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In the name of contributing to the reconstruction of Syria, is the EU rehabilitating Bashar Al-Assad?
Republicans and democrats alike have accused each other of threatening the foundations of democracy. How legitimate are these fears?
While Russian public opinion polls show continued support for the war, there are questions about the polls’ reliability and indications that public approval of Putin is declining.
Between the years 2016 and 2020, Canadians were united in their contempt for Donald Trump. What will the impact on Canada and Canadian politics be if he runs again in 2024?
Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is ahead in the polls. But will his authoritarian rival, incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, accept the result if he loses?
The cancellation of the WorldPride 2025 event in Taiwan is not only a loss for LGBTQ+ rights in Asia. It’s also emblematic of the influence of authoritarian regimes worldwide.
China is challenging the idea of democracy, but western leaders are eroding democratic rights too.
Mozambique’s trade unions have not been a strong force in society – which has left a space for others to fill.
In some regions of the country, mothers and fathers have different approaches than their counterparts in other regions.
It’s easy to consider the erosion of democratic norms in the U.S. as purely political, but it poses serious risks to the country’s economic order. Is democracy in the gallows?
Playing out in an animal kingdom, Glory is a devastating political commentary on Zimbabwe today.
For our societies to survive, we must take action to figure out the psychology behind an attraction to tyrants — or we will be led in the future by fear-mongering, war-mongering tyrannical liars.
Dos Santos was a withdrawn president. His silence produced an aura of power and the cult of personality that surrounded him.
The Russian president might claim to be confronting hate speech, but he is drawing on the ideas of anti-Semitic extremists
In democratic contexts, getting women into work empowers them. In autocracies like Ethiopia’s, this doesn’t hold. We found out why.
For more than a decade, the Russian government has been putting teeth into its doctrine of ‘digital sovereignty’ by steadily increasing censorship of content and control over internet access.
An expert on the Human Rights Act explains why the government’s approach has all the hallmarks of authoritarianism.
Colombians go to the polls on June 19 to elect a new president. The vote comes at a delicate time in the country’s politics.
A scholar of Islam writes about how widespread authoritarianism in the Muslim world shapes governments’ foreign policy toward Muslim minorities abroad.
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Associate Professor of Global Business and Board Member of the Institute for Latino and Latin American Studies, St Mary's College of California
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Senior Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Lecturer, London Metropolitan University
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Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin
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Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
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Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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PhD student, Université de Strasbourg
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Chargé d'enseignement International Public Affairs, Sciences Po
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
