The coalescing partnership of autocracies led by China and Russia will impose strategic choices on Western democracies, no ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The increasing interconnectedness of a broad range of authoritarian states has ...

Autocracies “keep track of one another’s defeats and victories, timing their own moves to create maximum chaos,” explains Applebaum. In the fall of 2023, Applebaum writes, amid the bolstered ...

Coming up, an axis of autocracies led by Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea is challenging the Democratic world order. That's after the break. Russia's war in Ukraine, the Middle East ablaze in ...

Widespread engagement is especially needed, and especially powerful, at a time when democracies like ours face threats from autocracies abroad and intense social and political strain at home.

In the past decade, militaries around the world have become involved in domestic politics and public policy formulation at levels not seen since the Cold War. At the same time, authoritarian ...

I have written before about the evolving “axis of autocracies.” One doesn’t have to be a foreign affairs expert to see the ...

The West, Lavrov said, clings to America’s decaying hegemony but is inexorably losing ground to the “free world”—his Orwellian term for the axis of autocracies led by Russia, China ...

The expert argues that more and more democratic systems are turning into autocracies, whereas in the second half of the 20th ...