President Donald Trump is wasting no time in carrying out his goal of throttling the free press. Over the first two weeks of ...

Global LGBTQ organizations are recalibrating their strategies to fight back against the anti-LGBTQ wave around the world.

In this contribution, I am analysing the reasons for the appropriation of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. I argue that these ...

When Elon Musk marked Donald Trump’s inauguration with what seemed very much like a Nazi salute and was defended by a lobby ...

You don’t become a plutocrat of modern American capitalism without knowing all the right things to say in the public square. Among the managerial and strategic skills and others needed to get to the ...

Barely one week into his refurbished presidential tenure, America's Donald Trump seems poised to set new precedents in the model of the Presidency as the pinnacle of America's democracy. An elected ...

Civil society, the media and democratic norms have increasingly come under threat as the Fidesz-KDNP coalition government in Hungary.

Days after Trump tapped the Fox News personality Pete Hegseth for defense secretary, Hegseth condemned the United Nations as “a fully globalist organization that aggressively advances an anti-American ...

An illiberal version of “democracy” then emerges, which – in the name of the people – attacks the checks and balances that are crucial to liberal democracy. That seems to be what is ...

Trump’s agenda erodes American democracy and our ability to work ... and back far-right illiberal opposition leaders such as Marine Le Pen in France, Alice Weidel in Germany, and elements ...

This book examines Western efforts at democracy promotion, reactions by illiberal challengers and regional powers, and political and societal conditions in target states. It is argued that Western ...