The Road to Digital Unfreedom
About the event Once hailed as a great force for human empowerment and liberation, social media—and the various related digital tools that enable people to search for, access, accumulate, and process information—have rapidly come...
A Crisis of Legitimacy in the Islamic Republic of Iran Forty Years After the Revolution
about the event February 11, 2019, marked the 40th anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the establishment of a repressive theocratic regime. Today, much of the discourse on Iran focuses on sanctions,...
The Roots of Illiberalism in Hungary and Central Europe
About the event After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hungary and Poland were heralded as among the most successful cases of liberal reform of the former socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Yet two and a half decades later, authoritarian...
The Signs of Democratic Deconsolidation
featuring Yascha Mounk Lecturer, Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow, Transatlantic Academy with comments by Larry Diamond Senior Fellow,...
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