“Liberal democracy has responded to the populist mobilization with a democratic counter-mobilization – also and especially in the political center,” says @BertelsmannSt https://t.co/AwjM9BJ91r — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 3, 2020… Read more »
Russia’s prime minister will visit Belarus today, Reuters reports (HT:CFR) and Belarus’s defense minister will be in Moscow tomorrow as the two countries step up diplomacy in the face of continued… Read more »
‘A Dictatorship Is Being Created’: An Interview with Lech Wałęsa https://t.co/U6rrtpxhQL via @nybooks — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 3, 2020 The current democratic crisis demonstrates that “we are between… Read more »
A High-Stakes Standoff in Belarus https://t.co/MJZpJ8bbQg — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 2, 2020 A senior U.S. official said the United States and European Union were closely coordinating to find… Read more »
Even unconscious, Alexei Navalny has managed to needle the Kremlin and its allies. His organization, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, released a video on Monday that featured footage of Mr. Navalny denouncing… Read more »
The covid-19 pandemic “is a wake-up call…not just as a public-health disaster, but a stress test of Western government,” John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge contend in The Wake-Up Call:… Read more »
Washington’s best response to Xi Jinping’s increasingly nationalistic and authoritarian China is to adopt an asymmetric approach — revitalizing the relationships that have long anchored U.S. diplomacy while reaffirming… Read more »
In 1911, Robert Michels (1876-1936), an Italian political sociologist, published “Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy,” postulating the “iron law of oligarchy.” Michels, who… Read more »
From Norway to North Korea, governing systems differ around the world. But has the world become more or less free in the past decade? Iman Ghosh writes for Visual… Read more »
“The #CCP‘s coercive diplomacy” – essential reading from @ASPI_org‘s International Cyber Policy Centre https://t.co/LzjmQWNwXV — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 1, 2020 Coercive diplomacy is an important tool of Chinese… Read more »