Cultivating democratic resilience
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday announced the launch of a new program to capture and analyze evidence of war crimes and other atrocities allegedly perpetrated by Russia in Ukraine,… Read more »
Category: democratic resilience
Democratic resilience initiative – a strategic imperative
Democratic resilience is increasingly invoked by policymakers as an aspect of foreign and security strategies, and as an aim of internally strengthening democratic practices, amid changing threat environments, researchers suggest…. Read more »
Resilient Ukraine – one of the ‘opening salvos in seismic struggle of our time’
“Ukrainian democracy continues” as Russia is failing to achieve nearly all of its war objectives in Ukraine, a senior White House official said on Sunday. “In our view, Russia has already… Read more »
Will French voters see through ‘dangerous façade’ of toxic populism?
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa slammed French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Thursday in a joint op-ed for Le Monde,… Read more »
Autocratic resurgence vs democratic renewal: 7-3 halftime score?
Liberal democracy is back to where it was in 1989, says the most recent report from the Varieties of Democracy Institute (V–Dem) – in other words, the massive gains in… Read more »
Ukraine’s resilience sets affirmative agenda for democratic renewal
The engagement of Ukrainian civilians in the current fight against Russia’s invasion of their country can serve as an example of democratic resilience for Taiwan, Damon Wilson (above), president and… Read more »
Ukraine’s democratic antifascism exposes Putin’s Big Lie
In #DialoguesOnWar (above), Myroslav Marynovych, Vice Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, and Serhii Plokhii, Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, address the critical issues arising from the Ukraine… Read more »
‘Countering Hybrid Warfare’: Social contracts cultivate resilience
The authors of this article urge countries in the Kremlin’s crosshairs to preemptively identify societal vulnerabilities to hybrid warfare. https://t.co/mzvGi6Mz0o — Texas NatSec Review (@TXNatSecReview) February 2, 2022 How can… Read more »
Russia threat ‘reveals strength of Ukraine’s civil society’
In threatening Ukraine, the goal of the Russian Federation is to attack European democracy, the country’s Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova told CBS News. “The reason why Putin attacked… Read more »
Defying political science? Panama’s trajectory to resilience
The Central American country has defied many assumptions of political science to produce one of the world’s most impressive trajectories of the past three decades, resulting in a notably resilient… Read more »