Hélène Landemore on Democracy without Elections
The origin of the third wave of democratization is commonly dated to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974. The fall of the Soviet Union accelerated this process until about 2005 when the pace ...
22 Dec 202052min
Glenn Tiffert on the Manipulation of Academia by Foreign Governments
This week America discovered some startling news. Russians hacked into the email systems of the Commerce and Treasury Departments. The information age has brought about a new era of intelligence and e...
15 Dec 202048min
Carolyn Hendriks, Selen Ercan and John Boswell on Mending Democracy
There is a book that was written in 1989 called Democracy and its Critics. The renowned Robert Dahl is the author. In the book, he answers objections to critiques of democracy through a series of dial...
8 Dec 20201h 4min
Mareike Ohlberg on the Global Influence of the Chinese Communist Party
Last October Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey shook the sports world with a tweet. It said, “Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.” Pretty simple. Not controversial…. at least, not controversial in t...
1 Dec 202048min
Xiaoyu Pu on China's Global Identities
China is a nation of contradictions. It is a developing economy that is an economic powerhouse. It is a rising power that is already a great power. It is a communist state that has embraced capitalism...
23 Nov 202057min
G. John Ikenberry on Liberal Internationalism
Democracy is often imagined at its purest at a micro level. Town hall meetings are sometimes imagined as a simpler form of democratic governance, so international relations can feel as though it is mi...
16 Nov 202054min
Amy Erica Smith on Politics and Religion in Brazil
Political Scientist Seymour Martin Lipset wrote, “A person who knows only one country doesn't know any country because you're not sensitized to what is unique, what is different, what is special about...
9 Nov 202056min
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe on the Presidency
Millions of Americans are voting for the President of the United States. Some of you will hear this episode before the election is over. Others will likely listen after the election is over. I hope my...
2 Nov 202051min
