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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

Book

Autocracy, Inc.
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum
Doubleday, 2024
9 Book

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

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

A helicopter crash in Alaska reverberates through Europe’s media
Jon Allsop
Columbia Journalism Review, 2021
8 Book

Can It Happen Here?
Authoritarianism in America
Cass R. Sunstein
Dey Street, 2018
8 Book

Kill All Normies
Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
Angela Nagle
Zero Books, 2017
8 Book

Winter Is Coming
Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
Garry Kasparov
Public Affairs, 2015
9 Article

The Constitution of Knowledge
Jonathan Rauch
National Affairs, 2018
8 Report

The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue
Proclaiming the Deeper Truth About Political Illegitimacy
Oliver Hahl et al.
ASA, 2018