Democracy without liberalism?
The two core components of liberal democracy—liberalism and democracy—have been diverging for some time. For most of the modern era, the two concepts went hand in hand, at least in… Read more »
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Ukraine: A war between democracy and nihilism
Ukraine‘s resistance reminds us that democracy is about human risk and human principles, and a Ukrainian victory would give democracy a fresh wind, argues Timothy D. Snyder, Richard C. Levin… Read more »
A global turning point or is democracy finished?
Francis Fukuyama‘s widely misinterpreted 1992 book, “The End of History and the Last Man,” was assumed to be a statement of fact rather than the description of a process, Joe… Read more »
Why Ukraine is key to saving liberal democracy
What has happened in Ukraine provides “a valuable lesson” for the world’s democracies, argues Francis Fukuyama, the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies… Read more »
Where are #TheTaken? Russian military has abducted, killed Ukrainian mayors – Zelensky
The Russian military has abducted and killed a number of Ukrainian mayors, and the bodies of several have already been found, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with… Read more »
Victory of a Defeat? Ukraine invasion ‘plants a bomb under Russian state’
A completely unnecessary war has started, born out of one man’s nostalgia, paranoia and fear of losing power, Anne Applebaum tweeted. Like the Russian czars before him—like Stalin, like Lenin—Putin… Read more »
Ukraine: ‘What Putin Fears Most’
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO membership was often seen as a path toward EU integration among the new democracies of central and eastern Europe. But since NATO… Read more »
‘Afghanistan Aftershocks’: Do democracies lack strategic patience?
In the wake of the Afghanistan debacle, if democracies conclude military-backed liberal intervention in pursuit of democracy cannot work, will autocracies show the same self-restraint? The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour asks:… Read more »
Penn Kemble Fellowship Applications Close July 14
There is one week left to apply for the 2021-2022 Cohort of the Penn Kemble Forum on Democracy! Applications will only remain open until July 14, 2021. Drawing on the expertise of… Read more »
Counterintuitive? Never been a better time to advance democracy
The riot at the Capitol on January 6 brought American democracy “to its knees,” said US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT). But that shouldn’t prevent the United States from trying… Read more »