COVID-19: Myth that democracies bungled pandemic
Though it may be surprising to many, democracies have proved that they have the edge in many aspects of the COVID crisis, including the initial containment of spread and compliance… Read more »
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‘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 »
Democracies vs Sharp Power: From awareness-raising to concerted action
Globalization has deepened integration between democracies and autocracies, tethering them to one another in complicated ways that have exposed democracies’ vulnerabilities that authoritarian powers are exploiting, the International Forum for… Read more »
How ‘summit for democracy’ can rally allies against autocracies
The U.S.-led countries of the trans-Atlantic alliance and their democratic East Asian allies lack a strategy for dealing with their most formidable competitor: China. But the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)… Read more »
Will global summit of democracies promote renewal?
The Decline of the West—New and Improved https://t.co/RTXuiZkJsI via @aminterest — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 17, 2020 While National Endowment for Democracy board member Nadia Schadlow recently echoed calls… Read more »
Reframe ‘information warfare’ to capitalize on democracies’ advantage
Differing views between democracies and autocracies on the role of information in society create an asymmetric information domain. The current contest for this information space—often framed as “information warfare”—plays to… Read more »
How Coronavirus will change the world: Autocracies more susceptible
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered widespread concern about democracy, with pundits like Larry Diamond claiming that democracy is now under imminent threat as authoritarian tendencies take over. The ability of authoritarian… Read more »
COVID-19 highlights democracies’ cohesion or confusion?
As the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision making body of the World Health Organization, gathers virtually today for its annual conference, more than 120 countries have signed a draft… Read more »
Democracies vulnerable to crisis: Covid exacerbates weaknesses, says BTI
The COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate the very weaknesses that have marked the democratic erosion of the last decade in most of the 137 developing and transformation countries examined in the… Read more »
The ‘Great Online Convergence’: Digital authoritarianism comes to democracies?
Russian civil society continues to dismantle pro-Kremlin disinformation, using both laughter and journalistic investigations. February has been a good month for those Russians who want to push back against pro-Kremlin… Read more »