Portugal is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, which marked the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship and the country’s colonial wars in Africa.
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Nicolás Maduro cracks down on civil liberties as Venezuela prepares for its presidential election.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Argentina to commemorate victims of the country’s military dictatorship amid renewed concerns for human rights.
Haiti is descending into anarchy, causing the gang leader behind the violence to emerge as the country’s most powerful leader.
During the Franco dictatorship, Spanish cinema goers were forced to watch the regime’s propaganda newsreels before every film.
Leadership succession can be dangerous for dictatorships, encouraging infighting among political elites and potentially plunging a country into chaos.
When is a dictatorship not a dictatorship? When you’re a New Zealand prime minister and you’re due to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping, that’s when.
The circumstances, challenges and history of Rwanda are intertwined with Paul Kagame’s own life story.
China’s Xi Xinping had trialled his COVID lockdown measures on what he callously called the ‘virus’ of the Uighurs, writes Stan Grant. COVID lockdowns are now over, but the trace of tyranny remains.
Stalin, who died on March 5, 1953, was partially rehabilitated in the decades that followed. These days, he is in some respects a source of inspiration for Vladimir Putin.
In the name of contributing to the reconstruction of Syria, is the EU rehabilitating Bashar Al-Assad?
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
The first people who studied tyranny were the ancient Greeks, an expert says.
These crackdowns are occurring around the world in countries that are becoming less free because of what’s known as ‘democratic backsliding.’
Instigated by multiple governments in South America, Operation Condor resulted in hundreds, potentially thousands, of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings.
Former president Bourguiba’s standing as father of Tunisian feminism has come under scrutiny.
Studies on Ukraine going as far back as the late 1990s and early 2000s showed that the country’s population was connecting less and less with Russia.
Bongbong Marcos is the projected winner of the Philippines election. That the son of a brutal dictator has won shows how wedded the country is to dynastic politics – and image manipulation.
In recent years, Western governments have, in effect, aided the rise of personalist dictators in Russia, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Venezuela.
A provocative short film about a woman and her dog, Bestia highlights the impunity enjoyed by Chile’s military and politicians
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida
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Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs & Associate Professor, School of Public Service; Nonresident Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Boise State University
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Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
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Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bath
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Lecturer, Department of French, University of Cambridge
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University lecturer in African Studies, The University of Edinburgh
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Assistant Professor, History Department; Campus Coordinator for the American Democracy Project, California State University San Marcos
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Associate professor, London Metropolitan University
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
