How to fix democracy
How To Fix Democracy film is a documentary from the Bertelsmann Foundation about the contemporary crisis of liberal democracy. Filmed in Europe and the United States, it features… Read more »
Category: democratic values
Ideology is Iranian regime’s raison d’être
Lessons From Three Years in an Iranian Prison https://t.co/gI9IXYQ2eL via @ForeignAffairs — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 3, 2020 Anti-Americanism lies at the core of the Islamic Republic’s state… Read more »
Populism ‘on the defensive’
“Liberal democracy has responded to the populist mobilization with a democratic counter-mobilization – also and especially in the political center,” says @BertelsmannSt https://t.co/AwjM9BJ91r — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 3, 2020… Read more »
Decades of delusion: How the Cold War wasn’t won?
America today faces a potentially existential challenge to its national security as two great power adversaries, Russia and China, contest its post-Cold War dominion. How did we get here? asks… Read more »
Placing democratic values at the heart of international strategy
In a recent Atlantic Council/German Marshall Fund virtual meeting, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressing the importance of making NATO a more global alliance to defend democratic values in a… Read more »
Democratic values can guide path to pandemic resilience
Germany, which took over the European Union’s rotating presidency on July 1, will put democratic values at the heart of the bloc’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, a policy… Read more »
Putin’s Russia threatens the West – and its own people
Contemporary Russia is probably weaker in geographical, demographic, economic, military and diplomatic terms than at any time in the past century, notes Evan Mawdsley, a former professor of international history… Read more »
What happened to the West?
Conceptions of the West guided and led American foreign policy for decades during the 20th century, the International Relations Council reports. Historian Michael Kimmage argues in his new book, The… Read more »
‘The Long Reach of Racism’ distorts freedom and citizenship
America is the only modern nation that had slavery in its midst from the very beginning. The institution and its neo-slavery successor, Jim Crow, played a formative role in… Read more »
Has Covid consolidated Xi’s rule? China’s three strategic options
There is a growing body of evidence, assembled and interpreted by talented China experts, that the Chinese government is indeed aiming for global power and perhaps global primacy over the… Read more »