US set to finalize massive security aid package for Ukraine, including Stryker combat vehicles
US is set to finalize a huge military aid package for Ukraine totaling approximately $2.5 billion worth of weaponry, including for the first time...
Civil Society Actors in Indonesia: The Emergence of a Militant Counterculture
While comprehensive information and analysis on Indonesia’s NGO sector are hard to come by, it is currently estimated that there are an estimated 2,293...
Kazakhstan President dissolves parliament, calls for snap election on March 19
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Thursday (January 19) dissolved the country’s Parliament and called for a snap election on March 19. President Tokayev, 69,...
Europe awakens to the threat of sabotage by Russian agents
Suspicion has fallen on Russia over a series of confirmed or apparent acts of sabotage and espionage that took place late last year in...
Greece considers legal options to prevent neo-Nazi party from running in elections
The Greek government is working to find legal ways to prevent Ellines, the neo-Nazi party led by a former leader of the notorious Golden...
‘The time of the Wild West is over,’ EU’s Věra Jourová warns Elon Musk’s Twitter from Davos
“The time of the Wild West is over,” the European Commission’s Vice-President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová warned Elon Musk amid the continuing...
North Korea again tops World Watch List of persecutors
WASHINGTON (RNS) — In the three decades since the religious liberty organization Open Doors has been compiling its World Watch List of the 50...
Cyber Security for Civil Society in Indonesia
Cyber security refers to the security of digital information stored on electronic networks, as well as the security of the networks that store and...
Why Asia’s Arms Race Risks Spinning Out of Control
Seoul, South Korea — It’s an arms race bigger than anything Asia has ever seen – three majornuclear powers and one fast-developing one, the...
The Cloak of Democracy in Indonesia and Bolivia: The Pitfalls of Foreign Development Models
The idea and practice of democracy have long and complicated histories. There are large and diverse bodies of literature on each aspect of the...