Brazilian democracy faces a moment of “immense danger”, a manifesto signed by almost a million citizens has warned amid growing fears president Jair Bolsonaro could refuse to accept defeat in October’s… Read more »
Russia’s first Crimean war sounds a lot like Ukraine today, NPR’s Greg Myre notes. “There are very distinct parallels. And I think Putin has probably overstretched himself in the same… Read more »
New Zealand’s Prime Minister has warned the West not to cast Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a broader battle between autocracy and democracy, saying it could undermine efforts to get… Read more »
Experts have described Hungary’s Viktor Orbán as a new-school despot, a soft autocrat, an anocrat, and a reactionary populist. Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of international affairs at Princeton, has… Read more »
When journalists started approaching Protect Democracy a few years ago for practical advice on how to cover threats to democracy, they consulted the work of leading scholars who study the history… Read more »
With autocrats and illiberal forces resurgent, democracy is in danger worldwide, according to Stanford University’s Larry Diamond. Yet the world is at a “fluid moment” in which trends “could swing… Read more »
“Crisis of democracy” is a cliché of our time. But what about the even more consequential crisis of autocracy? Just watch the meltdowns in China, Russia, Turkey and arguably Africa’s… Read more »
Savvy autocrats have deployed the three P’s of populism, polarization and post-truth to cultivate ‘stealthocracy’ – maintaining liberal democracy’s institutional architecture while gutting the substance of such norms as accountability,… Read more »
Ukraine is not the only place where the contest between autocracy and democracy is taking place. It is also happening within several European democracies, through elections rather than military conflict…. Read more »
Just as the West overlooked abuses by anti-communist allies during the cold war, it will make ugly compromises now to counter Vladimir Putin’s revanchist Russia, The Economist suggests. Doing so… Read more »