A recent brutal crackdown against LGBT people in Chechnya has cast a new spotlight on the small Russian republic's authoritarian regime. In this episo...

The current U.S. administration’s foreign policy will likely expand the U.S. government’s effort to detect and deter violent extremists, and will buil...

Election monitoring is often viewed as a fundamental component of democracy assistance. But autocrats are increasingly learning how to manipulate elec...

Latin America has the unfortunate distinction of being the most violent region in the world, accounting for nine percent of the world’s population but...

Following the unexpected success of Brexit and the Trump campaign, public opinion research is facing unprecedented scrutiny. In the second episode of ...

In the inaugural episode of Opening Spaces, we sit down with Eric Bjornlund, President of Democracy International, for a conversation on the history a...