Autocracy vs. democracy: A false dichotomy?
Unlike the old superpower contest between the United States and the Soviet Union, the incipient cold war between China and the US does not reflect a fundamental conflict of unalterably… Read more »
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From democratic regression to ‘third reverse wave’
The global democratic recession that began as a slow and quite uneven ebbing of progress fifteen years ago has now morphed into a substantial, comprehensive regression of freedom and democracy… Read more »
Can liberal bulwark address democratic backsliding?
Why Hungary’s Democratic Backsliding Should Prompt NATO To Act – Center for American Progress https://t.co/9ywQAEwYWC — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 10, 2020 Core to NATO’s future is its standing… Read more »
Wake-Up Call: Why COVID exposed West’s weakness – and how to fix it
The covid-19 pandemic “is a wake-up call…not just as a public-health disaster, but a stress test of Western government,” John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge contend in The Wake-Up Call:… Read more »
Democratic innovation key to strategy for shaping post-COVID world
While a recent global initiative cautioned that autocrats are exploiting the pandemic to erode democratic values and institutions, COVID-19 may yet allow the “re-imagining and strengthening of democracy” through innovative… Read more »
Democratic values can guide path to pandemic resilience
Germany, which took over the European Union’s rotating presidency on July 1, will put democratic values at the heart of the bloc’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, a policy… Read more »
The ongoing democratic experiment: Reason for hope
Recent trends – not last democratic backsliding and autocratic resurgence – are enough to make one think that David Stasavage’s new book should have been about the rise and subsequent… Read more »
COVID-19 ‘reveals fragility of our democratic values’?
Democratic governments have implemented measures similar to those by autocracies in response to the pandemic. Are these value trade-offs temporary experiments, or will they be here to stay? asks… Read more »
From democratic backsliding to ‘pandemic forthsliding’?
It is already clear why some countries have done better than others in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic so far, and there is every reason to think those trends will… Read more »
Pandemic represents ‘high-water mark’ for brittle authoritarian model’s appeal?
It is quite possible that the coronavirus pandemic will represent the high-water mark for the appeal of the authoritarian model and of its two standard-bearers, China and Russia, according to… Read more »