Does the Global Consensus on Apartheid in South Africa Hold Clues for the Uyghurs?
Guest post by Maria Lotito A new report from the United Nations finds that China may have committed…
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Are Digital Technologies Helping Autocrats Stay in Power?
Guest post by Tiberiu Dragu and Yonatan Lupu In the early days of the ongoing war in Ukraine,…
Why Do Mass Protests Fail?
Guest post by Kana Inata In January 2006, when the scandals of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came…
Digitally Fueled Civil Resistance and Repression in Myanmar
Guest post by Kyungmee Kim and Espen Geelmuyden Rød The aftermath of the coup in Myanmar illustrates how…
An Illustrated Glossary of Political Violence
By Emily Hencken Ritter and Christian Davenport. Art by Sequential Potential. On January 6, 2020, a pro-Trump mob…
Authoritarian Tactics on US Soil
By Danielle Lupton, David T. Burbach, and Lindsay P. Cohn Over the past two weeks, Department of Homeland…
Humiliation is the Key to Understanding Widespread Rebellion
Guest post by Mustafa Kirişçi and Ibrahim Kocaman George Floyd suffered the humiliation of dying when a police…
Yemen’s Proxy Wars Explained
By guest contributor Tyler B. Parker, and permanent contributor Peter Krause Five years ago today, Yemen became a…
Fissures in Sisi’s Egypt, and the New Wave of Protests Across the Middle East
Guest post by Kelsey Norman Egypt has arguably seen the most heavy handed retrenchment of authoritarianism in the…
The Case of the Missing Dictators
By Barbara F. Walter. Two weeks ago I asked why so many African dictators resigned in the short…