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1. Freedom under attack in India

   Appeared in the Policy Times, January 30, 2020 To quell a nationwide backlash against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) that India’s parliament passed last month, Indian authorities denied people the right to protest and raise their voices. In doing ...

2. Baltic states continue march towards markets despite rocky road

   After revolutions swept across Eastern Europe three decades ago, communism was counting its final days in more than two dozen countries on the verge of leaving socialism behind and welcoming a market economy. The former socialist ...

3. ‘Mini Schengen’—moving toward freedom and markets

   French President Emmanuel Macron’s spearheading opposition to block European Union accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia during the European Council’s recent fall meeting is not only dangerously and severely undermining the ...

4. Still moving toward markets 30 years after the Berlin Wall

   Last weekend marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, which was not only the start of German reunification, but one of several events that in the months and years to come would see more than 100 ...

5. Hong Kong—withstanding the attack

   Appeared in the New Delhi Times, October 7, 2019 Hong Kong remains in turmoil amid its most contentious political crisis since Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule more than two decades ago. Recently, the government used colonial-era emergency legislation ...

6. Hong Kong fights for rule of law—and more

   Appeared in the Svensk Tidskrift, September 13, 2019 Last week, Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam announced that her government will withdraw the bill that would undermine the rule of law by allowing extraditions to mainland China, which sparked three ...

7. The Human Freedom Index 2016

   The index published here presents a broad measure of human freedom, understood as the absence of coercive constraint. It uses 79 distinct indicators of personal and economic freedom in the following areas: Rule of Law Security and Safety Movement Religion ...

8. The Human Freedom Index 2015

   The Human Freedom Index presents a broad measure of human freedom around the world through the use of 76 indicators of personal, civil and economic freedoms to rank 152 countries around the world. It is the most comprehensive freedom index so far created ...

9. Towards A Worldwide Index of Human Freedom

   The quest People have been seeking freedom for millennia but not freedom for all. Slaves, serfs, women, outsiders, and the defeated were not included. That changed in the last few centuries as the circle of those deserving freedom expanded. Evolution ...