Brazil’s democratic institutions demonstrated remarkable resilience in the face of Sunday’s assault on government buildings in the capital, Brasilia, said a U.S. government spokesperson. “We have seen remarkable resilience from… Read more »
Taiwan’s democracy is a model for the world amid the global rise of authoritarianism, said Kenneth Wollack, chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The nation demonstrated that… Read more »
Pandemic geopolitics are intensifying investments in pro-democracy civic capacities and democracies’ societal resilience, according to a new report from the Carnegie Endowment. Developments are beginning to condition many states’ domestic… Read more »
How can the West combat disinformation without curbing its own free speech? This was one of the questions raised in this week’s CEPA forum on Resilience in the Face of Authoritarianism…. Read more »
Older democracies are better equipped to cope with crises like the current Covid-19 pandemic, while the risk of institutional breakdown is greater in new democracies with weak civil society and weak… Read more »
Social media and the Internet pose an acute threat to democracy, but probably not in the way that most people assume, says a leading expert. Many people believe that the… Read more »
In a world increasingly interconnected by technology, democratic governments are grappling with how to defend against and counter information operations targeting their societies, note Bradley Hanlon and Laura Rosenberger, Research Assistant… Read more »
Political polarization is “tearing at the seams of democracy” around the world, according to Thomas Carothers, Carnegie senior vice president for studies. What can be done to overcome polarization and… Read more »
The main error of liberal internationalism is that its advocates have mistaken an aspiration for reality, and by so doing have gotten a basic chunk of causality exactly backwards, argues… Read more »
Resilient democratic institutions, such as an independent judiciary and a functioning system of checks and balances within political systems, are critical for the successful control of public-sector corruption, writes Patricia… Read more »