by Lucy Rothe | Mar 3, 2025 | The University of Alabama
The growing unpopularity for America providing foreign aid to Ukraine during its conflict with Russia signals a troubling shift towards isolationism. The United States, the world’s most involved superpower, retreating from fighting against an authoritarian sets a...
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 Clara Cho | Feb 13, 2025 | Boston University
On December 3, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Seok Yeol declared martial law, causing widespread panic throughout the nation. His declaration was made in order to protect the country from supposed North Korean sentiments from opposition parties. However, it was...
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 Kutlu Acun | Feb 5, 2025 | Sabanci University
Recently party politics agenda has been occupied by the debates of rising right-wing extremism, challenging and changing the status quo in many countries. The discussion around extremism(s) attaches specific importance to populist and authoritarian tendencies gaining...
