Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
But there was no local governance. There was no opportunity to participate. And what Afghans really wanted after all these years was really a chance to participate and they were never given that opportunity.
International law constrains the United States action a lot more than people would probably think....so, legally it constrains it.
pernicious polarization is when a society divides into two camps that have mutual distress and dislike of each other
It's moved from the sphere of chest thumping into the sphere of reality, and it's affecting election workers, volunteer poll workers, school boards, you know, really the kind of warp and weft of our democratic system.
Now unfortunately, the protests didn't go on long enough for there to emerge a very strong leader of these protests...they were headless protests.
It was on economic issues, but they quickly moved toward more political issues, and then these protests merged with violent groups
By inviting the CSTO, Kazakhstan has sacrificed its symbolic if not outright legitimacy to foreign powers. For 30 years, the country's leaders have proudly proclaimed its sovereignty
Sometimes backward motion on democracy in a country affects our hard interests. It's not just a values issue, it affects our hard interests
Despite soaring inflation rates and dwindling currency reserves, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan remains committed to the Turkish Growth Model. Beyond monetary policy, Turkish foreign policy is being recalibrated to account for the country’s political, business, and economic interests.
As you know, democracy is not just electing and going to vote every four years, democracy requires the checks and balances to ensure that there's no monarch