A new hope for democracy?
“Democracy: A new hope?” is the theme of this year’s World Forum for Democracy, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The event, taking place from 7 to 9 November at the Council… Read more »
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Democratic renewal critical to expanding global influence
While the Biden administration has endorsed a foreign policy centered on human rights and democracy promotion abroad, the American public does not consider those issues to be top foreign policy… Read more »
Building Back Democratically
…. is the theme of this year’s Forum 2000. The 25th Forum 2000 Conference on the theme of What Now? Building Back Democratically will take place on October 10-12, 2021, focusing principally on the following themes:… Read more »
Democratic renewal: Pushing back attacks on civil society
The narrative of democratic crisis and the populist surge is too one-sided. European politics is in fact in a state of push-and-pull between democratic rollback and democratic revival, argues Richard… Read more »
Democratic renewal would again blend domestic and foreign affairs
President Biden grew up in the world of Cold War liberal anti-communism, associated with the historian Arthur Schlesinger, the author of “The Vital Center”; the labor leader Walter Reuther; and… Read more »
Democracy’s postwar renewal: Lessons for today?
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried. The maxim, made famous by Winston Churchill, was actually expressed six months earlier by… Read more »