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Democracy

Democracy is in deeper trouble than capitalism

Isabel V. Sawhill

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Voters look for their names in the electoral roster at a polling station during the Nicaragua's presidential elections in Managua, November 6, 2016. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas

Order from Chaos

The rapidly deteriorating quality of democracy in Latin America

Friday, February 28, 2020

A woman gestures during a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of protests that ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in Algiers, Algeria February 22, 2020. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

Order from Chaos

Algerians have been protesting for a year. Here’s what you need to know.

M. Tahir Kilavuz and Sharan Grewal

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Past Policy 2020 Event

CANCELED — Educating for democracy: Lessons from the teaching profession

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Reports

Protesters take part in a demonstration calling on Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to resign after two members of his government were named in the Panama Papers leak scandal, outside the office of the Prime Minister in Valletta, Malta, April 10, 2016. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi MALTA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN MALTA - GF10000377881

Global Governance & Politics

The Democracy Playbook: Preventing and Reversing Democratic Backsliding

Norman Eisen, Andrew Kenealy, Susan Corke, Torrey Taussig, and Alina Polyakova

November 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a bilateral meeting during the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, August 25, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC1B90DB2B30

Japan

The stress test: Japan in an era of great power competition

Richard C. Bush, Lindsey Ford, Ryan Hass, Adam P. Liff, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Jonathan D. Pollack, Mireya Solís, Bruce Jones, Laura McGhee, and Ted Reinert

October 2019

Security cameras are installed at the entrance to the Id Kah Mosque during a government organised trip in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, January 4, 2019. Picture taken January 4, 2019. TO MATCH INSIGHT CHINA-XINJIANG/ REUTERS/Ben Blanchard - RC1B96A66D80

Technology & Innovation

Exporting digital authoritarianism

Alina Polyakova and Chris Meserole

August 2019

Alexander Gauland attends the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) congress in Hanover, Germany, December 2, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke - UP1EDC20PJJBI

Europe

Secular divergence: Explaining nationalism in Europe

May 2019

Sudanese demonstrators chant slogans as they participate in anti-government protests in Khartoum, Sudan January 17, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah - RC12DA214610

Middle East & North Africa

Prospects for democracy in the Middle East: An interview with Salam Fayyad

Salam Fayyad and Bruce Jones

March 2019

Blog Posts

Supporters of Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) look at their mobile phones before she speaks at her Iowa Caucus rally in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., February 3, 2020. Picture taken February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

TechTank

Technology, tribalism, and truth

Friday, February 7, 2020

Election workers start the counting of ballots during the second round of Guinea Bissau's presidential election in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau December 29, 2019. REUTERS/Christophe Van Der Perre

Africa in focus

Support for governance in Africa will level the playing field for US commercial engagement with the region

Witney Schneidman

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Marine Le Pen, National Front (FN) political party leader, and Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon attend a news conference, during the party's convention in Lille, France, March 10, 2018. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol - RC14728484E0

Order from Chaos

Highlights: Experts discuss the tensions between populist, nationalist, and democratic impulses

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

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Events

Panel Discussion | The crisis of democratic capitalism

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM IST

Unmaking the presidency

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST

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Experts

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Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Richard C. Bush

Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies

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France

What’s driving populism’s rise on both sides of the Atlantic?

David Dollar and Célia Belin

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

A worker pulls a roll of flags of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party kept for drying at a flag manufacturing factory, ahead of the 2019 general elections, in Ahmedabad, India, March 15, 2019. REUTERS/Amit Dave - RC120850C5B0

Podcast Episode

India’s role as a democracy in the liberal international order

Torrey Taussig and Dhruva Jaishankar

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

A large Indonesian flag is carried over the crowd at a rally calling for national unity and tolerance in central Jakarta, Indonesia December 4, 2016. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside - RC127395AEE0

Southeast Asia

Indonesia, an unlikely democracy

Jonathan Stromseth, Thomas Pepinsky, and Fred Dews

Friday, March 15, 2019

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