by Jamieson Smith | Feb 14, 2025 | Boston University
No longer the “Shining City Upon a Hill” as President Reagan proudly claimed in his parting note in 1989, the U.S. has been demoted from a “full democracy” to a “flawed democracy” – an indictment of the so-called uniqueness of...
by Anusha Anand | Feb 14, 2025 | Boston University
There has been growing international interest in the case of Alaa Abd El Fattah, an Egyptian political prisoner whose sentence was arbitrarily extended by two years in September of 2024. As an outspoken critic of President El-Sisi’s regime, Alaa has been repeatedly...
by Josephine Hale | Feb 13, 2025 | Boston University
In October 2024, mass protests erupted across the nation of Georgia following the release of highly contested election results that extended the power of the ruling Georgian Dream party. Demonstrators numbering in the thousands flooded the streets, rejecting what they...
by Cassandra Fitts | Feb 12, 2025 | Boston University
Former Soviet satellite states that were once poster children for democratization following the decline of European communism have been making drastic pivots towards autocracy in recent years. In 1989 following the fall of the USSR, previously Soviet-occupied Hungary,...
by slifko.8@osu.edu | Nov 4, 2024 | Ohio State University
In the last two years, El Salvador has witnessed an unprecedented state-led crackdown on gang violence under President Nayib Bukele. The policies, which include mass arrests, curfews, and suspension of fundamental rights under an extended state of emergency, have been...
