A turn toward Pakistan and away from India, as well as a race for the exits from Afghanistan, would be unwise.

Over the past decade, illiberal populist leaders from across the political spectrum have won elections and taken power in many of the world’s biggest democracies, from the United States to India, the…

The pandemic is where simple narratives go to die. Most of the predictions that people made a year ago have turned out to be false. Democracies did not systematically do better than dictatorships…

This article was first published in the Japan Times.  Over the past 15 years, democracy across Asia has regressed. Although the region still has strong democracies like South Korea, Japan and Taiw…

Trump has embraced yet another strongman, this time in Libya. But it’s not just a personal failing—it’s a national tradition.