If the West provides aid in Afghanistan, it stabilizes the Taliban’s rule. If it does not, the state and society collapse, triggering new streams of refugees. Who could also reach Europe. The images of how thousands of Afghans rushed to the airport after August 15th 2021 hoping to get a seat on an evacuation flight, remain in agonizing memory. Desperate, …

The North African republic is threatening a path to dictatorship. This Monday, the people voted on a constitution written by President Kaïs Saïed himself. The nine million voters were supposed to vote on the new constitution according to the will of their president. But the people in the last democratic country of hope left over from the Arab rebellion are …

Jamal Khashoggi was about to launch a campaign to discredit the use of the social network Twitter by the Saudi regime, when he was assassinated in Turkey. A New York Times investigation reveals how the social network has been infiltrated by the Saudi secret services and how troll farms, paid by the government, crush all attempts at criticism via this …

            The Hungarian anti-democratic drift set in motion by Viktor Orbán seems to indicate that, with a high probability, the next elections in Hungary will not be free and fair. This concern is confirmed by calls from 40 Hungarian NGOs and 70 MEPs for a full-scale election observation mission by the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), …

On July 25th 2021, the tunisian president Kais Saïed decided to dismiss any remaining form of democracy, such as firing ministers, suspending the parliament and closing a news media. Some interpret it as a coup, while the president justify it through the constitution (in case of immininent danger threatening the integrity of the country and the country’s security and indepence, …

Whenever any country makes its first steps towards a more democratic government, we are easily inclined to conclude that it has become a democracy, however, real democracy is more than just elections. Democracy stands for diversity, accountability, and inclusion, it means that politicians and political institutions are willing to respond to the needs of the population, and on the other …

            Mr. Gabriel Boric has been elected the new Chilean president in the recent presidential elections held in November. The leftist candidate has beaten the far-right opponent, José Antionio Kast, in an attempt to revolutionize the Chilean economy and to introduce the new wave in the domestic politics, with the younger generation central to the change.             After years of …

South Korea’s President Moon’s mandate is coming to an end, so it’s time to draw conclusions when it comes to his time in office, on one hand, the economy is currently spiraling, relations with Japan are hitting rock bottom, and Moon’s signature policy of deténte with neighboring North Korea is going nowhere, on the other hand, Moon has been globally …

On the 21st of November 2021, regional and municipal elections took place in Venezuela, granting twenty-one over the twenty-three regions to the government’s party. Despite the general opinion of the international observers that the elections went smoothly, this election only highlighted more the major issues in Venezuela. Does a smooth election means a democratical one? For the first time since …

Since a few months, the tension between China and Taiwan increased drastically, which did not help to ease the US-China’s relationship. Mid-2020 China started to send daily military aircraft flyover near Taiwan’s coasts. It raised international concerns on a potential and imminent attack by China over Taiwan, and by normalizing such threat over Taiwan, China is trying to keep its …