Democratic Regression in Southeast Asia and the Islamic State (Joshua Kurlantzick, CFR)

Southeast Asia’s decade of democratic regression, which I examined in the previous blog post, reflects a worrying global retrenchment. Freedom House’s annual Freedom in the World report, which measures the spread or retrenchment of freedom globally, has reported ten straight years of declining global political freedom. In Freedom House’s 2016 edition of Freedom in the World, more than seventy countries registered declines in political freedom as compared to the prior year.

http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2016/02/17/democratic-regression-in-southeast-asia-and-the-islamic-state/