Democracy Embattled: Towards ‘competitive decadence’?
America used to try to design the world, Russia used to try to sabotage those plans. Now things almost look the other way around, analyst Asli Aydintasbas observes. The decline… Read more »
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China ‘taking its ideological fight abroad’: Taiwan a test for worldwide propaganda strategy
The Chinese government has undertaken a vast information influence campaign designed to support its favored candidates and sow distrust in Taiwan’s democracy, notes Rush Doshi, Director of the Brookings Institution’s China Strategy… Read more »
2020: The year to focus on strengthening global democracy
In his recent book The Jungle Grows Back, American historian and journalist Robert Kagan asks readers to confront the possibility that this retreat isn’t a temporary slippage but rather that… Read more »
Support civil society not regime change to advance democracy
In the wake of the assassination of Qassim Suleimani, it’s imperative to note that “Iran’s capacity and inclination to cause problems for America also reflect our regional presence, posture and… Read more »
Why the West is losing the fight for democracy
The “politics of imitation” is a phrase that recurs innumerable times in The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy by Ivan Krastev (above) and Stephen Holmes,… Read more »
Russia’s ‘Internyet’: Beginning of the end of the open era?
The United States “needs to be prepared for retaliation in the hard cyber space and soft information space” after killing Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, says a top expert at the… Read more »
Back to the future: Another populist, volatile ‘roaring twenties’?
The populist test to liberal democracy will remain robust throughout the 2020s, argues Yasmeen Serhan, a London-based staff writer at The Atlantic: Across Europe, populist leaders have displayed their willingness to… Read more »
Democracy embattled: How bad is the crisis?
Around the world, democracies are getting weaker and elected politicians are becoming more unpopular. Are they serving the people—or themselves? The Economist asks (see below). The Crisis of Democracy and… Read more »
Roads to Modernity: Democratizing moral revolution
While political scientists tend to focus on institutional reforms as a route to democratic renewal, there are also more old-fashioned ways to boost civic fabric, The FT’s Gillian Tett argues…. Read more »
Democracy in 2020: Crisis or Renewal?
It is not enough to simply moan about the state of democracy in the western world; we badly need tangible actions and innovations to fix the challenges too. One option… Read more »