‘Global Order in the Shadow of the Coronavirus’: How liberalism can survive
A new call for UK to do more to stand up for democracy around around the world. More should be done by all democracies in solidarity with those fighting… Read more »
Category: Democratic institutions
Ukraine at (yet another) crossroads?
Fighting False News in Ukraine, Facebook Fact Checkers Tread a Blurry Line https://t.co/ICn1v0TtdK — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 27, 2020 To understand the complexity of policing online disinformation, consider the… Read more »
Democracy vs. Democracy: The Populist Challenge
At a time when the world’s democracies are on a back foot against a pandemic and creeping authoritarianism, a new study finds hope in Latin America. The reason is a… Read more »
Authoritarian competence a threat to democracy’s credibility?
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 »
Placing democratic values at the heart of international strategy
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 »
Addressing liberal democracy’s inherent vulnerabilities
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 »
A pro-democracy foreign policy: Retrenchment, restoration or reinvention?
We live in a new reality: America can no longer dictate events as we sometimes believed we could, especially given the damage to its values, image, and influence, argues… Read more »
Autocrats’ attacks a tribute to independent media’s power
The ultimate, most severe threats to a free press come from governments, which, to justify their actions, have seized opportunistically on causes ranging from requiring platforms to moderate posts to… Read more »
Facing the twilight of democracy?
https://t.co/80Lyei6mCF — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 13, 2020 There is no detailed road map to a better society, no didactic ideology and no rulebook. What liberal democracies demand is… Read more »
Polish opposition offers lessons for anti-populists
Lessons from the Polish Opposition by Jacek Rostowski @ProSyn https://t.co/gqWHgarDUK — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 13, 2020 Although Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski did not come out on top… Read more »