On September 24, German voters delivered an ambivalent victory to Angela Merkel, returning her to power as Chancellor of Germany but with a much smaller margin for her Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Along with its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union...

With the 19th Party Congress coming next month and the 4th Chinese-convened World Internet Congress (WIC) soon to follow, China’s digital policy authorities this month held a publicity-filled Cybersecurity Week, and the Party’s leading journal on theory, Qiushi,...

The growing and worrying phenomenon of shrinking civic space in Africa hampers citizens from freely exercising their fundamental human rights. According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law’s 

On July 20, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the takedown of the two largest dark web markets, AlphaBay and Hansa Market. News of the take-down...

On May 3, 2017, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) co-hosted a half day meeting exploring how the Trump and Abe Administrations can...

A non-governmental organization (NGO) that is critical of the government’s actions in the country at hand receives a letter from the local tax office, indicating that its public-benefit status has been revoked on the grounds of its involvement in political...

Yellow fever—a mosquito-borne virus that can cause fever, chills, muscle aches, headaches, and (in serious cases) bleeding, organ failure, and death—has long been endemic to Brazil. First brought to the Americas from Africa in the 1600s during the slave trade,...

In late May, a small team from the CSIS Global Health Policy Center traveled to Brazil to research Brazilian approaches to protecting health in emergency situations. With the 5th greatest landmass, the 5th largest population, and the 9th largest economy in the world,...

The presidential election appears to have been just the beginning.  Yesterday’s French legislative elections was the coup de grace.  France’s two traditional parties – the Socialist Party and Les...