and has uprooted at least 11 million… Read more »
As Beijing has systematically snuffed out Hong Kong’s democratic ambitions over the last four years, while rewriting the story of the 2019 protests, the official narrative of what happened in… Read more »
Liberal democracy is losing steam, say analysts Ayisha Osori, the Director, Ideas and Fellowship Collaborative at the Open Society Foundation (OSF). Udo Jude Ilo, the Interim Executive Director at the… Read more »
There are many risks that Generative AI pose to democracies, analysts suggest: The opaqueness of AI algorithms at the back end may suppress legitimate political discourse while favoring established opinions … Read more »
A new documentary follows the perilous ‘underground railroads’ defectors need to take to escape from a totalitarian state, The Guardian reports. A regime that revels in its foul reputation internationally… Read more »
The argument that the entire population of Gaza can be held responsible for Hamas’s actions is quickly discredited when one looks at the facts, according to analysts Amaney A. Jamal… Read more »
Don’t flatter the west’s enemies as an ‘axis’ https://t.co/rafK01EliC via @ft — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) October 24, 2023 After the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian… Read more »