Can Democracy Assistance Be Effective in the Age of Authoritarianism?
Guest post by Oren Samet and Susan Hyde Western governments today spend billions on international democracy promotion programming,…
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What Coups and Elections Have in Common
Guest post by Josef Woldense and Jun Koga Sudduth For Russia’s President Putin, the invasion of neighboring Ukraine…
Will the US Help Spread Authoritarianism?
Guest post by Filippo Costa Buranelli Is the world experiencing an authoritarian backlash? Is democracy receding while authoritarians…
Military Dissent Could Curb Democratic Backsliding in the US
By Deborah Avant and guest contributor Kara Kingma Neu In the wake of increasing military dissent over its…
Will the Protesters Return? Civil Disobedience in the Time of COVID-19
Guest post by Olga Onuch, Gwen Sasse, Henry Hale, Volodymyr Kulyk and Felipe G. Santos With government bans on…
The (Non)Democratic Effects of COVID-19. Which Regimes Will Recover?
Guest post by Roman-Gabriel Olar The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to public health, but also…
COVID-19 and Myanmar—A Looming Humanitarian Crisis
Guest post by Shelli Israelsen On March 31, 2020, Myanmar’s Ministry of Health and Sports confirmed its first…
Between Authoritarianism and Democracy
By Alexander Beresford, Marie E. Berry, and Laura Mann for Denver Dialogues. For decades, political scientists have debated…
Where is the Global Left Wing?
By Deborah Avant for Denver Dialogues. A recent post by Dan Slater and Lucus Way lists intervention by…
