For the fifth consecutive year, the number of countries moving in an authoritarian direction exceeds the number of countries moving towards democracy. But even if the long democratic recession is… Read more »
Democracy is in retreat, facing an “ominous decline” across the world, according to the latest “Freedom in the World” report from Freedom House. It is a global retreat and it is… Read more »
How to catalyze support for nonviolent pro-democracy movements fighting against authoritarian rule? A joint project of the Atlantic Council and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), endorsed by the… Read more »
A “long twilight struggle” between democracy and communism required Americans to bear fresh burdens, John F. Kennedy said in his 1961 inauguration speech. Two years later, Hannah Arendt stated in… Read more »
The global democratic recession that began as a slow and quite uneven ebbing of progress fifteen years ago has now morphed into a substantial, comprehensive regression of freedom and democracy… Read more »
If history shows that successive waves of democracy are followed by anti-democratic reaction, the current surge of authoritarian, illiberal or populist politics should suggest that we’re eventually due a democratic… Read more »
In the latest issue of the Journal of Democracy, (PDF), Marc Plattner makes the provocative claim that “the era of democratic transitions is over, and should now become the province of the… Read more »
Global democracy is under siege. According to Freedom House’s authoritative “Freedom in the World” report, 8 of 10 people in the world now live in countries rated either “Not Free”… Read more »
Covid-19 has transformed public health into an arena of geopolitical competition; at the same time, pandemics are a global challenge requiring international cooperation, the European Council on Foreign Relations suggests…. Read more »
Russian lawmakers want to declare the fall of the Soviet Union three decades ago “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” The proposal submitted Monday by the right-wing nationalist Liberal Democratic… Read more »