How the Kremlin wages hybrid warfare
One of the greatest challenges facing democracies is “how to deal with authoritarian states that use the West’s democratic norms and institutions against itself, attempting to take advantage of, and… Read more »
Category: Democratic institutions
Populist performance ‘uncomfortable for democracy advocates’
In the Group of 20, just 32 percent of gross domestic product is controlled by mainstream democratic parties, down from 83 percent in 2007. Over the same period, the power… Read more »
Slovenia poll indicative of Orban’s illiberal soft power?
As expected, the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) won Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Slovenia with 25 percent of the vote. Taking a cue from Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, SDS employed anti-migration rhetoric… Read more »
Abandoning the transatlantic ideological battle against autocrats?
Vladimir Putin’s attempt to restore Russia’s status as a great power rival to the United States lends new urgency to transatlantic relations, since Europe is the foremost theater in… Read more »
Congress takes Australia’s lead on countering China’s influence operations
Senior Australian government ministers accused China on Tuesday of exerting undue pressure on Qantas Airways Ltd to change its website to refer to Taiwan as a Chinese territory. Australian Prime… Read more »
Mainstream Reformers Vs. Populists: The Game Is On
The big question for this era of European history is whether mainstream reformers will win out over populists, argues Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. The… Read more »
Strategic technologies’ global implications: can democracy survive the cyber age?
Russia’s authorities are likely to use the FIFA World Cup to target journalists with their classic disinformation, notes StopFake. Based on almost three years of weekly reporting and analysis of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign, researchers… Read more »
Military perfects art of undermining Pakistan’s ‘tutelary democracy’
On Friday Pakistan moved toward its second democratic transition of power in its 71-year-old history as Nasirul Mulk, a retired judge, was sworn in as caretaker prime minister for two months to… Read more »
Women’s rights a symptom of the Americas’ crisis of democracy
The Crisis of Democracy and Women’s Rights in the Americas is the subject of a discussion hosted by the Inter-American Dialogue, featuring Larissa Arroyo, director of Asociacion Ciudadana Acceder – ACCEDER;… Read more »
Middle East has ‘too much democracy’?
Tunisians are aware of their country as the only one in the Arab world trying to make the Islamist–non-Islamist divide work in a genuinely democratic way, notes Thomas Carothers,… Read more »