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President Jacob Zuma and Xi Jinping co-chair the opening ceremony of the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China -Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), 2015

Five Questions on China in Africa and the Middle East

Dawn Murphy

Blog / July 13, 2026

A collage of book covers, including "Animal Farm", "Parable of the Talents", and "The House of the Spirits"

Novels on Authoritarian Rule IV: Summer Reading Edition

Matthew Draper and Stephan Haggard

Blog / June 02, 2026

Vladimir Putin with Viktor Orbán on a visit to Hungary in February 2015

Five Questions on How the Council of Europe Deals with Putin

Jana Lipps

Blog / June 01, 2026

Photo of the sky view with different countries flags lined up in a row.

Five Questions on Polarization and International Politics

Rachel Myrick

Blog / April 15, 2026

Photo shows a person holding the Bangladesh flag running through a field.

“Free at Last”: What Bangladesh’s Interim Government Can Teach Other Countries in Transition

Fernanda Buril and Erica Shein

Blog / April 13, 2026

Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, exits a vehicle.

Five Questions on How Viktor Orbán Is Testing the EU’s Democratic Core

Lisa Anders and Sonja Priebus

Blog / February 27, 2026

Vladimir Putin casts his ballot in the presidential election in Russia, 2018.

The Authoritarian Rebranding of Democracy

Duong Thi Thuy Pham

Blog / February 19, 2026

Cameroon anglophone movement march

Cross-Border Repression in the Cameroon Anglophone Transnational Movement

Eliana Fonsah

Blog / February 09, 2026

A collage of book covers, including "Agamemnon's Daughter", "The Zone of Interest", and "Bend Sinister"

Novels on Authoritarian Rule III

Matthew Draper and Stephan Haggard

Blog / February 05, 2026

Two women walk on the sidewalk in front of the OECD conference building in Paris

Why a Populist Trump Administration Struck a Side Deal with the OECD

Margaret Kenney

Blog / January 28, 2026

An array of book covers, including "The Feast of the Goat" by Mario Vargas Llosa", "Confessions of a Fallen Standard -Bearer" by Andreï Makine, and "Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics" by Stephen Greenblatt

Novels on Authoritarian Rule II

Stephan Haggard

Blog / November 12, 2025

United Nations General Assembly hall in the UN Headquarters, New York City, February 2024

Two Ways Trump May Attack the UN

Bridget Coggins, Jungjae Hong, and Julia Morse

Blog / October 06, 2025

A demonstration organised by the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (KOD) in front of the Sejm in Warsaw

Poland Shows that Restoring Democracy Takes More than an Election

Christophe Hillion, Tommaso Pavone, and Antoinette Scherz

Blog / September 02, 2025

Book covers, "Alone in Berlin", "Prophet Song", and "Facundo"

To Understand Authoritarian Rule, Read These Five Novels

Stephan Haggard

Blog / August 20, 2025

Leaders photo at the Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, 2015.

Five Questions on How Dictators’ Clubs are Defending Autocracy

Maria Debre

Blog / August 08, 2025

UNESCO monument in Quebec City

Here We Go Again: The U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO

Christina Cottiero and Stephan Haggard

Blog / August 06, 2025

President of Russia Vladimir Putin with General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping at the military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Five Questions on the Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis

Blog / June 25, 2025

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, 2019.

Russia is Capitalizing on Economic Distress to Accrue Influence in Africa

William Decourt and Spenser Warren

Blog / June 13, 2025