VATICAN CITY — A number of synod fathers have said Pope Francis’ call on Saturday for a more decentralized Church, in which bishops’ conferences could have greater decision-making powers, most ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past decade and a half, Indonesia’s democratic transition has been ...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (PIA) — Strengthening local governance in the Philippines, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-10 organized the Regional Decentralization Conference on ...
Last week, the world’s most globe-spanning empire until the mid-20th century let its fate be decided by 3.6 million voters in Scotland. While Great Britain narrowly salvaged its nominal unity, the ...
Over the past decade and a half, Indonesia’s democratic transition has been praised (including by me) as one of the most impressive of any developing country in the world. The distance traveled from ...