The president’s barrage of pronouncements on foreign policy mean his Cabinet members’ statements on foreign policy have become more reliable indicators of administration positions.
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It is easy to recognize the ideas of philosopher James Burnham, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan, in arguments and actions of the Trump administration.
Philosopher Jason Stanley and historian Timothy Snynder have sought to explain authoritarian impulses and politics in the United States and elsewhere and how to resist these.
Israel’s democracy was already diminishing before the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, but things have only worsened since then.
One of Donald Trump’s favorite politicians is the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. Would a country led again by Trump embrace similar antidemocratic politics?
Huge pro-democracy demonstrations in Israel have taken place for almost two months in protest of new rules for the Supreme Court that Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government is rushing into law.
Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orbán’s regime is a case in point.
Because it’s a blend of political influences the transition it is facing has, inevitably, had an existential effect on the Democratic Alliance.
Populists didn’t do well enough in the EU’s recent elections to destroy Europe from within. But with far-right and far-left parties winning new seats, consensus on key issues looks ever less likely.
The proudly illiberal leader is forging new alliances ahead of European elections next year.
The transatlantic relationship can no longer be an engine of global democracy thanks to Donald Trump. So the EU must rethink its partnerships with other democratic powers.
It is contagious populist ideology more than financial contagion that should scare us right now.
Vladimir Putin’s recent re-election was bad news for democracy in Russia. And it’s a major loss in the struggle for liberalism, as anti-democratic leaders are assuming power across the globe.
A third landslide victory leaves the right-wing leader on a collision course with Europe.
This Sunday Hungarians vote whether to return prime minister Viktor Orbán to office. The choice they make will affect the future of their country, and Europe.
Reforms to the judiciary are a threat to democracy – and that affects us all.
Is it really time to eulogise democracy, or are we rather on the cusp of a new phase in its long and varied life?
Poland and Hungary have recently clashed with Brussels over democratic freedoms, but economic drivers are at play, too.
Several post-communist member states are moving further and further away from European Union norms.
Politicians are promising to advance their countries’ international positions through nationalist militarisation and celebration of virile men.
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Professor of comparitive politics, Georgetown University; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Professor of Politics, University of Westminster
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Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Classics, University at Buffalo
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Géopoliticien, Sciences Po
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Assistant professorial lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Politics, University of Liverpool
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Reader In Communications Media & Cultural Studies, Brunel University of London
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Senator Joseph Clark Research Professor on Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University
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Chair, Human Rights Program, Associate Professor, Central European University
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Senior Lecturer, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
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Lecturer/ Consultant in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds
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