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How Thai Activists Outsmarted the Generals

The regime tilted the playing field to its advantage, but it didn’t matter. Thailand’s opposition won with creativity, shrewd tactics, and a strategy that united the people.

Is Ukraine Too Corrupt to Join the EU?

Maria Popova

Despite the country’s steady progress fighting corruption, even in wartime, skeptics warn it’s not enough. But this is just an excuse. Their real concern is how Putin’s Russia would respond.

What the Freedom Agenda Can Still Teach Us

Many derided it as naïve idealism, but the vision undergirding the Freedom Agenda offers lessons for the biggest global tests of our time.

Why Kenya’s GEN Z Has Taken to the Streets

Judy Mbugua

The country’s young people are no longer willing to accept politics without accountability, and the government’s repressive crackdown is only fueling their movement. GEN Z is reshaping the future of Kenyan democracy.

Why Putin Must Be Defeated

Andrei Kozyrev

The more determined democracies are to avoid war, the greater the risk that autocracies will wage it.

Why Georgia’s Democracy Is Collapsing

The ruling party is growing more repressive as it draws from Vladimir Putin’s playbook. If the opposition is to push back successfully, they must first unify.

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The Puzzle of the Chinese Middle Class

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The Man Who Dared to Change the World

Lilia Shevtsova

Mikhail Gorbachev risked everything. Neither Russia nor the West could live up to his vision.

Can Claudia Sheinbaum Emerge from AMLO’s Shadow?

León Krauze

She was just elected Mexico’s first woman president in a landslide. The future of Mexico’s democracy rests on whether she can break from her predecessor’s ways and carve her own democratic path.

Why Germans Are Rallying Against the Far Right

Michael Bröning

Hundreds of thousands of Germans are taking to the streets in protest against the country’s far-right parties. Will it shift the tide or leave Germany further divided?

The Most Important Elections You Just Missed

India just held five state elections that did more than declare winners and losers: They offered a roadmap for how to win the national contest in the world’s most populous democracy next year.

How the World Stands Up to Putin

His military didn’t just fail. Ordinary Ukrainians, Russians, and people across the globe are creatively and nonviolently protesting Putin’s war on Ukraine, and they are making a difference.

Why Georgians Won’t Give Up

Ghia Nodia

Even as the ruling party has grown more repressive, the people have swarmed the streets in protest — every day. The protesters know the government’s true goal is to appease Russia, and Georgians will never accept it.

Is This the End of the Duterte Dynasty?

Police in Manila arrested former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte on an ICC warrant for crimes against humanity. His daughter, Vice-President Sara Duterte, was impeached a month ago. The following Journal of Democracy essays chart the twists and turns of Philippine politics and the long-running feud between the Duterte and Marcos political clans.

Will Putin Outlast the War?

Maria Snegovaya

Russia’s autocrat may be weakened, but his grip on power is greater than many people realize.

Georgia’s Battle for Freedom

Ghia Nodia

Georgians have returned to the streets to fight for their country’s future. They refuse to let it slip quietly into the autocracy the ruling party seeks.

Why Aspiring Autocrats Are Watching Serbia

Filip Milačić

Aleksandar Vučić is tearing down what remains of Serbian democracy while the West remains silent. Serbia has become a test case for democratic resolve, and the region’s would-be strongmen are taking notice.

Putin’s Big Gamble

Robert Person

The Kremlin’s order to call up Russians to fight in Ukraine risks massive protests. It’s the riskiest decision of Putin’s rule, and it could lead to his undoing.