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Democracy and Its Enemies

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  1. chellaney179_MUNIR UZ ZAMANAFP via Getty Images_bangladeshmilitary Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images
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    The West’s Stealthy Assault on Democracy

    Brahma Chellaney decries leading powers' tacit acceptance of military regimes masked by civilian façades.
  2. acemoglu77_Victor J. Blue-PoolGetty Images Victor J. Blue-Pool/Getty Images
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    The Trump Threat to Democracy Has Only Grown

    Daron Acemoglu sees five reasons to believe that the former president would do far more damage if given another term.
  3. op_mjones2_KeystoneGetty Images_hitler Keystone/Getty Images
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    How Fascism Happens

    Mark Jones revisits Hitler's rise to power now that political violence and attacks on democracy are intensifying.
  4. nowrojee3_BENSON IBEABUCHIAFP via Getty Images_nigeriaprotests Benson Ibeabuchi/AFP via Getty Images
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    A New Political “Youthquake”

    Binaifer Nowrojee identifies common features characterizing the recent wave of Gen-Z political activism in Asia and Africa.
  5. drchowdhury2_SANJAY KANOJIAAFP via Getty Images_bulldozer justice SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP via Getty Images
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    Nothing Has Changed in India

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury rejects the widely held belief that the country has stepped “back from the brink” of authoritarian chauvinism.
  6. basu105_Zabed Hasnain ChowdhuryNurPhoto via Getty Images_bangladeshprotests Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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    Bangladesh’s Stand Against Authoritarianism

    Kaushik Basu urges interim leaders to rebuild political institutions and stabilize the economy before calling elections.
  7. acemoglu49_Drew AngererGetty Images_capitol partisan divide Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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    Is Democracy Really in Retreat?

    Helmut K. Anheier, et al. trace the contours of the global ideological battle between liberalism and the “autocratic sufficiency thesis.”
  8. varoufakis118_BENJAMIN CREMELAFP via Getty Images_fascism BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images
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    The Road from Fascism

    Yanis Varoufakis highlights four lessons from the recent anti-immigrant riots in the United Kingdom.
  9. mueller54_CHRISTIAN MONTERROSAAFP via Getty Images_trump CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AFP via Getty Images
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    Populism’s Lost Summer

    Jan-Werner Mueller explains how to defeat far-right, anti-democratic parties in the public square and at the ballot box.
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    The High Cost of the Netherlands’ Mpox Vaccine Hoarding

    Gordon Brown condemns European populists’ failure to heed the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  2. charap3_ TATYANA MAKEYEVAAFP via Getty Images)_kursk TATYANA MAKEYEVA/AFP via Getty Images)
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    How to Make the Most of the Kursk Gambit

    Samuel Charap & Charles A. Kupchan think Ukraine and its partners have a big opportunity to start working toward a negotiated end to the war.
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    The US Election Will Overturn Europe’s Strategic Status Quo

    Mark Leonard worries that Europeans are unprepared for whoever will succeed US President Joe Biden.
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    The Water-Security Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al.

    Increasingly severe water shortages represent a human-made crisis that can be resolved through human interventions. The situation demands new thinking about the economics of this critical resource and how to manage it through mission-oriented strategies that span all levels of governance.

     call attention to a global problem that demands far more attention from policymakers at all levels.
  5. reyna1_Martin Schuttpicture alliance via Getty Images_ev green deal Martin Schutt/picture alliance via Getty Images
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    The European Green Deal Is Already Benefiting Consumers

    Agustín Reyna rejects the misguided notion that voters are indifferent to environmental concerns.
  6. bremmer34_Anna MoneymakerGetty Images_harrissouthkorea Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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    What Is Kamala Harris’s Foreign Policy?

    Ian Bremmer

    Although Kamala Harris is largely aligned with Joe Biden on many global and strategic issues, her unique worldview promises a distinct form of leadership on the international stage. Not only would US foreign policy shift under a Harris administration; it could change in highly consequential ways.

     considers how the Democratic presidential nominees' views compare to Joe Biden's.
  7. anheier25_JOHN MACDOUGALLAFP via Getty Images_afd JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images
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    Will the German Center Hold?

    Helmut K. Anheier considers what is driving support for extremist parties in the country’s eastern states.
  8. delong263_MEGAN JELINGERAFP via Getty Images_USindustrysteel Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images
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    America Has No Alternative to Industrial Policy

    J. Bradford DeLong thinks new threats to economic security outweigh the reasons for opposing government-led development.
  9. nye261_Kevin DietschGetty Images_us election Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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    US Foreign Policy in 2025

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. compares the two presidential candidates’ attitudes and positions on major global issues.

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