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China is shakily “authoritarian” while India is a stable democracy—indeed, the world’s largest. So goes the cliché, and it is true, up to a point. However, have we noticed the growing resemblance…

Xi Jinping is establishing a system of checks without balances. Although this intention defies the political science equivalent of the law of gravity, his first two years in power appear to be a…

An interview with Andrei Piontkovsky by Filip Memches To retain power, the Russian president needs the loyalty of the elites. However, this loyalty is not certain today—says Andrei Piontkovsky in an…

Over the past year, traditional defences against antiliberal populism have been considerably weakened: the case of independent media.

Russian influence in the affairs of the radical fringes is a phenomenon seen all over Europe as a key risk to European stability, security and Euro-Atlantic integration. These forces not only oppose…

To break this vicious circle, which threatens both the European project and domestic democracy, Europe needs growth and jobs.

An interview with Ivan Krastev by Maciej Nowicki The project of Orbán and Putin contains a fundamental contradiction, which cannot be overcome. Therefore, their utopia will never become more than a…

Putin and Orbán want to be strong leaders of what are essentially weak countries. Their goal is not an ideological world revolution, but a game of outsmarting the West.