Global Governance & Politics

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Democracy & Disorder: The struggle for influence in the new geopolitics

Bruce Jones and Torrey Taussig

February 2019

Podemos (We Can) leader Pablo Iglesias, now running under the coalition Unidos Podemos (Together We Can), delivers a speech during the last campaign rally for Spain's upcoming general election in Madrid, Spain, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas - S1AETLVBIWAA

Mutations of the left in Western Europe

Célia Belin and Ted Reinert

February 2019

Members of French special police forces of Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) take part in a drill inside the Groupama Stadium in Decines, near Lyon, France, as part of a G6 Interior Ministers meeting of the six largest EU countries to discuss security and anti-terror issues, October 9, 2018. REUTERS/Emmanuel Foudrot - RC1259805A00

Terrorism and the threat to democracy

Daniel L. Byman

February 2019

Demonstrators shout slogans against Jair Bolsonaro, far-right lawmaker and presidential candidate of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), during a protest called "dictatorship never again" in Sao Paulo, Brazil October 10, 2018. The poster (R) reads: "Fight for democracy!" REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli - RC12E4A0D820

Rising democracies, burden-sharing, and the international liberal order

February 2019

A man casts his ballot at a polling station during a referendum Aegean port city of Izmir, Turkey, April 16, 2017. REUTERS/Osman Orsal - UP1ED4G0S0TZ1

Populist and authoritarian referendums: The role of direct democracy in democratic deconsolidation

February 2019

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at the opening ceremony for the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, China November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song/Pool - RC128E965F40

An inflection point for Pakistan’s democracy

February 2019

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C), who is also the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leader, shouts 'Banzai' (cheers) as he raises his hands with members of LDP after winning the leadership vote at the party's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan September 20, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai - RC1FA0EC7870

Japan’s consolidated democracy in an era of populist turbulence

February 2019

Protestors carry signs against the right-wing Sweden Democrat party during a demonstration against anti-immigration politics in downtown Stockholm October 4, 2010. REUTERS/Bob Strong (SWEDEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) - GM1E6A502DM01

Center-right strategies for addressing the rise of the European far right

February 2019

People queue to cast their vote at a polling station during a presidential election re-run in Gatundu, Kenya October 26, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola - RC17AAEA3B20

The power of demonstration: To increase resilience, democracy must be shown to work

February 2019

U.S. candidate in election for the next President of the World Bank David Malpass speaks at an event with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Who is David Malpass, Trump’s nominee for World Bank President?

Wednesday, February 6, 2019