In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National Interest, ...

The global chorus of Western democracy promoters assumes that liberal democracy is the universal standard for freedom and progress. But can liberal democracy truly withstand the challenge posed by ...

In East and Southeast Asia, democracy must be understood within the region’s unique political, historical and economic contexts. While liberal values are present, many citizens prioritise stability, ...

South America has entered a period in which liberal democracy is becoming more visible, with geopolitical tensions escalating ...

Ben Ansell is a professor of comparative democratic institutions at the University of Oxford's Nuffield College. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the host of the What's Wrong with Democracy?

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. Few communities in America prospered as much as Texarkana during President Joe Biden’s four ...

My recent column made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that the reelection of Donald Trump proved that we have definitively exited the post-Cold War era; that the phase of history that began in ...

Dr. Selk is a political scientist at the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In this year of elections, when a full quarter of humanity ...