by Tornike Goglidze | Apr 1, 2025 | Tartu University
How tolerating and encouraging violence fuels democratic backsliding in Georgia During the past few months, the streets of Tbilisi—the capital of Georgia—have been constantly crowded with mass protests. The protest is still alive; to this day, it...
by Leon Miller | Feb 14, 2025 | Boston University
For those concerned with U.S. democracy, it should suffice to say that this year has been off to a tumultuous start. With Donald Trump’s return to the White House, exhibiting his all too familiar chaotic bravado, the sphere of public discourse has been upended into a...
by Maura Kitterick | Feb 14, 2025 | Boston University
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, marking the beginning of his second term in the Oval Office. That day, he signed a myriad of consequential executive orders, one of which is Executive Order 14171: Restoring...
by Malak Ibrahim | Feb 14, 2025 | Boston University
Long considered to be the “Middle East’s only democracy,” Israel as it stands today is a shell of the idealistic Jewish utopia its Zionist founder once envisioned. The Israeli government has been under fire in recent months due to its actions in the ongoing conflict...
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,...
