Hong Kong protests: 5 things you should know
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests over the summer have seen massive turnouts of 1 million people or more as well as violent encounters with police, notes Ching Kwan Lee, a professor of… Read more »
‘Autocracy Now’ – personalized authoritarianism
The leading figures on the world stage today practice a brutal, smash-mouth politics, a personalized authoritarianism, notes Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose. Old-school strongmen, they do whatever is needed to… Read more »
How liberal democracies can demonstrate capacity for reinvention & renewal
Is contemporary capitalism compatible with liberal democracy? The glib answer, though not wrong, is that it had better be. There are no known examples of fully socialized economies with a… Read more »
Have liberal democratic model’s geopolitical limits been reached?
The annus mirabilis of 1989 will not be repeated, says a former State Department adviser. Democracy and the other political principles that are at the foundation of the United States are… Read more »
Money, muscle, media: China’s soft power failure makes CCP leaders ‘look like bullies’
China has deployed a three-pronged strategy to suffocate pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong — propaganda, economic leverage and intimidation, or media, money, and muscle. For instance, videos – including… Read more »
China vs. Democracy
The U.S.-China trade dispute is now about much more than economics—it’s testing whether a democratically elected government can prevail in the face of the authoritarian government of the world’s most… Read more »
Thailand: How human trafficking enslaves workers
The Economist highlights a scandal previously exposed by the Solidarity Center, a core partner of the National Endowment for Democracy. emailTwitterFacebookTumblrLinkedinPrint
Why equality is essential to a successful democracy
Democracy presupposes relationships of political equality in which citizens equally share authority, but in today’s divided public square, democratic institutions are challenged by disagreement about how such institutions should be… Read more »
Japan & South Korea should ‘lead the charge’ for democracy in Asia, but….
Japan and South Korea should lead the charge for democracy in Asia, argues Hudson Institute analyst John Lee. But recent developments cast doubt on that prospect. In a rational world,… Read more »
At hinge in history, democracies need renewal to survive
Every generation is tempted to think that its challenges are unique. History teaches otherwise. Democracies can die — of that there should be no doubt. But they can also be… Read more »