In 2024, a series of elections reinforced EU concerns about the fragility of European democracies. This, coupled with intensifying conflict dynamics and authoritarian trends worldwide, led the EU to focus on protecting democracy at home at the expense of supporting it globally.
In analyzing the U.S. political scene, people have to allow for a three-class rather than a two-class model: the working class, the rich, and the professional-managerial class.
The case of Georgia illuminates how pluralistic values and civic mobilization can serve as primary sources of resilience, even when formal institutional safeguards falter. Georgia’s experience shows that democratic culture can deepen even as autocratization advances.
A conversation about the future of Syria.
With a rich pre-Soviet civic history, Georgia was most recently the U.S.-supported democratic trailblazer in the South Caucasus—and yet it now faces significant setbacks. What went wrong?
Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, and Charles Lister, senior fellow and the director of the Syria and Countering Terrorism & Extremism programs at the Middle East Institute, to explore the fall of the Assad regime and Syria's future.
Bureaucratic reform is important, but DOGE's agenda is the wrong answer.
