A majority of Europeans in the 16-29 age group believe authoritarian states have a better shot at addressing the climate crisis than democracies, according to a recent Oxford-backed survey. The… Read more »
“Transnational repression” is a term used to describe how countries silence their exiles and diasporas abroad. It encompasses a spectrum of tactics, from assassinations, to renditions, to spyware, to intimidation… Read more »
In a recent Atlantic Council/German Marshall Fund virtual meeting, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressing the importance of making NATO a more global alliance to defend democratic values in a… Read more »
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the political business model of populists is not “giving the people what they want”. Rather, it is an exclusionary form of identity politics, where incessant talk… Read more »
Liberals are supposed to believe that the freedom to dissent is an essential part of a functioning democracy. More points of view lead to a better grasp of complex… Read more »
Democracy and Decency by Chris Patten @ProSyn https://t.co/2znlCO1ner — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 20, 2020 Whatever their Western apologists may claim, Russia and China are clearly trying to… Read more »
The Covid-19 pandemic is having distinctive political effects across different types of regime, according to a new analysis. Policy responses need to be tailored to contrasting outcomes and risks in… Read more »
In the short term, the new coronavirus (and the resulting economic and social wreckage) will accelerate the fragmentation and breakdown of global order, hastening the descent into nationalism, great-power… Read more »
For all the concern over authoritarianism’s advance, the competence of governance may be what determines the next chapter in the struggle between democracy and dictatorship, according to William J. Dobson,… Read more »
TODAY: Iran’s judiciary spokesman announced that November protesters Mohammad Rajabi, Saeed Tamjidi and Amirhossein Moradi are officially on death row. Iranians on social media are fighting back. We hear them… Read more »