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 ...

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 ...

According to V-Dem, the world now has fewer democracies than autocracies for the first time in over 20 years. Approximately 72% of the world population now lives in autocratic states, the highest ...

There were more autocracies than democracies around the world last year, an analysis shows. The number of people living in “autocratizing” countries comprises 40% of the world’s population ...

How the start of Trump’s second term looks like some autocracies Feb 17, 2025 6:45 PM EDT By — Amna Nawaz By — Mary Fecteau By — Sarah Clune Hartman ...

Has World War III Already Begun? An axis of autocracies led by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is challenging the democratic world order Carl Godfrey By Yaroslav Trofimov Dec. 13, 2024 9:00 pm ET ...

As the network of aligned autocracies continues to grow, examining how these regimes operate, support one another, and pose strategic, economic, and migratory threats to the world is increasingly ...