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50 Years Later: South America’s Operation Condor and Contemporary Transnational Repression
Francesca Lessa— Transnational repression constitutes a “global threat to national sovereignty, security, and human rights,” according to a 2025 report from Freedom House. The term transnational repression describes the tactics that governments employ to persecute political opponents who are living in exile. States have adopted various strategies in this regard; they range from propaganda campaigns, surveillance, the infiltration of agents…Read More
Demosthenes: A Conversation with James Romm
In Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender, James Romm tells the tragic story of ancient Greece’s last democratic leader. In this Q&A, we talk with the author about his writing process and what today’s world leaders can learn from Demosthenes’ successes and failures. How do you, as a historian, ensure that you objectively cover all aspects of a historical figure, equally portraying both…Read More