In September, Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, and posted an image
Tag: Global Authoritarianism
From Journal of Democracy This is the golden age of transnational repression, or the targeting of exiles and diasporas by the states they left behind.
Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women and LGBTQ+ people: we have some of the highest rates of femicide
In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 roubles (nearly £900) for giving birth and raising their babies. This new
What is new about the authoritarianism that we are currently witnessing? It is useful to situate this authoritarianism within, and to see it as an
Though often declared dead, the discourse around ‘Asian values’ has had many lives. Authoritarian regimes have deployed culturalist arguments against liberal democracy since the 1990s,
Many people have taken note of recent poll data regarding American attitudes towards Israel, which are (to summarize) cratering. Among Democrats, 69% now view Israel
In the 2010s, Argentina surprisingly became a world leader in trans rights. But now all the gains can be lost. Among the run-down turn-of-the-century buildings
It has now been three years since Putin’s criminal aggression against Ukraine expanded into a full-scale invasion. Hundreds of thousands have been killed, millions of