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There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline

By Fiona Hill

2021

The American flag flies at half staff at the U.S. Capitol Building on the fifth day of the impeachment trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump, on charges of inciting the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2021. REUTERS/Al Drago TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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A superpower, like it or not

Robert Kagan

March/April 2021

FILE PHOTO: Protestors rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia January 31, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Order from Chaos

EU support for Russian democracy is inadequate

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES NOVEMBER 2, 2020: A voter wears a bilingual I voted sticker at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) during early voting in the 2020 US presidential election. Yegor Aleyev/TASS.No use Russia.

Campaigns & Elections

Black voters helped Biden get elected. His presidency will be defined by how he acts on racial equity.

Rashawn Ray

The Washington Post Monday, February 8, 2021

Reports

Unused privacy booths are seen at a voting site in Tripp Commons inside the Memorial Union building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Election Day in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, U.S. November 3, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan

Campaigns & Elections

In 2020, the largest metro areas made the difference for Democrats

David F. Damore, Robert E. Lang, and Karen Danielsen

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases speaks via video link during the 148th session of the Executive Board on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Geneva, Switzerland, January 21, 2021. Christopher Black/WHO/Handout via REUTERS

Democracy

Bolstering democracies in a changing international order: The case for democratic multilateralism

Bruce Jones and Adam Twardowski

Monday, January 25, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. and European Union flags are pictured during the visit of Vice President Mike Pence to the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Report

Stronger together: A strategy to revitalize trans-Atlantic power

December 2020

U.S. Politics & Government

A Time for Renewal and Prosperity

John Allen

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks about health care and the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris listens during a brief news conference at the theater serving as his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., November 10, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Campaigns & Elections

Exit polls show both familiar and new voting blocs sealed Biden’s win

William H. Frey

November 12, 2020

Blog Posts

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the presidential, legislative and communal council elections, under the simmering political violence and the growing threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ngozi, Burundi May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Clovis Guy Siboniyo

Africa in Focus

Voting in a pandemic: Lessons for elections in Africa in 2021

Rushdi Nackerdien

Monday, February 1, 2021

Plenary session devotes part of it to questioning the government about the country's situation and the protests in Tunis, Tunisia on January 20, 2021. The Assembly of the Representatives of the People, agenda includes holding a dialogue with the government about the general situation in the country after the protest movement in the country, in the presence of the Minister of Social Affairs, the Minister of Economy, Finance and Investment Support, and the Minister of National Defense who represents the Prime Minister. (Photo by Mohamed Krit/ SIPA USA)No Use Germany.

Order from Chaos

Ten years in, Tunisian democracy remains a work in progress

Sharan Grewal

Friday, January 22, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event on his administration's Covid-19 response in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Biden in his first full day in office plans to issue a sweeping set of executive orders to tackle the raging Covid-19 pandemic that will rapidly reverse or refashion many of his predecessor's most heavily criticized policies. Photographer: Al Drago/Pool/Sipa USA No Use Germany.

Africa in Focus

Biden, democracy, and Africa

Witney Schneidman

Friday, January 22, 2021

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U.S. Foreign Policy

John R. Allen on restoring American leadership in 2021

John R. Allen and David Dollar

Monday, January 4, 2021

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

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Merkel’s pandemic moment

Constanze Stelzenmüller and Gideon Rachman

The Rachman Review

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

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

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Democracy

There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline

A superpower, like it or not

EU support for Russian democracy is inadequate

Black voters helped Biden get elected. His presidency will be defined by how he acts on racial equity.

Reports

In 2020, the largest metro areas made the difference for Democrats

Bolstering democracies in a changing international order: The case for democratic multilateralism

Stronger together: A strategy to revitalize trans-Atlantic power

A Time for Renewal and Prosperity

Exit polls show both familiar and new voting blocs sealed Biden’s win

Blog Posts

Voting in a pandemic: Lessons for elections in Africa in 2021

Ten years in, Tunisian democracy remains a work in progress

Biden, democracy, and Africa

Events

Reconciling and healing America

The future of democracy in Asia

The future of liberal democracy: A conversation with G. John Ikenberry

Related Books

Five Rising Democracies

Experts

David F. Damore

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Rashawn Ray

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Governance Studies

Robert Kagan

Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Project on International Order and Strategy

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John R. Allen on restoring American leadership in 2021

Merkel’s pandemic moment

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