by Cassandra Fitts | Feb 12, 2025 | Boston University
Former Soviet satellite states that were once poster children for democratization following the decline of European communism have been making drastic pivots towards autocracy in recent years. In 1989 following the fall of the USSR, previously Soviet-occupied Hungary,...
by Cayden Bobley O'Connor | Nov 10, 2022 | Skidmore College
The polls have closed; the votes have been tallied; the election is over — Giorgia Meloni, head of the far-right Brothers of Italy Party is the country’s next prime minister. Meloni, who is the first woman to serve in the office, is a tremendously controversial...
by Lina Klak | Mar 4, 2022 | University of Chicago
Now that Vladimir Putin has launched a full-scale invasion against Ukraine, it is difficult to argue with the reality that Russia should now be considered a fully autocratic regime. Putin has shown that he is okay with disregarding long-standing international norms by...
by Lina Klak | Feb 5, 2022 | University of Chicago
In Ukraine’s 2019 presidential election, comedian Volodymyr Zelensky won 73% of the run-off vote, unseating incumbent Petro Poroshenko. Watching from the United States— this was a tale that was unnervingly all-too familiar. Before becoming the President of Ukraine,...
by Helen Taura | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago
In Ozan Varol’s Stealth Authoritarianism, one of the main conditions of authoritarianism is “rampant” corruption as well as “abuse of state resources” [1]. Regime change is deemed possible through “a pacted transition, revolution, coup, or foreign intervention” [2]....
