In: Politics

Democratic Recession

The liberal world order finds itself increasingly under attack. Nationalism, populism, authoritarianism and tribal politics, long thought to be relics of the past, are experiencing a massive comeback. These summaries will help you make sense of this worrying trend.

Summaries

9 Book

How Civil Wars Start
And How to Stop Them
Barbara F. Walter
Crown, 2022
Book

Democracy Awakening
Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson
Viking, 2023
9 Book

The Digital Republic
On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
Jamie Susskind
Pegasus Books, 2022
8 Book

Spin Dictators
The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
Princeton UP, 2022
9 Article

Why Democracy Stalled in the Middle East
Economic Despair and the Triumph of the China Model
Amaney A. Jamal and Michael Robbins
Foreign Affairs, 2022
9 Video

The Great Delusion with Professor John Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer
The Bush School of Government & Public Service, 2018
Book

A World after Liberalism
Philosophers of the Radical Right
Matthew Rose
Yale UP, 2021
8 Report

The Global State of Democracy 2021
Building Resilience in a Pandemic Era
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
IDEA, 2021
9 Article

How Press Freedom Is Being Eroded in Hong Kong
Jennifer Jett
The New York Times, 2021
7 Report

The Macroeconomic Impact of Social Unrest
Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov et al.
IMF, 2021
8 Article

Global Migration Drives Global Democracy
How Workers Abroad Weaken Dictators Back Home
Abel Escribà-Folch et al.
Foreign Affairs, 2021
7 Article

The Age of Zombie Democracies
Why Autocrats Are Abandoning Even the Pretense of Democratic Rituals
Kenneth Roth
Foreign Affairs, 2021