Williams College

Social Media and Mass Mobilization in Algeria

In February 2019, Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared his intention to run for a fifth term. This message was released through state...

For some Americans, Canada appears to be a liberal—albeit slightly cold—utopia. While at the national level U.S. politics has fallen into...

Bulgaria, named an European Union (EU) member state in 2007, has been witnessing signs of democratic backsliding consistently since then. A...

The scene in El Salvador’s legislature in February 2020 appeared to come straight out of a dictatorship: Armed Forces and National Civil Police...

The Western media has been hyper-focused on the American presidential election, and rightfully so. American media outlets have much domestic...

In 2004, in a small dorm room at Harvard University, Facebook was born. A platform initially designed for American college students to network...

Armenia enters new fighting over an old dispute, and the fledgling democracy's pursuit of legitimacy is playing a role. Not only was legitimacy...

The technology and social media that we are seeing today have made it more possible for coordinated and uncoordinated state actors to influence...

Since 2015, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party has engaged in a systematic effort to remake their courts in the name of unrooting corruption...