Dennis, a diplomat turned public intellectual, had just published an article in a leading political science journal titled ...

Americans aren’t used to having to defend democracy. It’s just been a given for so long. After all, it’s the country’s 249th ...

We must change the discussion and argument. It is not the United States versus Venezuela, Iran versus Israel, or Nicaragua ...

The global chorus of Western democracy promoters assumes that liberal democracy is the universal standard for freedom and progress. But can liberal democracy truly withstand the challenge posed by ...

Research by Harvard Kennedy School scholar Pippa Norris suggests that both autocracies and countries undergoing democratic ...

This is not to equate Trump with the founders in character or intellect. Rather, it is to acknowledge that they were not enlightened democrats. They were revolutionaries.

When Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and restored liberal democracy, the small Baltic country ...

Annual change in V-Dem liberal democracy index since 2008: -0.0100 per year Current regime classification: Electoral autocracy (since 2007) Recent episodes of unrest: Battle in Dhaka involving ...