Power, Not Peace: The Achilles’ Heel of the Olympic Games
By Timothy Sisk The row between International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…
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Explaining Public Attitudes Toward Refugees
Guest post by Burcu Pinar Alakoc Political discourse around refugees and forced migration matters. Research shows that elite…
Civil Society Faces an Uphill Struggle to Defend Democracy
Guest post by Marianne Dahl, Sirianne Dahlum, Hanne Fjelde, and Ida Rudolfsen The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this…
From Manama to Baghdad and Kyiv: Limiting the Risk of Violent Intervention by Authoritarian Neighbors
Guest post by Erwin van Veen Much has been written over the past few years about the global…
Putin’s Playbook
Guest post by Noel Foster Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine appears irrational and self-destructive. After all, he had already…
Five Questions on Kazakhstan Answered
Guest post by Alexander Cooley Russian troops are in Kazakhstan, providing support to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s government after…
The Political Costs of Abusing Human Rights
Guest post by Rebecca Cordell As countries around the world continue to battle a deadly pandemic, another crisis…
Civil Society to the Rescue?
By Evan Perkoski and Erica Chenoweth Widespread pro-democracy protests have engulfed Belarus over claims that the recent presidential…
Explaining Belarus’ Sudden Protest Repression
Guest post by Konstantin Ash and Miroslav Shapovalov. Over the past year, it appeared that Belarus – once termed…
A Symposium on the Crisis in Ukraine
By Rachel Epstein for Denver Dialogues [getty src=”2641661?et=glM2D4y2SK9NIuYjYhPXlw&viewMoreLink=on&sig=glMwrKiLBTZFSXfbv9w0Tjn1E_0KvCC9VGO81Ld6Aps=&caption=true” width=”594″ height=”429″] It’s been well over a year since Russia…