Diplomacy & Crisis News

The country’s primary conservative party – the Liberal Party – is struggling to find resonance among the stability-minded Australian population.

There were hopes of a Modi-Trump meeting at Kuala Lumpur. That will not happen now.

The Cybercrime Convention will further entrench control and surveillance over peaceful expression of dissent online beyond the borders of repressive states. 

The summit and its associated meetings, which will be held during October 26-28, are shaping up as the most significant in years.

How Nigeria and South Africa can lead the continent to prosperity and stability.

A transnational threat requires a transnational response.

The two nations will reportedly establish a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership when Communist Party chief To Lam visits London next week.

The human trafficking and online scam industry will affect the future of South Korea’s relations with all of Southeast Asia.

Within hours of the disastrous flood in Hualien County, volunteers poured in from across Taiwan.

Central Asia's banking and crypto sectors have been increasingly targeted by the EU, U.K., and the United States for sanctions.

With only a two-and-a-half year prison sentence, the harsher punishment seems to be the closure of his entire platform aimed at religious discussions.

Not long ago, it would have been laughable to imagine Lee Jae-myung and Takaichi Sanae as leaders that would foster friendlier ties between these countries.

The TTP, BLA, and ISKP are three distinct types of militant groups, each exploiting Pakistan’s security vulnerabilities with distinct ideologies, objectives, and tactics.

An emerging group of illiberal democracies – including Trump’s America – is aligning with authoritarian states to systematically dismantle the post-war international order. 

The U.K. government faces accusations that it dropped an espionage case to safeguard diplomatic and trade relations with China.

Australia’s strategic footing remains shaped by decisions made elsewhere – like the upcoming Trump-Xi summit.

Taiwan is buying things, but is it actually acquiring the capabilities needed for deterrence?

Following the third wave of democratization, democracy and its proponents have recently experienced a shift towards autocratization. To date, however, little is known about the impact of this trend on democracy promotion. This article introduces a special issue that examines the complex relationship between autocratization and external democracy promotion. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding how the global trend of autocratization affects democracy promotion efforts. We identify two ways in which this is the case: first, autocratization requires democracy promoters to adapt to increasingly resistant environments in target countries where they seek to promote democracy or prevent autocratization; second, autocratization reduces the global leverage of democracy promoters due to the rise of autocratic competitors. We highlight the evolving strategies and responses of democracy promoters in the face of rising autocratic influence. We then provide an overview of the articles in this special issue, which examine the motives and strategies of traditional democracy promoters and their autocratic competitors and analyse how democracy promoters navigate the challenges of autocratization in target countries of democracy promotion and the strategic competition with autocratic regimes, using case studies from Southeastern Europe, the post-Soviet space, Africa and Latin America.

Indonesia’s mineral riches continue to clash with its green goals. A new law has been passed to regulate mining and protect the environment and local communities, but its enforcement remains weak.

Skilled labor is the missing link in China’s industrial transformation.