Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
In this Vital Center discussion, recorded before the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Rachel Kleinfeld unpacks her scholarship on rising political violence in the United States and how she became one of the leading experts in this field.
Ahead of Brazil’s elections in October, Brazilian professor of international relations Oliver Stuenkel describes the tests facing his country’s fragile democracy.
The country of Tunisia is in the midst of a slow motion political crisis. The country's populist president has crafted a new constitution that gives him broad, unchecked powers and secured its approval by referendum, albeit a referendum in which most Tunisians did not participate.
In this episode, Shruti speaks with Jennifer Murtazashvili about the problems with imposing liberal democracy in Afghanistan, building state capacity, education, the role of the U.S. in the Ghani government’s collapse and much more.
It really takes Tunisia away from the 2014 constitution. It concentrates all the power in the hands of the presidency, removes checks and balances, and there's no way to remove the president which is really troubling.
Trump created a permission structure for militia groups starting in 2016, and now those groups are infiltrating state and local Republican parties around the country. The Carnegie Endowment’s Rachel Kleinfeld joins Charlie Sykes to discuss the growing threat from the mainstreaming of political violence.
Only in the past decade or so has this concept of a liberal or rules-based international order come into widespread usage
Tunisia had done very well in building its political institutions and building the backbone of a democracy over the past decade but they failed to address the economic challenges the country was facing.
Rachel Kleinfeld discuss how important it is to hold those accountable who try to use violence to swing elections, including those responsible for the January 6th Capitol insurrection.
Here & Now's Miles Parks talks with Rachel Kleinfeld, who studies violence and democracy.