Andrew Stroehlein

One of the great advantages of social media is the way it has democratised communication. Not that everyone has an equal voice, but at least...

I've recently written two articles on authoritarianism for Persuasion .  One was an examination of some overlooked autocrats around the ...

Former cathedral on former Kneiphof island in former Königsberg  Everywhere you go in Central Europe , you’re travelling to a place tha...

I wrote this piece with Steve Swerdlow for Los Angeles Review of Books . ======= Yesterday, it rained forever; today, the mud is deep and...

You, my dear and learned friends, are no doubt already very well aquatinted with the "Butterfly Effect", the notion that the gentl...

The European Union’s 60th anniversary this month comes at a time when some political leaders are attracting significant popular support for ...

This originally appeared in POLITICO Europe . ======= DAKAR, Senegal — They’re working on the hotel pool, which only reminds me of the mas...

I wrote this with my Human Rights Watch colleague Steve Swerdlow for openDemocracy . ======= A year ago, the daughter of Uzbekistan’s author...

I wrote this with my Human Rights Watch colleague Steve Swerdlow for EurasiaNet . ======= When it comes to authoritarian Uzbekistan’s dis...

As details emerge of yesterday’s bombings in the Nigerian city of Jos, it seems the horrific death toll – now 118 and counting, as rescue te...

There’s nothing to see at first: a widening of the median between two busy lanes of Abuja traffic. A few people sit under scattered trees fi...

I wrote this piece with my HRW colleague Steve Swerdlow for Foreign Policy , which published it on 14 November 2013. ======= After 25 y...

This article on police corruption in the street markets of Monrovia, Liberia, originally appeared in The Independent (UK) under the title ...

My Human Rights Watch colleague, Rachel Denber, and I wrote this for The Wall Street Journal , where it appeared on 2 July 2013. ======= ...

I wrote this with Steve Swerdlow, Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, and CNN published it on 25 January 2013. ======= Recen...