Publications
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The Many Wars of Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim
This Policy Brief examines the rise to power of Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim – a story of political perseverance and hope with few parallels – and how he has fared in handling the Southeast Asian country’s many challenges in his first year in office. A rare intellectual-politician, his career has careened from street protests to the…
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Follow the Money: The Economics of Media Capture in Backsliding Democracies
This Policy Brief examines the relationship between the Indian government and India’s mainstream national-level media. When we think of the global epidemic of media capture, we usually think of intimidation and coercion by neo-authoritarians to gain control over the narrative. India shows how media can also be co-opted through financial inducements, and…
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Reinvigorating Peace: A Critical Look at the UN’s New Agenda for Peace
This Policy Brief analyses how the global landscape has shifted from post-Cold War optimism to current fragmentation, requiring changes in the approach of the United Nations to sustaining peace. It examines the priorities and limitations of…
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Great Power Competition, Stillborn Democracies and the Rise of Neo-Authoritarians: The Case of India
This Policy Brief considers the case of India, which is instructive in understanding how a state-oriented world organisation can fuel geopolitical competition, impede the goal of achieving substantive democracy, and facilitate the rise of neo-authoritarians. Over the course of the last century…
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Why Parliaments?
This Policy Brief charts the history of the parliament of representatives, born more than eight centuries ago in northern Spain. This new instrument of government was among the most precious gifts to the world of modern…
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