Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Yascha Mounk and Rachel Kleinfeld discuss the threats to American democracy.
The bureaucracy is not “out of control” across the board.
Now, with the armed forces temporarily on the defensive, newly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has a historic opportunity to reassert civilian control over Brazil’s military.
Most liberal societies are rich because you have the protection of economic rights in addition to your individual civil and political rights and that leads to a level of prosperity.
If the smaller parties in the UK manage to take enough votes away from both Labour and the Tories, they could have a big impact on how much power the next government can wield. But all in all, the socialists might have the most to lose.
In a year dominated by the rhetoric of defending democracy, EU democracy support policies were adjusted in important ways to align with the new geopolitical context. However, the union also seemed to treat commitments in this area as second-order priorities compared to security.
In the last decade, nondemocratic regimes have received more development assistance than democratic countries. This reveals how donors struggle with autocratization despite a rhetorical commitment to democracy.
Viktor Orbán began his second term as prime minister of Hungary in 2010. Since then, his governments and their promoted reforms have subverted the country’s liberal institutions and highlighted the fragility of democracy.
Threats, intimidation, and actual violence are skyrocketing on the Right.
Confronting kleptocratic networks will be a defining challenge for democratic societies and their policymakers. Unfortunately, too many democracies fail to prioritize global corruption as a major national security threat or to see how their own laws, institutions, and social norms enable it.