Just a few months short of the presidential election in Brazil, one would find few political analysts, if any, willing to go on the record with a prediction for the…
Autocrats are making a comeback. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent reelection, and the preceding repression of journalists and dissenters, is a prime example of this resurgence and sheds…
The most recent study on reported incidents of gender-based violence (GBV) in Pakistan shows an upward trend of violent crime against women – with kidnapping, rape, murder, honor killings, domestic…
Certain characteristics and values have the power to make or break a democracy. The supremacy of law, for instance, is the foundation on which democracy is built; it is the…
On 1 October 2017, Catalonia held a referendum on independence from Spain. Catalonia, in the northeastern corner of Spain, has a population of seven and a half million. With Barcelona…
Iraq is on the brink of civil war. Iraqi Kurdistan’s contentious independence referendum and Baghdad’s heavy-handed response have set the stage for a military clash between the Iraqi military and…
Venezuelan elections, characterized by unequal media access, unfair use of public financing and pressure on public employees to support government-backed candidates, have long disadvantaged the opposition. However, in light of…
At an event hosted by Georgetown University’s International Relations Club, Five Minutes with an Expert sat down with Cypriot Ambassador to the United States Leonidas Pantelides to discuss his education,…
The victories of the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party in Poland in both the presidential elections of May 2015 and the parliamentary elections of October 2015 have been controversially…
For the past several months, the 2013 elections in Pakistan have been lauded as historic progress for democracy and a potential turning point for Pakistan, as they mark the first…
