Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed, How It Might Succeed
How resilient is the Islamic Republic of Iran? asks analyst Eric Lob. The answer to this question is that the future survival of the Islamic republic is tenuous at best… Read more »
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A new totalitarian syndrome? Putin’s goal is to weaken Western democracy
Moscow has perpetrated cyberwarfare, hacking, fake news and political interference for years, notes Leon Aron, director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Judging by all this—and especially by… Read more »
Poland ‘still a democracy’ – but illiberal?
Polish President Andrzej Duda, who fell out with the ruling party last month over judicial reform, risked escalating tension by blocking army appointments proposed by the NATO member’s government, Bloomberg… Read more »
Promoting democracy consistent with ‘America First’ foreign policy?
Is a commitment to advancing democracy consistent with an “America First” approach to foreign policy? History would suggest so. Over the years 1948-1952, the US devoted $130 billion in current… Read more »
Why advancing democracy matters
The crisis and ‘democratic deconsolidation’ in Venezuela is a glaring demonstration of the value and necessity of democracy promotion as a foreign policy objective, according to The Washington Post’s Jennifer… Read more »
A realist case for advancing Arab democracy
Despite the reportedly path-breaking retreat from even the rhetoric of promoting democracy and human rights, there is a robust realist argument for advancing freedom in the Middle East, according to Elliott… Read more »
Advancing or undermining democracy? No moral equivalence
Vladimir Putin denies meddling in U.S. politics, but he has charged that the U.S. government interfered “aggressively” in Russia’s 2012 presidential vote, notes Tom Malinowski, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights… Read more »
India’s Democracy at 70: Growth, Inequality, Nationalism
In recent decades, strong economic growth in India has given rise to an enormously wealthy upper class but failed to lift up the masses of the country’s poor. In the… Read more »
Limit democracy to save liberalism?
While illiberal democracy is certainly worrying, many of its critics fundamentally misunderstand how democracy’s historical relationship with liberalism and how democracy has traditionally developed, notes Sheri Berman, a professor of… Read more »
Darkening web’s fake humans a threat to democracy
Danish troops will get training in how to deal with Russian misinformation before being sent to join a NATO military build-up in Estonia in January, Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen… Read more »