Seorang perempuan berjalan di Raqa, bekas ibu kota Negara Islam Suriah, pada Desember 2020. Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images

Riset: Pembatasan COVID‑19 secara tak terduga telah mengurangi kekerasan ISIS

Pemimpin dunia dan pakar kebijakan luar negeri memperkirakan ISIS akan meningkatkan serangannya selama masa pandemi COVID-19, tapi lockdown justru membantu mempersulit mereka melakukan kekerasan.
A woman walks in Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State, in December 2020. Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images

COVID‑19 restrictions unexpectedly reduced Islamic State violence – political science experts explain why

While some world leaders and foreign policy experts expected IS to increase its attacks during COVID-19’s early days, travel bans and curfews helped slow violence.
In clinging to power, Nicolás Maduro, Hugo Chávez’s handpicked successor, is steering Venezuela’s once-rich democracy to autocracy. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters

Is Democracy Dead or Alive? What democracy exactly are we supposed to nurture?

Democracy takes many forms, some of them democracy in name only. Confusion and misappropriation complicate the public struggle for the democracy to come, but this challenge is always unending.

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