China’s rise and democratic backsliding in other countries are making a mockery of Europe’s efforts to spread its values through trade.

Democracy in Asia faces challenges, even where it is relatively liberal and strong, amid a global democratic recession ...

When Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Moscow to co-ordinate Tehran’s response to the massive US strikes on nuclear facilities, he met not with his opposite number Sergey Lavrov, but ...

In hindsight, the U.S. interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq validated the autocracies they overthrew. Even as the leaders of these countries imposed heinous repression, the rogue states they ...

Donald Trump’s gamble in Iran is bad news for the ‘axis of autocracies’ United by little more than a hatred of the US-led world order, Russia, China and North Korea are in no doubt that the ...

It is probably fair to assume that the Kremlin is currently in something of a holding pattern, while it watches how things develop between the US and Iran. A Western security official told me this ...

Much has been made of the new Axis of Autocracies: Iran, Russia, China and North Korea. Diplomats and intelligence officials have repeatedly described this as a marriage of convenience, rather ...

Much has been made of the new Axis of Autocracies: Iran, Russia, China and North Korea. Diplomats and intelligence officials have repeatedly described this as a marriage of convenience, rather ...

COMMENT: United by little more than a hatred of the US-led world order, Russia, China and North Korea are in no doubt that the attacks on Iran’s nuclear programme pose a threat to their marriage ...

The dramatic escalation and direct involvement of America in Iran, coupled with the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel, and Trump talking openly of regime change, puts the Russian leader in a ...