Bangladesh’s unfree election is part of a larger trend of democratic regression in South and Southeast Asia.

After six months in office, Hun Manet has demonstrated an understanding of Cambodia’s economic challenges but has continued the political repression of his father’s rule.

Some analysts have suggested new Prime Minister Hun Manet will be more reform-minded than his father, but this prediction is premature.

By 2020, with the state of democracy already in dire shape, it seemed that things couldn’t get worse. And yet, in the past few years, they have.

Cambodia's recent election exposes its looming succession crisis.

Cambodia will hold a national election on July 23, but long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen has eroded his political opposition and a once-vibrant media and civil society.