Some terms – such as “virtue signalling” – are irritating and illuminating in equal measure. The insult “grant eater”, which ...

In September, the International Criminal Court will conduct a confirmation of charges hearing against warlord Joseph Kony.

No one becomes an anti-corruption activist to make money, least of all in Ukraine. When I first met the co-founders of the ...

When I think back to my time growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s in a small authoritarian Eastern European state bordering Greece, Turkey, Romania and the Black Sea, one scene always springs to mind: ...

Regular readers will know I dislike Transparency International’s flagship Corruption Perceptions Index, but my only objection to TI’s interesting new Opacity in Real Estate Ownership index is the ...

From Greenland to Gaza, from the Panama Canal to Mars, Donald Trump’s territorial ambitions span the globe. Once described as an isolationist, Trump’s rhetoric increasingly resembles that of a ...

It was 2014, and I was standing in the ruins of Donetsk airport, when a Russian-backed rebel commander launched into what seemed like an oddly academic lecture. Between bursts of artillery fire, he ...

Among Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders, all signed in the first week of his new term, perhaps the one with the most far-reaching impact was also one of the least talked about and scrutinized.

A shadowy nexus of pro-Trump nonprofits are securing lucrative security contracts to spew disinformation about border “invasion” ...

Former Soviet Republics have a lot in common with countries that have struggled against Western colonialism. So why don't we tend to see Russia as a colonizer?

HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE: Lessons from Georgia Georgia has become a front line in the battle against rising authoritarianism. With thousands protesting against the new “foreign agent” law, the country’s ...