Russian Politics since 1990 witnessed an essential change which was expected to be a democratic transition. However, Putin's presidency beginning with 2000 represented a turning point mainly depending on the power vertical. This stu...
categorized as a “Flawed Democracy”. This places them solidly behind “Full Democracies” in central Europe, but also Costa Rica or Uruguay, and very far from e.g. leading Scandinavian countries or Switzerland. Instead, America is comparable to some countries with little democratic tradition...
Wikipedia’sNebi Musa pagereads like an apology for public violence and murder. At no point in the page is it clearly stated this was an anti-Jewish riot. It is unlikely that anyone reading the page will understand what happened on that day. Rather than talk about the violence and murders...
, which trickled them out during key weeks of the campaign. all of which represents a far more sophisticated and politically savvy attempt to influence the us democratic process than russia had attempted previously, says eric rosenbach, a former assistant secretary of defense for cybersecurity ...
Up until the 19th century, chess players from different countries might have still used different pieces (in Russia, chess sets still had elephants) or played according to local "house rules," but the game became standardized when the first international chess competitions were held. In the 1850...
Audit 2017: How democratic is the Brexit process? Audit 2017: How democratic and effective are the UK’s core executive and government system? Theresa May’s case for withdrawal from the ECHR: Politically astute, legally dubious, constitutionally naïve ...
Russiastrategic narrativesHow can European democratic states respond to Russian information warfare? This article aims to enable and spur systematic research of how democracies can respond to the spread of distorted information as part of information warfare. The article proposes four ideal-type models ...
(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Marie McAuliffe, Head, Migration Research, International Organization for Migration (IOM) The world is in danger of
The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have seen Russia, Israel and Hamas all accused of committing war crimes. The subject of war crimes is also on my mind since I’m living in Tokyo at the moment. Some 100,000 people are thought to have died in the firebombing of this city in a single nig...
The country of North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has an isolated and tightly controlled command economy, which is a standard component of any communist country. Many experts believe that these policies of the North Korean government, beginning in ...