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Analyses

For decades, Latin America’s authoritarian regimes were seen as a right-wing phenomenon, with Cuba as the lone exception — a dictatorship born not from a betrayal of democracy, but of revolution. As Washington’s embargo returns to the headlines, this piece asks what that framing has long obscured: that Cuba has never had just one embargo, but two.

Society
India’s Digital Revolution at the Mercy of Authoritarianism
Maria Tavernini 16 June 2023

Ever since demonetization, which enabled a rise in digital payments and debit cards, India has been rapidly moving toward a digital-first economy. Over the past decade, the country has set up a wide range of digital platforms whose number and scope have recently grown to include every aspect of life.
Society
Israeli Rallies for Democracy Reach 23rd Week
Manuela Dviri 12 June 2023

Israeli rallies began in November, after Netanyahu’s victory and the formation of a new government through a coalition of six right-wing parties. At a press conference held on January 4, Minister of Justice Yariv Levin announced the government’s plan to reform the judicial branch that would empower the executive branch to override it.
International Affairs
In Lebanon There is no Alternative to the Rule of Law
Nicole Hamouche 9 June 2023

The enormity of Beirut’s port blast and of the extortion of the Lebanese population of their deposits and life savings account for the default of the rule of law in this former enclave of liberty and democracy in the Middle East. Insidiously, Lebanon is becoming a police state, where freedom of expression and basic human rights such as access to education and health are being denied.
International Affairs
Rached Ghannouchi’s Arrest: the End of the Tunisian Exception
Alessandra Tommasi 1 June 2023

Twelve years after the Arab Springs, the curtain is closing on what has been the only Arab democracy: the so-called Tunisian exception. On May 15, Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi was sentenced to one year of prison as part of a crackdown on dissent that has become more acute since early 2023, but started at least one year ago according to Andrew March.
International Affairs
China Plays Go while NATO Plays Chess
Seán Golden 29 May 2023

Chess pursues the elimination of pieces; Go the encirclement of territory. Against US containment policy, China is expanding where there is space to expand.
A Lesson of Pluralism from Empires Against Putin’s Nationalism
Giancarlo Bosetti 18 May 2023

Empires are generally pluralistic, multicultural, while the nation-states that follow generally desire uniformity, and are often more intolerant and tend to suppress or even dismiss differences. This is Pieter Judson’s thesis, analysed in our article.
International Affairs
Poland Heading to the Polls: from the Wheat Crisis
to the Rise of the Far Right
Fabio Turco 8 May 2023

In six months’ time Polish electors who head to the polls will be faced with a big decision: whether to confirm for the third time the mandate of the Conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) or attempt to bring about a change by putting their trust in the liberal and progressive forces that make up the heterogenous field of the Opposition.
Human Rights, International Affairs
Identity and Violence: Abiy Ahmed’s Amhara genocide denial
Aster Carpanelli , Nicoletta Fagiolo 3 May 2023

Ethiopia under the Prosperity Party is a de facto one-party dictatorship and its regime seems to be reinforcing the ethnicity-based apartheid federalism
International Affairs
How Many Ambiguities in the Convenient Marriage
of European Right-wingers and Netanyahu
Claudia De Martino 23 April 2023
Human Rights
DRCongo’s Necro-Mining, the Flip Side of the Digital
and Green Revolution
Nicoletta Fagiolo 17 April 2023

Minerals for the growing global market for electronic devices are mined in the DRC, revealing an economic structure based on a resource-death equation