Democracies under pressure: More and more countries are slipping into authoritarian systems of government, democracies are on the defensive, according to the Bertelsmann Stiftung's (BTI) new ...

Most of us like to believe we would have opposed the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. We may even like to imagine that we would have bravely fought for the resistance to Nazism in the 1940s. But would ...

"No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy," observed Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in his 1999 book "Development as Freedom." The answer is a ...

When we think of premodern governance, we often default to an image of concentrated authority: imposing rulers presiding over intricately layered hierarchies—pharaohs, emperors, and kings whose power ...

Protests erupted in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, in October 2020 following disputed parliamentary elections. Only four political parties out of 16 had passed the threshold for entry into ...