Martin Conway Believes "Democracy Owes its Durability Not to its Principles but to its Flexibility." Democracy in Western Europe from 1945 to 1968
Where you and I and, I think, many others start from an assumption that somehow there is a thing called democracy and we sort of know what it is. But the diversity within democracy is far larger than ...
5 Okt 202153min
Donald Horowitz on the Formation of Democratic Constitutions
The most beautiful thing that happened in Indonesia, by the way, which was a polarized society along religious lines more than anything else, was that by the end of the proceedings, everybody knew wha...
28 Sep 202149min
Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley on the Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico
Up to today, since the Mexican government deployed the military in 2006 up to the present, Mexico has experienced close to 200,000 battle deaths. That's roughly the number of battle deaths that took p...
21 Sep 202153min
Rana Siu Inboden on China and the International Human Rights Regime
Chinese participation in the human rights regime probably was never really intended to alter human rights so much in China that it would jeopardize the Chinese Communist Party’s hold on power. I think...
14 Sep 202149min
Timothy Frye Says Putin is a Weak Strongman
Putin in the past could claim to have won at least an honest plurality, if not an honest majority of votes given his approval. However, in the upcoming election this fall, in September, it looks like ...
7 Sep 202148min
Kathryn Stoner on Russia's Economy, Politics, and Foreign Policy
Biden's current policy is, you know, we want Putin to calm down, be stable for awhile and turn our focus to restraining China. I don't think that's going to happen. That's not in his interest to do th...
31 Aug 202138min
Karen Greenberg on the War on Terror, Donald Trump, and American Democracy
It was an era in which lawmakers and office holders learned that imprecision could actually work to their benefit to allow them to do what they wanted to because there was unclear codification in the ...
24 Aug 202144min
Charles Kupchan on America's Tradition of Isolationism
Beginning in the 1990s, and then really picking up after 9/11, the United States overreached ideologically by thinking it could turn Iraq and Afghanistan into Ohio. It overreached economically by thro...
17 Aug 202150min
