Nigeria’s diversity is given political expression in federalism, but shared problems have a unifying effect across state, class, religious and ethnic lines, writes Dave Peterson, the National Endowment for Democracy’s Africa Program Director, who recently returned from an …
The worldwide practice of investigative reporting has grown dramatically since the fall of communism began in 1989, writes David E. Kaplan, director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. The field’s emphasis on public accountability, targeting of crime and corruption, …
December’s meeting of the UN World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai is “causing alarm” amongst freedom of expression advocates, as authoritarian regimes mobilize to push through new curbs on internet freedom.
“The future of the internet is …
….. plus dissident Vietnamese bloggers, using technology to drive political change, and a host of other issues are addressed on the must-read Digital Mash-Up from the Center for International Media Assistance, including:
Up to 30,000 Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest this week (above) to protest against a new constitution that critics say threatens to institutionalize de facto one-party rule.
“Monday’s protests were significant as well as symbolic,” says The Economist…
Wednesday, December 7. Which Way Forward for Egypt?
Egypt’s first parliamentary elections are taking place against a backdrop of an incoherent electoral system, a resurgence of mass demonstrations, state violence, and increasing political and social polarization. With the integrity of …
Salafist militants recently attacked the home of a Tunisian TV executive after his station broadcast Persepolis, an animated film depicting the life of a young girl growing up in Iran’s Islamic Republic.
They probably won’t like Zahra’s Paradise either.…
Do growing international isolation and widening internal divisions indicate that Syria’s Baathist regime is facing its endgame?
“We are now entering a process of the gradual delegitimisation of the regime,” says Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Centre, …
“An Ecuadorian judge has ordered three executives and a former columnist from one of the country’s major newspapers, each to be jailed for three years and, along with the daily, to pay President Rafael Correa a total of $40 million …
December 1, 2010. Taiwan Democracy at Home and Abroad: Domestic Elections and Cross-Strait Relations. Speakers: Robert Sutter, visiting professor at Georgetown University; Liu Shih-chung, research fellow at the Taiwan Brain Trust; David Brown, adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School …