In today’s ideological competition between illiberal autocracy and liberal democracy, Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia have made major investments in tools for propagating their worldviews and explaining their policies. The United… Read more »
One of the great achievements of the U.S. and its allies was crafting a world system in which liberal democracy is regarded as the sole form of legitimate government, notes… Read more »
COVID-19 could nudge minds and societies towards authoritarianism, according to a recently published study, from the University of Cambridge. Researchers examined the impact of the behavioral immune system on attitudes… Read more »
While the Biden administration has endorsed a foreign policy centered on human rights and democracy promotion abroad, the American public does not consider those issues to be top foreign policy… Read more »
Reagan-Fascell Fellowships The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program offers five-month fellowships to leading democracy activists, journalists, civil society leaders, and scholars from around the world to conduct independent projects at the National… Read more »
North Africa Faces the Pandemic: Carnegie’s Middle East Program invites you to an online discussion on the pandemic’s effect on vulnerable populations in Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco & Tunisia. Acting Sada editor-in-chief Rafiah Al-Talei… Read more »
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 »
Pandemic geopolitics are intensifying investments in pro-democracy civic capacities and democracies’ societal resilience, according to a new report from the Carnegie Endowment. Developments are beginning to condition many states’ domestic… Read more »
Liberal democracies have failed to cooperate on protecting the future of the internet from authoritarian challengers, a new analysis suggests. Despite shared values, cooperation is not as simple as commonly… Read more »
Has Venezuela’s social and cultural pluralism resisted Chavismo’s efforts at cooptation to provide an alternative to an authoritarian regime or does the country face only dim scenarios? Think tanks and… Read more »