Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carnegie and the Observer Research Foundation co-hosted a two-day meeting of Carnegie’s Rising Democracies Network in New Delhi, India.
If Argentinian President Mauricio Macri makes good on his recent statements, a renewed push to rethink and promote democracy and human rights in South America could be on the way.
Calls for different forms of democracy are becoming more prominent and widespread. Yet, it remains unclear what such models should look like.
Many people in non-Western countries say that they want a democratic system of governance—but just not Western-style democracy. Yet what is meant by non-Western democracy often remains unclear, and at times is merely a cover for non-democratic practices.
The crisis unfolding in Venezuela will be a litmus test for both national policies and regional mechanisms that are supposed to strengthen democratic rules and norms.
The military coup in Thailand has presented Asian democracies with a test case for their commitment to upholding democratic norms in the region.