Authoritarianism

Americans and the free world must take notice: a threat to press freedom anywhere is a threat to press freedom everywhere. The morning of my arrest felt like any other...

The pieces are in place to deal a decisive blow against Iran and, by extension, its Russian and Chinese compatriots. China, Russia, and Iran have congealed into a Eurasian Entente...

There are two main approaches to the future: prediction and planning. Prediction often falters in the face of an increasingly complex and interconnected world, where countless variables elude full comprehension....

President-elect Trump believes that the United States has no important interests in Syria, or so he tweeted last week. This announcement has strengthened the view of some in the restraint...

Georgia is backsliding. In October, deeply flawed parliamentary elections confirmed a renewed mandate for the country’s ruling party, against the will of the Georgian people. A brutal governmental crackdown on...

With Donald Trump sweeping to victory in the U.S. presidential election fueled by the economic anxieties and frustrations of working-class voters across ethnic and racial lines, let’s hope he rethinks...

The Russia-Ukraine war has become a battleground not just for territorial control but for humanity’s future, drawing actors from around the world into a high-stakes struggle to reshape the global...

The upcoming decade will continue to test democracies, particularly in developing countries. Their resilience, as Ukraine has demonstrated amid a full-scale invasion, depends on the potential of civil society. In...

A report by the Turkish pro-government think tank SETA confirms what the Turkish local elections in March indicated. There is a paradigm shift underway in Turkey. The ruling AKP (Justice...

We are now, once again, living in the preliminary phase of an international confrontation that will rapidly evolve into a world war if the democracies do not shore up nuclear...

While the Russian-Ukrainian War is only one symptom of broader destructive international trends, its outcome will co-determine the direction of the world’s development.  Popular yet imprecise expressions like the “Ukraine...

While the world’s attention focuses on the U.S. presidential election and the conflict in the Middle East continues to escalate, the Russo-Ukrainian War grinds on. The war represents not only...