Are We Overestimating Autocracies?
Leading military analysts predicted that Russia would easily roll over Ukraine in February 2022. They also forecast that any strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would lead to devastating retaliation and ...
Tag: Authoritarianism
Trump’s War on Crime Is a War on Democracy
Last week, the Trump administration proudly posted footage of the U.S. military carrying out the apparent extrajudicial execution of 11 unidentified men on a boat in the Caribbean. At the ...
Can Tunisia’s Largest Labor Union Survive Saied?
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: The Tunisian General Labour Union stages a major protest to counter the Saied regime, Mali’s junta charges former Prime Minister ...
The Generation Iranian Hard-Liners Have Been Waiting for
In the weeks following the Israeli strikes on Iran in June, something unusual happened. For decades, Iranians had been among the most pro-American populations in the Middle East. They were ...
The Gen Z Candidate Calling for a ‘Humane Foreign Policy’
Kat Abughazaleh is 26 years old, has personally faced the wrath of the world’s richest person, and is up against two career politicians in a congressional district that has not ...
How China’s Crackdown Has Reshaped Hong Kong
Monday marks five years since China imposed a draconian national security law on Hong Kong, criminalizing dissent and bringing the semi-autonomous city to heel after months of pro-democracy, anti-government demonstrations ...
Harvard Should Prepare to Move Abroad
U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to bully Harvard University into submission. Under the guise of promoting “viewpoint diversity,” his administration has canceled all of the university’s federal grants and ...
‘Andor’ Is a Lesson in Building Rebellion
In the early months of the Syrian Civil War, a journalist friend covered a massacre clearly perpetrated by government forces near Homs. There was an unanticipated roadblock to publication, though; ...
Bukele’s Anti-Crime Model Has Its Limits
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, is on a roll. At home, he enjoys an approval rating of around 83 percent, according to recent polls. His profile is rising abroad, too. ...
What Regime Change Means in Iran
Israel’s relentless war on Iran is likely to fundamentally reshape the trajectory of the latter’s history. But this is not likely to be a regime change as it’s typically imagined, ...
