West facing ‘twilight of liberal world order?
External challenges to the liberal world order from Russia and China and continuing weakness and fracturing from within are likely to feed on each other, says a leading analyst. The… Read more »
Category: Analysis
Low trust downgrades U.S. to ‘flawed democracy’ status, says EIU
The U.S. has been downgraded from a full democracy to a flawed democracy by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The group’s Democracy Index considers “60 indicators across five broad categories:… Read more »
Organized labor – a secret weapon against populism?
Organized labor may be a secret weapon against the recent wave of populism engulfing advanced democracies, argues Elena Nikolova, a research fellow at the Central European Labor Studies Institute in Slovakia…. Read more »
Reimagining the role of donors: from funding projects to funding struggles?
Bilateral and multilateral donors occupy a critical position in the prevailing human rights business model. Their funding is essential for advancing human rights, yet with their current approaches, they may… Read more »
Russia ‘trying to collapse’ liberal order, Biden tells Davos
Russia is undermining the liberal world order in its quest for influence, Vice President Biden said Wednesday in his last major speech before leaving office: Biden cited Iran and China… Read more »
West’s political and normative project ‘under fire’
Germany’s outgoing President Joachim Gauck on Wednesday used his final major address to emphasize the importance of a resilient democracy and robust security policy, DW reports. He called today’s Germany “the best… Read more »
Why defending democracy is no vice
Despite recent setbacks, there remain compelling moral and self-interested reasons to support democracy and human rights around the world, argues Michael McFaul, director of Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for… Read more »
How the forward march of democracy was halted
Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, and of the apparent triumph of American values and power, U.S. policymakers now confront the very basic question of which values… Read more »
Democracy under assault in a ‘Post-Fact World’
The emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web in the 1990s was greeted as a moment of liberation and a boon for democracy worldwide, notes Francis Fukuyama, a… Read more »
Inequality threatens world economy, democracy, says WEF
The widening gap between the rich and poor has emerged as one of the biggest threats to the global economy, said the World Economic Forum in a report published on… Read more »