Authoritarianism

Remarks from Jameel Jaffer, Just Security Executive Editor and Executive Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

"The United States has a valuable opportunity to help the people of Eurasia emerge from the shadow of the Soviet Union’s legacy. It cannot do that if it shuts its eyes to the…

Downplaying human rights in the name of building an alliance to oppose Russia’s invasion risks strengthening the global autocratic threat of which the Ukraine conflict is only…

"Зараз в Україні усе населення на чолі з мужнім президентом ризикує своїм виживанням або змушене…

The US must take a stand for a population risking its survival or forced to flee in a fight for the ideals that Americans have long espoused.

Instead of buying Putin's claimed sense of military threat, theorists of realism should see the driver in his disdain for democracy.

Movement-building can bring together unlikely bedfellows and allow a diversity of approaches to achieve a shared goal of upholding democracy.

Western donors, civil society, and media partners need to update their views of those who've fled repression.

The $424.4 million plan focuses on media, corruption, reformers, technology, and political processes like elections.

The implicit refutation bolsters an already strengthening opposition without the kind of US interference that tends to generate backlash.

It should create international organizations to build democracy and the rule of law, with the heft of global economic institutions.

Polls show a steady decline. But while the opposition stands a chance, it faces challenges, including the risk of election manipulation.