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New US sanctions against Venezuela deliver a clear condemnation of the Maduro regime's authoritarian maneuvering but overlook two key problems: Russian meddling and the humanitarian crisis.
Venezuela's opposition has called a 48-hour strike to stop the Maduro government from rewriting the nation’s constitution. But grassroots democracy may not be able to save the Bolivarian Republic.
The best news and analysis of Venezuela's dangerous descent into crisis, written by local economists and political scientists who are living it every day.
Zambia has gone from a country where people engaged freely in open political debate to one where most people now look over their shoulders to see who’s listening.
While democracy is struggling globally and especially in Asia, Mongolians continue to vote and engage.
Amid the rising forces of populism and nationalism, it's easy to fear a new age of tyranny. But history proves tyrants are often no match against democracy and its defenders.
According to famed anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, the central question of our times is whether we’re witnessing the worldwide rejection of liberal democracy and its replacement by some sort of populist…
Zambia's president is securing powers to consolidate his political control while generating 'plausible deniability' to whether or not he has fatally undermined democracy.
As democracy unravels and hunger spreads, Venezuelan youth must decide whether to join the resistance or build their lives abroad.
An expert on Islam and democracy examines the threat to the world's largest Muslim majority country.
Some 60,000 Brazilians are killed each year, accounting for 10% of all homicides worldwide. As terrorised voters look to authoritarian leaders to impose order, Brazil's democracy hangs in the balance.
The leaders of Turkey and India have plenty in common.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES (UPDATED) Hungary has passed a law monitoring the finances of foreign-funded NGOs, another blow to civil society in Viktor Orban's increasingly "illiberal democracy".
As Solzhenitsyn saw it, simple truths are always a threat to totalitarianism.
After years of creeping authoritarianism, Turkey's president is now set up to take the reins in earnest.
Turkey's referendum could lead to a tremendous change in the country's political development, leading to an extremely autocratic regime.
Whatever the result of Turkey's long-awaited vote on presidential powers, things will get worse before they get better.
Recent elections in Latin America have suggested a retreat from left-wing politics and populist leaders. But results from Ecuador's 2017 presidential election suggest otherwise.
If the 'yes' vote prevails in this month's constitutional referendum, the Turkish people may be in the rare position of democratically approving the death of their own democracy.
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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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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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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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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Assistant Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin
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Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Director of the Center for Political Studies, Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB)
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Enseignant-chercheur - Ecole navale, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)
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