In: Politics

Democratic Recession

The liberal world order finds itself increasingly under attack. Nationalism, populism, authoritarianism and tribal politics, long thought to be relics of the past, are experiencing a massive comeback. These summaries will help you make sense of this worrying trend.

Summaries

Book

How Civil Wars Start
And How to Stop Them
Barbara F. Walter
Crown, 2022
Book

A World after Liberalism
Philosophers of the Radical Right
Matthew Rose
Yale UP, 2021
9 Book

The Digital Republic
On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
Jamie Susskind
Pegasus Books, 2022
8 Book

Spin Dictators
The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
Princeton UP, 2022
9 Article

Why Democracy Stalled in the Middle East
Economic Despair and the Triumph of the China Model
Amaney A. Jamal and Michael Robbins
Foreign Affairs, 2022
9 Video

The Great Delusion with Professor John Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer
The Bush School of Government & Public Service, 2018
Book

The Revenge of Power
How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
Moisés Naím
St. Martin’s Press, 2022
8 Report

The Global State of Democracy 2021
Building Resilience in a Pandemic Era
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
IDEA, 2021
7 Report

The Macroeconomic Impact of Social Unrest
Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov et al.
IMF, 2021
7 Article

The Age of Zombie Democracies
Why Autocrats Are Abandoning Even the Pretense of Democratic Rituals
Kenneth Roth
Foreign Affairs, 2021
Book

Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
Riverhead, 2020
Book

Mistrust
Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Ethan Zuckerman
W.W. Norton, 2021