Between Russia and China: Anja Mihr on Central Asia
Russia... will lose ground here in the region over the next decade and China will fill it, because the Europeans are not doing it. The United States is not doing it. Iran is not doing it and Turkey ca...
22 Mar 202252min
Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power
But what we have now is something that has not been sufficiently discussed, sufficiently understood, which is a criminalized state of which Russia is an example, in the Balkans we have some examples, ...
15 Mar 202236min
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili on Afghanistan, Local Institutions, and Self-Governance
It wasn't because Afghan social norms don’t support democracy. They do. And Afghans understood darn well what they were supposed to have. But they never even got the minimum of what they were promised...
8 Mar 202247min
Sarah Repucci from Freedom House with an Update on Freedom in the World
You can't protect basic human rights if you don't have democracy. If you're going to protect basic human rights, you need to have things like credible institutions that hold abusers to account. You ne...
1 Mar 202240min
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul Sniderman on the Inclusion and Respect of Muslim Minorities
If you're actually a real person and you're living your life and you're going into stores and you're riding on a bus or your kids are going to school, what matters is that you be treated with respect....
22 Feb 202245min
Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane on the Decline of Indian Democracy
You treat votes as equal. My vote is equal to your vote. But the state treats our bodies as unequal. That logically makes no sense and it is farcical to call it a democracy in the first place. Forget ...
15 Feb 202253min
Lisa Disch on Representation, Constituencies, and Political Leadership
The tension in what we want from democratic representation is that we want control over our representatives and we want creativity from them. If we control them, they are delegates. They're not repres...
8 Feb 202249min
Joseph Fishkin on the Constitution, American History, and Economic Inequality
For many Americans, for the first many generations really up through the mid 20th century, the constitutional order seemed to rest on and depend on an economic order in which people had enough economi...
1 Feb 202248min
