The man in the MAGA cap and the “Size Matters” T-shirt allowed me to take his picture. The “size” in question had to do with ...

Faced with political challenges at home and emboldened by President Trump's dismantling of USAID, the illiberal governments of Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia are cracking down on civil society ...

Violence erupted in Bucharest on Sunday evening after Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau disbarred Calin Georgescu from ...

For too long, we in the West have underestimated Putin’s global ideological vision as an animating force for his foreign-policy agenda. The tragic consequence is that today Putinism is advancing ...

The near-total freeze on foreign aid from the United States has many vocal detractors, but it also has passionate backers—and ...

At the same time, countries across the continent appear increasingly amenable to military rule and the stability it can ...

The aim of MiDem is to understand the role of migrants in the circulation of democratic and illiberal ideas in the Baltic Sea Region. The project establishes international network of migration ...

The political system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is paralyzed due the manipulation of the electoral process by political elites, and is heavily influenced by a long-running conflict ...

Since a peace agreement was reached in 2018, elections in South Sudan have been delayed; elites preside over an uneasy power-sharing arrangement. The country suffers from rampant corruption and dire ...

After the US vice president's speech in Munich, supporters of political liberalism must stop believing their model is hegemonic, and get down to the ideological arena if they hope to convince ...

HAL BRANDS is Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced ...