Tag: Democracy

In 1999, Pierre Poilievre, then a 20-year-old commerce student at the University of Calgary, pulled an all-nighter to enter a national essay contest with the prompt, “As prime minister, I ...

Center-right incumbent Daniel Noboa won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election on Sunday, defeating Luisa González by more than 10 points. Noboa, the 37-year-old son of a banana magnate, earned 55.6 percent ...

In the history of the Middle East, Syria’s current transition to a new form of government is in a category of its own. Desperate the avoid the mistakes that their ...

On Feb. 27, Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), called on the group and its armed affiliates to lay down their weapons and disband. The ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Gabon’s presidential election is won by the man who led the country’s 2023 coup, Sudan enters its third year of ...

One month has passed since U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the virtual demolition of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees congressionally funded but ...

In early April, Ukraine’s leadership quietly began taking preliminary steps toward holding new elections, presumably in the event of a cease-fire. “We see lots of signs of activity at headquarters,” ...

Georgia, which sits at the intersection of Europe and Asia, was once considered a bastion of democracy in the region, but lately it has been forced down a pro-Russia authoritarian ...

Over the past four months, Serbia’s students have effectively challenged the entrenched corruption and state-sponsored violence that have defined President Aleksandar Vucic and his party’s grip on power. Representatives of ...

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would revoke the licenses that allowed companies such as Chevron to sell Venezuelan oil in the United States and international markets, ...