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Freedom and Prosperity Around the World

Dec 23, 2025

Serbia’s future depends on rebuilding rule of law and EU credibility

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Richard Grieveson</span>

After a full year of antigovernment protests, Belgrade faces a sustained challenge to the status quo. The corruption that drew protestors to the streets also stifle growth and imperil political freedom in the country. Restoring a credible path to EU accession would be the single most powerful external incentive for change.

Europe & Eurasia Freedom and Prosperity

MENASource

Dec 16, 2025

What will 2026 bring for the Middle East and North Africa?

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Atlantic Council experts</span>

As 2025 comes to a close, our senior analysts unpack the most prominent trends and topics they are tracking for the new year.

Climate Change & Climate Action Democratic Transitions

MENASource

Dec 8, 2025

States shouldn’t waste the chance to establish a Syria Victims Fund

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Kate Springs</span>, <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Celeste Kmiotek</span>

A centralized fund would better support victims of international law violations in Syria, who face unique challenges.

Democratic Transitions International Norms

Freedom and Prosperity Around the World

Dec 4, 2025

Delivering justice and jobs is the real test of Ghana’s storied democracy

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Joseph Asunka</span>

Vigilant media and active civil society sustain Ghana’s democracy, but weak judicial independence erodes public trust. Rising youth joblessness calls for reforms to strengthen industry, modernize agriculture, and align skills training to labor-market needs.

Africa Civil Society

Issue Brief

Dec 4, 2025

A stronger, safer, and more prosperous hemisphere: The case for investing in democracy in the Americas

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Antonio Garrastazu and Henrique Arevalo Poincot</span>

This issue brief is the fourth in the Freedom and Prosperity Center's "Future of democracy assistance" series, which analyzes the many complex challenges to democracy around the world—and highlights actionable policies that promote democratic governance.

Civil Society Democratic Transitions

New Atlanticist

Dec 3, 2025

Is Costa Rica in a political crisis?  

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">María Fernanda Bozmoski</span>

The country finds itself in an exceptional—yet constitutionally permitted—confrontation between its executive branch and its independent electoral authority.

Central America Elections

UkraineAlert

Dec 2, 2025

Ukraine peace plan must not include amnesty for Russian war crimes

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Ivan Horodyskyy</span>

US President Donald Trump's 28-point peace plan for Ukraine includes an amnesty for war crimes that critics say will only strengthen Putin's sense of impunity and set the stage for more Russian aggression, writes Ivan Horodyskyy.

Conflict European Union
A destroyed military vehicle and bombed buildings in Khartoum.

AfricaSource

Nov 25, 2025

El Fasher is only the latest wake-up call to the genocide unfolding in Sudan

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Rama Yade</span>

Sudan’s civil war has become one of the world’s deadliest crises—and the massacre in El Fasher exposes a genocide unfolding in plain sight. As regional powers fuel the war, millions face famine, displacement, and systematic violence.

Conflict Crisis Management

New Atlanticist

Nov 17, 2025

Experts react: Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in absentia. What does this mean for Bangladesh’s future?

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Atlantic Council experts</span>

A tribunal in Dhaka has sentenced the former Bangladeshi prime minister for her role in the government’s deadly crackdown in July 2024.

Bangladesh Democratic Transitions

UkraineAlert

Nov 17, 2025

Zelenskyy faces the biggest corruption scandal of his presidency

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Suriya Evans-Pritchard Jayanti</span>

Amid Russia’s ongoing invasion, Ukraine in now facing the largest corruption scandal of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidency over alleged kickbacks in the graft-prone energy sector, writes Suriya Evans-Pritchard Jayanti.

Civil Society Conflict

Experts