Democracy and its advocates are undergoing an existential crisis as authoritarian resurgence externally and illiberal challenges at home seek to undermine the values and institutions underpinning the liberal international order,… Read more »
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian populism has lost its magic, notes Soner Cagaptay, a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of A Sultan… Read more »
For the fifth consecutive year, the number of countries moving in an authoritarian direction exceeds the number of countries moving towards democracy. But even if the long democratic recession is… Read more »
Why do autocrats like Maduro, Ortega, Putin, Lukashenko, et al, take the trouble to mount elections that everyone knows are false? asks Moisés Naím, author of the forthcoming The Revenge of… Read more »
The sprawl of contemporary liberal values—from LGBTQ rights to gender equality to the rights of migrants—invites pushback in both democratic and nondemocratic states. It provides illiberal politicians with opportunities to… Read more »
Digital capabilities are ideologically neutral and can serve authoritarian as well as democratic tendencies, so development donors must be wary of whom they partner with and how they deliver assistance… Read more »
Canada will make support for democracy and human rights a foreign policy priority, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Support for democracy and human rights should be “a core priority in Canada’s… Read more »
The COVID pandemic has put tremendous strain on Latin American citizens and governments, testing the resilience of democracy. The good news coming from valuable new survey data is that the… Read more »
The Biden administration has announced a partnership with Australia, Denmark, Norway, Canada, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to curb authoritarian regimes’ access to potentially repressive technologies. The Export… Read more »
China seems to be in the midst of a concerted push to re-define “democracy” in an international context, likely part of the push for a “Chinese discourse system” and telling… Read more »