'These findings fly in the face of Biden's preferred framing of international politics as a 'battle between democracies and autocracies,'' says stephensemler.
of commercial arms sales during the fiscal year makes prodigious use of 'various' in its recipients category; as a result, the specific recipients for nearly $11 billion in weapons sales are not disclosed."
"The Regimes of the World system is just one of the several indices that measure democracy worldwide, but running the same analysis with other popular indices produces similar results," Semler observed."For example, Freedom House listed 195 countries and for each one labeled whether it qualified as an electoral democracy in its annualreport.
Despite the White House's lofty rhetoric, it is actively bolstering the military power of a majority of the world's authoritarian countries, fromto dozens of others, including some overlooked by researchers at the University of Gothenburg. For instance, the Varieties of Democracy project characterizes Israel as a"liberal democracy" even though human rights groups around the world have
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