If it is to survive, a multipolar world will require more, not less, international cooperation to tackle climate change and ...

Democracies facing authoritarian threats from within have found ways to push back by strengthening institutions, reinforcing ...

What old-school civics taught us about checks and balances isn’t working. The absence of a will to fight, to defend the ...

What is happening in America today is the same scene that has played out in various countries across the globe in the 21st ...

"We often think that courts or legislatures can be a check, but what our research shows is that those checks are not neutral, ...

The facts are clear: Democracy is backsliding around the world. In 2024, more than 40 percent of the global population was ...

University of Virginia professor John Owen IV is the winner of the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for World Order ...

Another small South Asian country, the Maldives has defied India’s overt political interference and elected Mohamed Muizzu, ...

Around the globe, liberal humanism is faltering while the forces of reactionary cruelty are on the march. So Sheinbaum, who ...

Evidently, democracy is also weakening in hitherto well-established liberal democracies, even as autocracy deepens in others.

And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972. As great-power ...

At the moment, unfortunately, it seems more likely that Europe will be the last powerful holdout in a world entering a new ...