https://warontherocks.com/2014/12/warchives-torture-and-the-self-correction-of-democracies/
As Americans debate the Senate torture report, it may be of some comfort to remember that we are not the only democracy to grapple with such issues in
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https://carnegieendowment.org/putin-has-destroyed-the-liberal-international-order-but-liberal-democracies-are-destroying-themselves
But regardless of what he does, authoritarian leaders around the globe will continue to find creative ways to subjugate their citizens and pillage their...
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https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/funding-offer/transformational-knowledge-democracies-under-change-transdisciplinary-perspectives
The programme addresses transdisciplinary teams of researchers from the humanities, cultural or social sciences and partners outside of academia who jointly...
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https://energy-cities.eu/the-fragile-foundations-of-our-democracies/
Dec 2, 2025 - I could have written about the latest chapter in the European budget saga. You will find it below… or now, let me simply say this: […]
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https://odysee.com/@ukcolumn:9/Who-do-you-think-you-are-philipp-kruse:4
View on Odysee: Philipp Kruse - WHO: Unprecedented Threat to Health and Democracies
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https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/democracies-tend-to-have-lower-levels-of-corruption
What difference does it make when people can choose their leaders? One area where the right to vote for political leaders may matter is corruption.
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https://lab.cccb.org/en/ageing-democracies/
Apr 9, 2020 - Political Participation and Cultural Values among the Elderly in Europe
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/2/12/pompeo-putin-threatening-democracies-worldwide
On Central Europe tour, top US diplomat says Moscow and Beijing seeking to erode sovereignty, freedom in the region.
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https://thraets.org/community-fakes-a-crowdsourcing-platform-to-combat-ai-generated-deepfakes-in-fragile-democracies/
Nov 19, 2024 - As the world moves into the era of artificial intelligence, the rise of deepfakes and AI-generated media poses a significant threat to the integrity of
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https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/international-geneva/ire-democracies-copying-russias-repressive-playbook/90156926
Oct 13, 2025 - On our Inside Geneva podcast this week, we ask: are other countries following Russia’s lead in cracking down on freedom of expression?
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https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/events/transformational-knowledge-about-democracies-transition-project-presentation-cooperation-projects
The recipients of funding for cooperation projects from ‘Transformation Knowledge about Democracies in Transition’ will meet in Hanover from 1 to 3...
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https://capitalofdemocracy.barcelona/conferences/barcamp?locale=en
A close meeting in the form of workshops or participatory events, where the content is provided by the participants themselves, organised by the Konrad...
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https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/information-wars/international-public-media-face-uncertain-future-in-democracies/89207323
Jun 2, 2025 - More and more Western governments are paring down their funding for international public media, even as authoritarian regimes beef theirs up.
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/02/world/democracies-learning-to-goose-step/
We often assume that the gravest threats to democracy are wars, coups or other dramatic crises. But democratic breakdown does not require a sudden shock.
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https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/36317/autocracies-outnumber-democracies-for-the-first-time-in-20-years-v-dem/
May 27, 2025 - The 2025 V-Dem report finds that 45 countries are affected by autocratization and 19 are in episodes of democratization.
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https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/trudeau-says-china-playing-democracies-against-each-other/article
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said Western democracies must stand together against a China he says has been "playing us off each other."
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https://www.ru.nl/en/education/masters/comparative-politics-democracies-and-autocracies/what-can-you-do-with-a-masters-in-comparative-politics-democracies-and-autocracies
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https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/nazi-germany-underscores-danger-of-creeping-authoritarian-thinking-by-kaushik-basu-2025-11
Kaushik Basu highlights the subtle ways social pressures cause people to accept constraints they once rejected.
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https://www.queensu.ca/csdd/publications/working-papers/archive/immigration-minorities-multiculturalism
The Immigration, Minorities, and Multiculturalism in Democracies Working Paper Series was delivered in 2007 as part of the Ethnicity and Democratic Governance...
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