Democracy

China

Democracy first: How the US can prevail in the political systems competition with the CCP

Patrick W. Quirk, David O. Shullman, and Johanna Kao

September 2020

Ambassador of Germany to Russia Geza Andreas von Geyr is seen outside the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia September 9, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Order from Chaos

Germany is well placed to lead a tougher EU response to Russia

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, September 10, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee during the final event of the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., August 27, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Campaigns & Elections

The RNC and Trump’s acceptance speech

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, September 4, 2020

Protesters wait in line by the thousands to be let into socially distanced searing areas near the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall before the beginning of civil rights march organized by Al Sharpton to call attention to systemic racism and police violence after the May police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The night before The Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks, protests consumed the blocks surrounding the White House, as President Trump gave his presidential nomination acceptance speech with sounds from noisy demonstrations in the background. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

The Avenue

Protesting is as important as voting

Andre M. Perry and Carl Romer

Friday, August 28, 2020

Reports

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Democracy

Democracy after coronavirus: Five challenges for the 2020s

Célia Belin and Giovanna De Maio

August 2020

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law during a hearing on "Online Platforms and Market Power", in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2020. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS

Telecommunications & Internet

Utilities for democracy: Why and how the algorithmic infrastructure of Facebook and Google must be regulated

Josh Simons and Dipayan Ghosh

August 2020

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Southeast Asia

Decoupling governance and democracy: The challenge of authoritarian development in Southeast Asia

Thomas Pepinsky

July 2020

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) poses for a selfie with House Democratic women of the 116th Congress

Essay

100 years on, politics is where the U.S. lags the most on gender equality

Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron and EU adviser Clement Beaune attend a videoconference at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France March 10, 2020. Michel Euler/Pool via REUTERS

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – April 2020

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Blog Posts

U.S. President Donald Trump is interviewed by hosts hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum during a Fox News Channel virtual town hall called "America Together: Returning to Work" about the response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic while sitting in front of the statue of former President Abraham Lincoln inside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S. May 3, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Up Front

August 1864 vs. August 2020: A contrast in leadership

Tom Wheeler

Thursday, August 13, 2020

People wearing face masks hold signs and copies of the German constitution as they participate in a protest by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party against the government's restrictions following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Berlin, Germany, May 16, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Order from Chaos

Germany’s far-right a major loser from COVID-19, so far

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Anti-government demonstrators hold a banner that reads "Out Bolsonaro," in reference to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, during a protest named "Amazonas for Democracy" in Manaus, Brazil, June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Order from Chaos

Reopening the World: How the pandemic is reinforcing authoritarianism

Shadi Hamid

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

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Multimedia

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a news conference following a meeting with international economic and financial organisations at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany May 20, 2020, on the effects of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Odd Andersen/Pool via REUTERS

Germany

Merkel’s pandemic moment

Constanze Stelzenmüller and Gideon Rachman

The Rachman Review

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

India

The mudslinging campaign and Barkha Dutt on the “fear” election of 2019

Tanvi Madan, Milan Vaishnav, and Sadanand Dhume

Grand Tamasha

Friday, April 24, 2020

France

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

David Dollar and Célia Belin

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

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Reports

Webinar: Democracy’s defenders — American diplomacy in the age of COVID-19

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