Initiated by Jean-Paul Gagnon, this series addresses the long overdue question: What does democracy mean in a global context? The question has given rise to a highly exciting and relevant debate. Most ...
New voices are joining the national debate over academic freedom on college campuses, and that’s good for democracy. What do academic freedom and democracy have in common? Plenty, and that’s why it’s ...
Democracies are increasingly under siege. Beyond direct external (e.g., warfare) and internal (e.g., populism, extremism) threats to democratic nations, multiple democracy-weakening factors are ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alyssa Farah Griffin on "The View" (ABC) A new Quinnipiac poll released this week found that more than half of Americans think ...
Recent claims by Chinese leader Xi Jinping that China has its own brand of "democracy" are a bid to water down the concept, and minimize its ideological power against the authoritarian Chinese ...
Promotion of democracy and human rights are often linked or even viewed as identical aims. In the U.S. State Department, the office dealing with this subject area is called the Bureau of Democracy, ...
Vanderbilt University may submit up to three concept papers to the Mellon Foundation Higher Learning Program: 2024 Call for Concepts. In the interest of maintaining a grant-making portfolio that ...
The current issue of The Atlantic is organized around the question, “Is Democracy Dying?” Contributors make a case for “yes” around the world. Anne Applebaum, a Washington Post columnist living in ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) incessantly promotes “democracy with Chinese characteristics.” State-run Chinese media frequently parrot Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s diplomatic goals of “mutual ...
Established in 1950, the University Lecture each year spotlights the outstanding and thought-provoking research and creative work of a Boston University faculty member to the BU community and the ...
Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană addressed Russia’s war on Ukraine and the future of NATO at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit on Friday (10 June 2022). Previewing the Alliance’s next Strategic ...