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What’s the Future for France’s Democracy?

French President Emmanuel Macron is going to face off against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen on Sunday in France's second round presidential...

What Putin's actions during the Russo-Ukrainian, Russo-Georgian, and Second Chechen war tell us about the threats he poses to Democracy worldwide...

Europe has enough democratic threats currently underway, but we cannot lose focus on efforts of democratic backsliding happening in France. With...

Many would characterize India as the world’s largest democracy. Even the current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has called India “The mother of...

Discussions of democratic erosion tend to focus on the negative: obstacles facing pro-democratic movements, the rise of populism, or the horrific...

The recent Russian invasion of Ukraine has dominated political discussions shifting the focus of the world towards Eastern Europe as the current...

In a public appearance at Stanford, former president Barack Obama called for greater “regulatory oversight” of large social media giants. He...

Nearly five years after the famous Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, independence fighters re-emerged in the spring of 2019 with a vengeance in order...

In the past decade, the number of successful coups was on a steady decline, with a max of two successful coups in a year between 2015 and 2020....