by Luis Antón Méndez | Sep 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Time and votes simultaneously unveiled themselves in the recent July 2023 elections as Spain looked on a highway to a political block. With traditional socialist PSOE unwilling to reach agreements with its conservative counterpart, PP, support from separatists seems...
by Sofia Walsh | Aug 13, 2023 | Arizona State University
Co-authored by Sofia Walsh and David Thompson The war in Ukraine was a central theme in the March 2023 Estonian election. Like Ukraine, Estonia has a fraught history with its larger neighbor, both being former Soviet republics with shared memories of Russification and...
by Aiselyn Anaya-Hall | Jul 27, 2023 | Arizona State University
Co-Authored by Aiselyn Anaya-Hall and John Kaye Since long before the launch of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the world, and particularly the independent states of the former Soviet Union, have been concerned about invasive and disruptive...
by Carly Chabrier | Jul 24, 2023 | Arizona State University
By Carly Chabrier and Veera Tyhtilä On 23 July 2021, the Ministry of Justice of Belarus forced 43 non-governmental organizations to close and terminate all their activities. Among the terminated organizations were the Union of Journalists of Belarus (BAŽ),...
by Bailey Warren | May 2, 2023 | University of Utah
Researchers posit that increases in certain types of political violence can encourage democratic erosion. Indeed, the analysis of one research study concludes that state-sponsored (or condoned) political violence is one of the greatest risk factors precipitating...