New data from CFR’s Women’s Power Index tracks countries on their progress toward gender parity in political representation.  

Rather than making democracy a litmus test, G7 and NATO leaders would gain more traction by focusing on the need for all countries to defend the fundamental rules of the international system grounded…

The coup in Guinea deposed Alpha Conde, who had been elected in less-than-credible elections.

As external actors seem to lessen pressure on West Africa’s juntas, Guineans register their discontent with military governance.

The applicability of the Truman Doctrine to the West's present confrontation with Russia is constrained by the realities of a different time, seventy-five years ago.

After President Roch Kabore of Burkina Faso was overthrown in a military coup, both the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) condemned what they have insisted is an “attempted coup” and reminded the Burkinabe military of its constitutional role of defending and upholding the constitution.