The labor movement has played a decisively prodemocratic role, not least as a catalyst for democratic transition in such states as Poland, South Africa, Brazil, and Chile, while Tunisia’s UGTT… Read more »
Authoritarians are collaborating in their efforts to consolidate power and accelerate attacks on democracy and human rights, according to Freedom in the World 2022: The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule…. Read more »
The mobilization of a pro-democracy coalition of trade unions – the Sudanese Professionals Association – raised the profile of student and opposition activists through a public call to spread the… Read more »
Although the full impact of December’s Summit for Democracy remains unclear, the gathering did serve at least two purposes, Carnegie analysts Frances Z. Brown and Thomas Carothers observe: First, it… Read more »
Should the United States prioritize democracy promotion over other foreign policy goals? A new analysis questions two assumptions: that the American people should support democracy promotion as a key foreign… Read more »
US President Joe Biden made it an early theme of his term in office, that democracy is under attack. “We’re at an inflection point,” he told an audience in Germany… Read more »
Dictators, Inc. The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) hosts a virtual briefing “probing the ties between corporations and dictators” with Vladimir Milov, Russian opposition politician and economist;… Read more »
U.S. officials are concerned by democratic backsliding across Africa, which has seen a wave of military coups in recent months — notably including in Sudan, where a coup last month… Read more »
Opinions of American democracy have declined overseas even as other forms of US power remain in high regard, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Centre. “A median… 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 »