Arabs losing faith in democracy to deliver
Arabs are losing faith in democracy to deliver economic stability across the Middle East and North Africa, according to a major new survey. Nearly 23,000 people were interviewed across nine… Read more »
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Democracy’s strategic narrative: A case for optimism?
Strategic narratives about the future vary, but they tend to take one of two rough forms, argues Tufts University’s Daniel W. Drezner: Actors with positive expectations believe that the future… Read more »
How to pull Tunisia away from authoritarianism
President Kais Saied’s steady dismantling of Tunisian democracy and authoritarian takeover—which has included shuttering the parliament, using military courts to try civilians, and repressing political opponents and media figures—has continued… Read more »
Can US/EU reverse Tunisia’s ‘deviation from democracy’?
The United States will cut assistance to Tunisia because of its government’s “deviation from democracy,” the head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said yesterday. “Tunisia will… Read more »
How to become a 21st-Century ‘spin dictator’
Are the authoritarians who grace, or disgrace, our world, from Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Vladimir Putin, more like or unlike their twentieth-century predecessors? Two new books, each with virtues of… Read more »
Who will save Tunisia’s democracy?
Tunisia’s president has been carrying out a creeping coup, demolishing the country’s hard-fought democratic gains bit by bit. With an economy in turmoil and a splintered opposition, is there… Read more »
Tunisia: From nascent democracy to nascent dictatorship?
Without the amplifying force of smaller parties & powerful civil society groups, esp @UGTT_TN, Citizens Against the Coup’s roadmap to restore Tunisia’s constitutional order will be a dead letter, @MonicaLMarks… Read more »
How to cultivate media resilience
The technological revolution and the failure of free-market competition to protect factual reporting have left news outlets—particularly smaller players—increasingly vulnerable to authoritarians’ sharp-power influence campaigns, notes Edward Lucas, senior nonresident fellow… Read more »
Latin American democracy: Four reasons to be optimistic
Democracy is being harassed everywhere and Central America is suffering, too. Yet in this small corner of the Western hemisphere, the consequences of democratic breakdown could be especially dire for… Read more »
Democracy’s clear and present danger
This is the darkest moment for freedom in half a century, according to Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at… Read more »