by Kofi Lee-Berman | Oct 24, 2020 | Williams College
Armenia enters new fighting over an old dispute, and the fledgling democracy’s pursuit of legitimacy is playing a role. Not only was legitimacy instrumental in the ouster of former Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, it has been instrumental in the rhetoric of Nikol...
by Mary Farrell | Apr 13, 2020 | American University
Crises have always created opportunities for undemocratic leaders to consolidate power. Hitler used the Reichstag fire, Alberto Fujimori used the threat of communist violence in Peru, and Vladimir Putin took advantage of the chaos in post-communist Russia. Most...
by David Ahern | Mar 30, 2020 | American University
In 2016, the populist Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) took center stage in Lithuanian politics after unexpectedly winning a plurality in the legislative Seimas (Navickas 2017). The party recruited electable politicians from all corners of politics,...
by Mary Farrell | Mar 19, 2020 | American University
On October 6th, 2018, Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova was found murdered in a park along the Danube. 30-year old Marinova had been a television journalist on Bulgarian channel TVN whose final broadcast before her death featured an interview with two...
by Marina Berardino | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston University
After the fall of communism in 1989, Poland elected its first non-Communist prime minister since the early post-war years. However, some politicians still seemed to have communist ties. To counter this, Jarosław Kaczyński started a far right movement united in the Law...
