Analysis

In 2013, a plan to demolish Gezi park in central Istanbul triggered nationwide protests across 79 provinces. Police repression reframed...
Despite decades of internal resistance, Cuba’s regime endures. Repression, silencing and mass emigration form an iron triangle that drains dissent...
From Sidi Bouzid to Tunis, Tunisia’s 2011 uprising didn’t just challenge the regime of Ben Ali, it did so while...
From campuses to city squares, a new political language is emerging. Across 2024–2025, Gen-Z has taken the streets and rewritten...
Guatemala’s unfinished transition has been locked in by post-2016 state capture, with the judiciary used to neutralise anti-corruption efforts. CICIG...
In 2024, presidential elections in Chad, Venezuela and Mozambique were engineered to extend authoritarian rule through captured institutions, fraud and...
The 2018 Armenian “Velvet Revolution” was a mass nonviolent mobilisation that united students, civic groups, and ordinary citizens against entrenched...
The 2019 protests marked a turning point in Hong Kong’s history. Although the movement succeeded in securing the withdrawal of...
To weaken authoritarianism in Nicaragua, denunciation is not enough: strategic and multisectoral action is needed. Every factor that fuels authoritarianism...