Twenty years after the collapse of communism, the West should not be complacent about the inevitability of democracy, writes André Glucksmann.

The fall of the Berlin Wall did unleash a “solidarity of the shaken”— a politics of democratic solidarity…

Georgia may be under pressure from its aggressive northern neighbor, but it must first settle its own internal problems by sticking to democratic governance, writes former national-security adviser and foreign minister Tedo Japaridze:

Free-and-fair elections, even ones recognized by …

This week’s meeting of African democracy advocates in Pretoria ended on a high when South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma signed the African Charter on Democracy, Elections, and Governance.  

Only four states – Mauritania, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Burkina-Faso …

An aggressive campaign of covert intimidation was a factor in the low turnout for the recent 22 Bahman protests, Green Movement activists suggest.

RFE/RL’s Iranian Service, Radio Farda gives an insight into the regime’s intimidating tactics, detailing a …

The Obama administration is very sensitive to criticism that engaging autocratic states entails a “realist” calculation to concede human rights and democracy for cooperation on geostrategic policy priorities, writes James Traub.

He quotes a senior official:

“If we were …

The most significant source of dispute between Russia and the West today is not Iran or Afghanistan but Europe’s contested neighborhood, writes Ron Asmus, executive director of the Transatlantic Centre of the German Marshall Fund.

The democratic West’s …

After the death of a prominent dissident prompted international outrage, Cuba’s communist authorities have reacted with a crackdown on the island’s democracy advocates.

Political leaders and human rights groups deplored the passing of Orlando Zapata Tamayo and called on Havana …

“We are living through a period of global backsliding of democracy and autocratic assault on vital freedoms,” Yuri Dzhibladze told President Barack Obama last week.

The head of the Moscow-based Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights…

“Even if you’re well known, you have to campaign,” the instructor began in an introductory course intended to teach what many Americans begin to learn as schoolchildren in their first vote for class president. She went on to caution them …

Beijing’s aggressive response to the Dalai Lama’s meeting with President Obama was predictable, but it said more about the regime than it may have intended:

Much of the reason Tibet touches such a raw nerve in Beijing is that the …