An expert helps explain why people don’t always immediately push back when politicians attack their democracies.
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Because the US government has rarely offered full-throated support for the arts, there’s a long tradition of innovation, adaptation and collective action among American artists.
Good resistance fighters aren’t scared to take risks.
Georgian legislation directly mirrors a contentious law Russia passed more than a decade ago to stifle dissent and quash the power of civil society groups.
We tend to underestimate the threat of rare events but we can prime ourselves to be more alert to the signs.
The world needs to act to inoculate ourselves from the slow burn effect of a world made safe for autocracy rather than democracy.
What’s happening now in Washington, DC, is different from most presidential transitions − in volume, pace, content and breadth of the changes ordered.
There have been 46 attempted self-coups since the end of World War II – 80% have succeeded. So what went wrong for South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol?
In the space of just a few hours, South Korea looked to be backsliding toward autocratic rule.
Donald Trump’s return has normalised and supercharged authoritarianism internationally, making it the rule rather than the exception.
George Orwell, who wrote about war, totalitarianism, nationalism and patriotism in the 1940s, would have had a lot to say about Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric.
In Autocracy Inc., Pulitzer winner Anne Applebaum suggests there is a “network” among the world’s autocrats, which they use to further their aims and undermine democracy. But is there?
Maduro declared winner in Venezuelan election, and world leaders have made clear their suspicion.
Kurds have had a history of discrimination perpetrated against them by the Turkish government.
Georgians have taken to the streets to protest a Putin-style ‘foreign agents’ law.
The potential repeal of the ban on female genital mutilation poses a threat to the well-being of girls in The Gambia.
The Arch of Reunification has been destroyed – reversing decades of government policy targeting eventual reunification with the South.
Africa’s youth are not countering the deepening of autocratisation across the continent.
More autocratic governments, growing urbanization and emerging technologies will bolster the spread of Chinese influence around the world, an expert on emerging economies explains.
Nelson Chamisa defines himself as a social democrat who believes in providing substantial welfare to support healthcare and basic education.
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Professor of Classics and the Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Wayne State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Visiting Fellow at the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of International Affairs, Penn State
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Researcher - African Security - One Earth Future Foundation, University of the Witwatersrand
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Doctoral Student in Political Science, University of South Carolina
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology and International Development, University of Sussex
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Research Associate, Institute for the Study of the Asia Pacific, University of Lancashire
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LSE Fellow in Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Research Fellow and Cluster Leader, Power and Popular Politics research cluster, Institute of Development Studies
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Associate professor, University of Cape Town