Democracy and its advocates are undergoing an existential crisis as authoritarian resurgence externally and illiberal challenges at home seek to undermine the values and institutions underpinning the liberal international order,… Read more »
Digital capabilities are ideologically neutral and can serve authoritarian as well as democratic tendencies, so development donors must be wary of whom they partner with and how they deliver assistance… Read more »
Canada will make support for democracy and human rights a foreign policy priority, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Support for democracy and human rights should be “a core priority in Canada’s… Read more »
President Joe Biden today acknowledged the United States’ democratic vulnerabilities as he introduced the virtual Summit for Democracy in which government leaders, civil society and the private sector will “set… Read more »
In some ways, President Joe Biden’s long-promised Summit for Democracy could not be better timed, POLITICO’s Nahal Toosi observes. The virtual gathering, set for Thursday and Friday, comes as people… Read more »
Angered by President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, and filled with scorn for a dysfunctional West, China insists it is more democratic than America https://t.co/S2wF4QSWw4 from @TheEconomist https://t.co/S2wF4QSWw4 — David Rennie… Read more »
Latin America has an advanced system of regional organizations conceived to protect and foster democracy, says Miriam Kornblith, senior director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the… Read more »
The White House’s Summit for Democracy, beginning December 9, is designed to rally democratic countries to meet authoritarian challenges, notes the Wilson Center. It hosts a discussion of the summit’s… Read more »
Next month’s virtual Summit for Democracy will take place against a “gloomy backdrop,” The New Yorker’s Sue Halpern writes. When President Joe Biden announced the summit, back in August, the… Read more »
US President Joe Biden made it an early theme of his term in office, that democracy is under attack. “We’re at an inflection point,” he told an audience in Germany… Read more »