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Derek Mitchell, President of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) weighs in on the Russian attack on Ukraine and how it relates to Ukrainian and global democratic aspirations. NDI has worked in Kyiv since 1992, witnessing “how Russia has used Ukraine as a testing ground for its attacks on democracy elsewhere”, concluding that Ukraine is therefore … Continued
Image credit: Canva. Annika Silva-Leander for International Women’s Day writes about how democracies in practice are better at upholding gender equality than non-democracies and analyses statements and commitments made at the Summit for Democracy according to how prominently gender equality was featured. Political gender equality is crucial for democracy, as everyone must have an equal … Continued
Image courtesy of the Global Democracy Coalition (www.globaldemocracycoalition.org) By partner organizations in the Global Democracy Coalition and others in solidarity with Ukraine and its people. Read the statement here on the International IDEA website. We are again witnessing just how dangerous autocrats and their regimes can be. The Kremlin has for decades trampled on the rights and freedoms of … Continued
On 3 March 2022, Freedom House published a letter signed by a number of former US Ambassadors, academics, experts and other stakeholders urging President Biden to act on the worsening situation for democracy in Tunisia. After President Kaïs Saïed’s power grab on 25 July 2021, Tunisia has seen one-man rule effectively imposed, with a recent … Continued
John Davenport writes in the Conversation about opportunities for democratic alliances to respond to the new challenges to democracy and human rights in the 21st century. He draws from his research, which indicates that “new alliances may be needed to replace, or at least expand and support, the familiar ones built to keep global peace … Continued
Hanna Hopko and Laura Thornton in the Hill make the case for the importance of Ukraine for democracy globally and the fight against authoritarianism. The authors argue that, “if the entire point of the Summit for Democracy is to protect democracy, Ukraine should be the rallying cry to make good on the commitment.” Ukrainian democracy … Continued
Laura Thornton and Annika Silva-Leander consider in GMFUS’ Alliance for Securing Democracy the little visible action on commitments after the Summit. Against the backdrop of rising global authoritarianism, the Summit must not be an empty initiative of words with no action or follow-up. The authors believe that the Summit “matters if the momentum created by … Continued
Norman Eisen, Mario Picon, Robin J. Lewis, Renzo Falla and Lilly Blumenthal published on the Brookings Institution website an initial reaction to the recently-published Commitments for the Summit. The authors observed significant variation in the commitments made. When considering the written commitments in terms of where governments fall in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index … Continued
With the Summit’s objective to set forth an affirmative agenda to reinvigorate democracy and tackle its challenges through collective action, countries were encouraged to voluntarily submit written commitments in the weeks following the Summit. The Summit was framed around the three themes of defending against authoritarianism, addressing and fighting corruption, and promoting respect for human … Continued
Forum 2000 sat down with Charles Edel, the Australia Chair and a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to discuss the Summit and its associated launched initiatives. Main takeaways included: After the image of American democracy was tarnished during the Trump presidency, under the leadership of President Biden, it is now … Continued
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