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Analyzing American-Orchestrated Regime Change Crisis in Pakistan
Pakistan has just successfully thwarted what Prime Minister Imran Khan claimed was an American-orchestrated regime change attempt against him after the country’s parliament rejected...
Was there a US-backed regime change in Pakistan?
A US-sponsored regime change is hardly new, and it does not take a student of history to cite examples of such transgressions. Guatemala, Congo,...
Pakistan: The Maturing of a Banana Democracy
The shameful and unprecedented political drama that has been witnessed in Pakistan in the last few days, do probably have no annals in the...
South Korean perceptions of misinformation
How does the South Korean public view misinformation and efforts to combat its spread? My survey work shows that, unlike in the United States...
Democracy with American characteristics and the Future of Pakistan
I think democracy is the essence of politics, but the international system is the tragedy of democracy, especially when it comes to the foreign...
The 2022 Presidential Elections in the Philippines
As the Philippines go down to vote for a new President on May 9, let’s have a look at how democracy functions in the...
Cooperating with autocrats: When is too much, too much?
Two recent publications have fuelled debate about democratic cooperation with autocratic governments in general, and Saudi Arabia in particular, in the wake of the...
Tackling the risks for democracy of digital political campaigning
The Council of Europe issued today a set of guidelines to its 46 member states to address the challenges to the fairness and legitimacy...
To hell with institutions? AMLO’s Recall Referendum
On 10th April the recall referendum is scheduled to take place, with the aim to revoke the mandate of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)...
Harmful habits
It's not a stretch to believe that since the earliest versions of democracy were introduced in Ancient Greece, there have undoubtedly been incidents of...