April 2024

Yellow river watershed; Jingdezhen. Mostern, Plate 1

Early Modern History: Porcelain and the Yellow River in China

April 30, 2024May 6, 2024
Contending Voices: Problems in World History, Culture and Knowledge, Environment

Early Modern History, a subfield of World History, explores the centuries before 1800 CE. The Journal of Early Modern History, since 1997, has shown the… Read More »Early Modern History: Porcelain and the Yellow River in China

Polling station in the UK, photo by Steve Houghton Burnett/Unsplash

Why Is Democracy on the Decline? A Look at Global Trends from V-Dem

April 14, 2024April 16, 2024
Contending Voices: Problems in World History, Institutions and Sectors, Methods

The 2024 V-Dem report on global democracy seeks to explain the rise in autocracy around the world. I explore this report through comparisons of global politics at different levels—and consider what effect international organizations may have on democracy.