Tag: Democracy

The DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence model has been a wake-up call for the U.S. technology sector, prompting calls for stricter export controls to curb China’s access to advanced technologies. But as ...

It took longer than expected, but South Korea’s Constitutional Court finally pushed the flaming wreckage of Yoon Suk-yeol’s presidency overboard. His illegal declaration of martial law in December, apparently intended ...

As it prepares to hold a rerun of its presidential election on May 4, Romania is improbably at ground zero of a new global struggle. A first effort at balloting ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is accused of having started a global trade war. That’s wrong. The U.S. Congress is responsible for it, and only the U.S. Congress can stop it. ...

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 ...