“Democracy promotion is beset by self-doubt” and facing a threat to its credibility in the face of a “democratic disconnect” between citizens and institutions in established democracies, according to a new report.
An insightful and valuable analysis from the German …
Afghanistan’s parliament has rejected a law banning violence against women in “a severe blow to progress made in women’s rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ago,” Reuters reports:
President Hamid …
As coalition forces prepare to leave Afghanistan, two leading observers consider what the international community should do to ensure that the country’s next elections are freer and fairer than the last.
“Since the U.S. has promised at least $5 …
The failure of young democracies in so many regions of the world has had enormous consequences, writes Joshua Kurlantzick. Most obviously, the renewed strength of authoritarian rule means that billions of people continue to live under repressive or pseudo-democratic …
Of the many mistakes the US and its allies made in Afghanistan, perhaps the most significant was to recruit Hamid Karzai to head the fragile state, says a former official.
“It would be a tragic mistake for the international community to conclude that democracy doesn’t …
A prominent women’s rights advocate in Afghanistan was killed by unknown assailants Monday, officials said:
Two assailants riding a motorbike gunned down Najia Seddiqi as she was heading to her office in eastern Laghman province, said Helai Nekzad, the …
Global megatrends could be leading to a new era of democratization, according to a new report from the U.S. government’s National Intelligence Council.
But that is only one of several scenarios outlined in the report, Global Trends 2030, which …
A former U.S. envoy to Kabul is trying to ensure a smooth transfer of power when President Hamid Karzai leaves office in 2014.
Sakena Jacoobi is an Afghan woman who’s been working on women’s education in Afghanistan for the past several decades, NPR reports. She started in 1995, opening schools for Afghan girls in refugee camps across the Pakistan border. After the …
The forthcoming withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan threatens to boost radical Islamist forces and highlight the United States’ failure to develop “a global strategy to combat extremist Islamist ideology,” says a leading commentator.
“The emergence of democratic governments in …