Yes, liberal democracies do need to build up a cohesive alliance to counter the threats – militarily and in the war of ideas – that are posed by aggressive authoritarianism, but without falling into two dangerous pitfalls – the author of How Democracies Die warns: to inadvertently bring all illiberal regimes into a united geopolitical front, and to think that the threat of personalistic despotism is just somewhere “out there”, and not also within the fragile corps of Western democracies themselves.
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- Seth Moskowitz 4 January 2022Never as on January 6 2021 did America fear outright institutional collapse. While its democracy has proven resilient, none of the ingredients for a constitutional crisis has meanwhile been taken off the table, writes Seth Moskowitz.
- Fabio Turco 23 December 2021The ‘unexpected competitor’ in Hungary’s upcoming elections, Péter Márki-Zay, is strengthening its profile, both internally and at European level. Outgoing PM Viktor Orbán will be counting on the deep state he has built over the last 12 years to cling to power, or come back soon.
- Ananya Vajpeyi 20 December 2021Christophe Jaffrelot’s latest oeuvre provides a comprehensive account of how, and why, India started descending into today’s political nightmare. A review.
- Simone Disegni 15 December 2021EU institutions have launched a large-scale deliberative democracy exercise to gather fresh reform ideas. Now they need to decide what to do with them.
- Andrea Walton 11 November 2021Covid-battered Bulgaria is heading to polls for the third time in a year. But a hung Parliament looms, again.
- Abdel Aziz Hali 25 October 2021Pro- and anti-Saied demonstrators are staging a growing “squares battle” after the centralization of powers in the hands of the President.
- Gianni Del Panta 6 October 2021From Egypt to Tunisia, from Algeria to Morocco, Islamist and democratic hopes alike have been dashed, or crashed. Time to reflect on how that could happen.
- Abdel Aziz Hali 4 October 2021The poorly known Tunisian geologist was tasked by President Saied of forming a new government. Will she have any space to deliver?
- Mohammed Hashas 20 September 2021Why were the moderate Islamists of PJD ousted from power, and how can that change Morocco’s political scenario?