Losing faith in the democratic ideal?
What accounts for the troubled condition of liberal democracy today? Marc F. Plattner asks in the latest issue of The Journal of Democracy: Standard explanations cite factors such as slowing… Read more »
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$18bn boost for Open Society – but CEU held in ‘legal limbo’
George Soros, who built one of the world’s largest fortunes through a famous series of trades, has turned over nearly $18 billion to Open Society Foundations, according to foundation officials,… Read more »
How to put the demos back into European democracy
Liberal democracies confront a range of domestic and international challenges. In Europe, the most serious threats come from a blend of ideological and institutional inertia in the face of a… Read more »
Globally, broad support for democracy, but many endorse nondemocratic alternatives
Emboldened autocrats and rising populists have shaken assumptions about the future trajectory of liberal democracy, both in nations where it has yet to flourish and countries where it seemed… Read more »
Wikileaks a ‘fully owned subsidiary’ of Russia’s ‘social media blitzkrieg’
Wikileaks is an arm of Russian intelligence and a new Cold War is descending on Europe through the weaponizing of information, Hillary Clinton claimed yesterday, The Times (London) reports: The… Read more »
How to confront growing authoritarian threats to democracy
The themes and leaders that would engage young people in politics are absent, the Forum 2000 Prague conference heard on Monday: Mainly in democratic countries, young people are not… Read more »
Why democracy will survive world’s political turmoil
Democracy is seriously threatened in the present-day world due to a rise in corruption, organized crime, populism and extremism, participants in the Forum 2000 conference concluded in the first… Read more »
How an Oval Office meeting changed U.S. policy toward Venezuela
President Trump’s decision to suddenly announce a major change in U.S. policy toward Venezuela in February began with an unexpected Oval Office meeting with Lilian Tintori, the wife of the… Read more »
Time for a new European narrative?
A new narrative, or a new European political project, or an institutional revolution, is exactly what Europe needs, according to six recent books reviewed by Anne Applebaum, a board member… Read more »
Why nation-states are good for democracy
The crisis in Spain over Catalonia’s proposed secession has prompted widespread debate about the relationship of democracy to the nation-state. The populist revolt of our day reflects the deep rift… Read more »