U.S. President Joe Biden has said the world is at an “inflection point” in a “battle between democracy and autocracy.” Biden maintains that the United States’ free-market, democratic system can ...
ISTANBUL—A light morning drizzle kept Istanbul’s streets fairly empty, but Erdogan Bey decided to venture out anyway, wearing sunglasses and an oversized pinstriped suit. He sat down for a glass ...
Turkey’s election on Sunday was neither triumphant nor terrible for the country’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He didn’t win the majority he needed to remain president for at least ...
Roman Popkov dabbled in Russia’s far-left and far-right political scenes before devoting himself to the armed overthrow of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the name of democracy. In 2011, he ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Ethiopia’s government cracks down in Amhara state, a massacre in Burkina Faso, and Nigeria delays its census. I was recently ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Changes to China’s anti-espionage law threaten to scare off foreign investors, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky connect on ...
Some coups and power grabs start with the arrest of the leader of the political opposition. In Tunisia, it took almost two years for President Kais Saied to jail Rached ...
It’s human to see things through a binary prism: left versus right, drama versus comedy, democracy versus autocracy. But we can oversimplify. The great challenge to freedom comes not only ...
When a judge in India’s Gujarat state sentenced the country’s most prominent opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, to two years in prison last month for a remark personally offensive to Indian ...
As far-right leader Giorgia Meloni swept to victory in Italy’s election last September, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts marched on Rome, many observers wondered if the country ...
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