The Obama administration’s approach to democracy promotion is marked by continuity with its predecessors, says a new analysis. But the bipartisan consensus in favor of advancing democracy may be eroded as the rise of authoritarian powers “will make the projection …

Newly emerging popular movements for reform were the driving force behind the Middle East’s major gains in democratic rights last year, according to Freedom in the World 2013, Freedom House’s annual report. But other regions experienced setbacks due to …

Today is international Human Trafficking Awareness Day – no more appropriate day to view Radio Free Asia’s award-winning series (above) on the issue.  

“Nonprofits are asking the Obama administration to renew the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), which would …

Democracy activists and media analysts will join New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Canadian premier Kim Campbell – now Chair of the World Movement for Democracy – and more than 40 democratic former heads of state and government in New …

Is the conviction that liberal market democracies are best placed to deliver freedom, security and prosperity – widespread after 1945, apparently confirmed after 1989 – being tested?

“The scariest aspect of the current political-economic crisis is that it tests this …

Is democracy losing its global appeal and credibility? Are the economic crises and political paralyses within both the United States and the European Union evidence of “a failure of liberal democracy“?

The giants of the democratic West are …

After Sudan, is Libya next?

External actors’ contribution to shaping constitutional processes in emerging democracies is contentious in the best of circumstances, but an especially sensitive issue in post-conflict settings.

The experience of South Sudan suggests that foreign sources of …

U.S. public support for democracy promotion has hit a new low, while isolationist sentiment is close to the highest levels recorded in over fifty years, according to a new opinion survey.

Only 13% believe promoting democracy abroad should be …

“Is it really possible that in a Democratic administration the championship of human rights and the promotion of democracy will no longer figure conspicuously in the foreign policy of the United States?,” asks The New Republic‘s Leon Wieseltier. Or …

The Internet has had a polarizing effect on democracies, argues Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, who is scheduled to join the Obama administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

He laments the decline of newspapers, magazines, television, and radio …