Protected: The Cyberwar Against Taiwanese Democracy
Taiwan, the small island democracy off the coast of China, is under invasion....
Universities
Checks and Balances in Mongolia and the United States- Malak Arafa
Mongolia and the United States are both prime examples of how weakened checks on the executive branch can lead to a lack of trust in democratic...
Access to Political power by Max Krause
The last remnants of overt authoritarianism in the United States have become besieged by powerful social movements. The American Civil war was...
Is Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić an Autocrat, and Can Serbians Stop Him? by Madalene Smith-Huemer
Since the ousting of Serbia’s former President and war criminal Slobodan Milošević in 2000, Serbia has made strides toward a parliamentary...
Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold: Chavez playbook on the current Venezuelan crisis. By David Ardila
The Venezuelan regime has essentially run out of vocal supporters in the international scene. A decade ago, several prominent public figures and...
Erosion of Media Pluralism in Albania By Stiv Mucollari
During the communist era in Albania, the Party of Labor controlled the media. Albania had only one-state owned television station and two daily...
Twitter as a Populist Platform
It’s 2019 and President Donald Trump’s twitter antics have become an accepted norm of life. Gone are the days of amicable tweets depicting...
William Barr as AG – just another step in stealth authoritarianism by Guilherme Soares
William Barr began his second term as Attorney General of the United States on February 14th, 2019. His nomination and confirmation came during...
“They Can’t Kill Us All” – Press Freedom in Hong Kong, the Threatened Democratic Harbor by Josie Lui
Two decades after the handover in 1997, many have observed the rapid decline of press freedom in Hong Kong, especially since Chinese President Xi...