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Simon Shuster on Zelensky in War and Peace
23 januari 2024 · 49 min
I think his heart is in the right place. I've talked to him about these things. He's very sensitive to the judgment of history. He knows that. Ukraine has been fighting since long before he became president to be an independent sovereign democracy with freedom of speech. Lees meer
Simon Shuster
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Simon Shuster is a staff writer for Time magazine who covers politics in Ukraine and Russia. His new book is called The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:20
The Early Zelensky - 3:30
Wartime President - 19:16
Politics in Wartime Ukraine - 33:59
Democracy in Ukraine - 36:18
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The Showman: Inside the Invasion that Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
"Where Zelensky Comes From" by Simon Shuster in Time
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Serhii Plokhy on the Russo-Ukrainian War
Olga Onuch and Henry Hale Describe the Zelensky Effect
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Marcela Rios Tobar on the Failed Constitutional Process in Chile
16 januari 2024 · 50 min
When politics has to solve the problems that it has caused, how can politics do that? Lees meer
Marcela Rios Tobar
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Marcela Rios Tobar is the Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at International IDEA. From March 2022 until January 2023 she served as the Minister of Justice and Human Rights in Chile under Gabriel Boric.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:20
Background - 3:40
The Draft Constitutions - 18:04
Lost Opportunity? 35:11
Exceptional or Harbinger - 46:55
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Jennifer Piscopo on the Constitutional Chaos in Chile
Aldo Madariaga on Neoliberalism, Democratic Deficits, and Chile
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Kurt Weyland on the Resilience of Democracy
9 januari 2024 · 53 min
Populist leaders want polarization. They start polarization. They confront. Lees meer
Kurt Weyland
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Kurt Weyland is the Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts. He has written many books. His most recent is Democracy's Resilience to Populism's Threat: Countering Global Alarmism. He has also authored the article "Why Democracy Survives Populism" in the Journal of Democracy.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:45
Democratic Breakdown in Peru - 2:56
The Populist Threat - 18:46
Institutional Strength - 25:19
Countering Global Alarmism - 46:19
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"Why Democracy Survives Populism" by Kurt Weyland in Journal of Democracy
Democracy's Resilience to Populism's Threat: Countering Global Alarmism by Kurt Weyland
Assault on Democracy: Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism During the Interwar Years by Kurt Weyland
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Kurt Weyland Distinguishes Between Fascism and Authoritarianism
Jason Brownlee Believes We Underestimate Democratic Resilience
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Is a New Jim Crow Emerging in India? Ashutosh Varshney Gives a Warning
2 januari 2024 · 42 min
That's the point here. It's not there yet. But if electorally the BJP keeps winning, this is a prospect that must be faced. Lees meer
Ashutosh Varshney
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Ashutosh Varshney is the Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences at Brown University. He is the author of many books and papers on India and its politics. His most recent article (coauthored with Connor Staggs), published in Journal of Democracy, is "Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow."
Key Highlights
Introduction - 1:31
Hindu Nationalism - 3:48
Jim Crow and India - 12:08
Vigilantism - 23:53
Solutions - 34:46
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"Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow" by Ashutosh Varshney and Connor Staggs in Journal of Democracy
"India’s Democracy at 70: Growth, Inequality, and Nationalism" by Ashutosh Varshney in Journal of Democracy
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Ashutosh Varshney on India. Democracy in Hard Places
Is India Still a Democracy? Rahul Verma Emphatically Says Yes
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Does Democracy Rely on a Civic Bargain? Josiah Ober Makes the Case
26 december 2023 · 51 min
What we really need to do is recommit to the idea that this is difficult, it is valuable, and in order to keep this valuable, difficult thing going, we need to basically pay the cost of educating ourselves, educating the next generation, the background knowledge and skills that citizens need if they are to continue to govern themselves... Lees meer
Josiah Ober
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Josiah Ober is a Professor of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the coauthor, along with Brook Manville, of The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:49
What is Democracy? 3:15
Conditions and Constraints - 20:17
Classical Democracy - 24:26
Future of Democracy - 39:21
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The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives by Brook Manville and Josiah Ober
Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice by Josiah Ober
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How Can Democracy Survive in an Age of Discontent? Rachel Navarre and Matthew Rhodes-Purdy on Populism and Political Extremism
Marc Plattner Has Quite a Bit to Say About Democracy
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Is Islamism Democratic? Sebnem Gumuscu on Islamist Parties in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey
19 december 2023 · 43 min
If these Islamist organizations want to stay in these contexts and keep playing the democratic game, they need to commit to the democratic game in the longer run. Lees meer
Sebnem Gumuscu
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Sebnem Gumuscu is an associate professor of political science at Middlebury College and the author of Democracy or Authoritarianism: Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:31
What is Islamism - 2:48
Liberal and Electoralists - 19:23
Role of Elites - 35:16
Islamism in the Long Run - 37:09
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Democracy or Authoritarianism: Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia by Sebnem Gumuscu
"How Erdoğan’s Populism Won Again'" by Sebnem Gumuscu and Berk Esen
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Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu on the Disappointing Elections in Turkey… or How Democratic (or Autocratic) is Turkey Really?
Shadi Hamid on Democracy, Liberalism, and the Middle East
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Can America Fight Back Against the Authoritarian Economic Statecraft of China? Bethany Allen Believes We Can
12 december 2023 · 52 min
In the past 26 years, to this day, there has not been one major Hollywood production that has gone against a major Chinese Communist Party red line. Not one. Twenty-six years of silence. Lees meer
Bethany Allen
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Bethany Allen is the China reporter at Axios and the author of Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:48
The Authoritarian Economic Statecraft of China - 3:32
Trump Administration and China Policy - 22:24
Another Cold War - 34:26
American Options for Response - 48:16
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Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World by Bethany Allen
"Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist 'to comply with local law'" by Bethany Allen
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Hal Brands Thinks China is a Declining Power… Here’s Why that’s a Problem
Josh Chin on China’s Surveillance State
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Does Democracy Die in Darkness? Katlyn Carter on Transparency and Secrecy in Early Representative Governments
5 december 2023 · 47 min
If we're thinking about democracy as something broader that is producing equality, justice or these kind of things, often those policies that we might describe as democratic policies can emerge from processes that are undemocratic. I think that's uncomfortable for us to think about. Lees meer
Katlyn Carter
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Katlyn Carter is an assistant professor of history at Notre Dame University. She is the author of Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:41
The Birth of Republics - 3:10
Publicity - 19:23
Spectacle - 26:43
Representation - 35:43
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Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions by Katlyn Carter
Katlyn Carter on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
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Heather Cox Richardson on History, Conservatism, and the Awakening of American Democracy
Daniel Ziblatt on American Democracy, the Republican Party, and the Tyranny of the Minority
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How Can Democracy Survive in an Age of Discontent? Rachel Navarre and Matthew Rhodes-Purdy on Populism and Political Extremism
28 november 2023 · 46 min
I think populism is rather a specific form of discontent. Discontent is the umbrella term. It's this vague sense that the way things are being done is not working. That democracy is not effective. That it's not serving my interests. Lees meer
Matthew Rhodes-Purdy
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Rachel Navarre is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Master of Public Administration Program at Bridgewater State University. Matthew Rhodes-Purdy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University. They are the coauthors (along with Stephen Utych) of The Age of Discontent: Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:53
What is Discontent - 3:21
Crisis and Discontent - 13:34
Rise of Populism - 25:13
An End to Neoliberalism? - 39:20
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The Age of Discontent: Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies by Matthew Rhodes-Purdy, Rachel Navarre, and Stephen Utych
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Daniel Ziblatt on American Democracy, the Republican Party, and the Tyranny of the Minority
Marc Plattner Has Quite a Bit to Say About Democracy
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Rachel Schwartz on How Guatemala Rose Up Against Democratic Backsliding
21 november 2023 · 45 min
This was an election that was meant to cement authoritarian rule and it became a democratic breakthrough. Lees meer
Rachel Schwartz
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Rachel Schwartz is an assistant professor of international and area studies at the University of Oklahoma. Recently, she cowrote an article with Anita Isaacs for the Journal of Democracy called, “How Guatemala Defied the Odds." She also authored a book earlier this year called Undermining the State from Within: The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:33
The 2023 Election - 2:46
A Weak State - 17:18
Democratic Backsliding - 30:53
Rejuvenating Democracy - 39:39
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Undermining the State from Within: The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America by Rachel Schwartz
"How Guatemala Defied the Odds" in Journal of Democracy by Rachel Schwartz
"Guatemala: Resisting Democratic Backsliding in the Least Likely of Places?" by Rachel Schwartz
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Wendy Hunter on Lula, Bolsonaro, January 8th and Democracy in Brazil
Jennifer Piscopo on the Constitutional Chaos in Chile
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Who is Alexey Navalny? David Herszenhorn Paints a Picture
14 november 2023 · 59 min
It's impossible not to admire somebody who is willing to stand up for their country, for freedom and democracy, for the idea that Russians should be able to chart their own future and have a say in what their government looks like. Lees meer
David Herszenhorn
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David Herszenhorn is the Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe editor at The Washington Post and was a correspondent for Politico Europe and The New York Times. He is the author The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:44
Navalny as a Political Figure - 3:13
Navalny and the State - 21:26
Navalny and Russian Repression - 34:41
Politician or Dissident? 42:45
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The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner by David Herszenhorn
"Alexey Navalny Never Wanted to Be a Dissident" in Politico by David Herszenhorn
"For Putin foe Alexey Navalny, Ukraine has long been a volatile issue" in The Washington Post by David Herszenhorn
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Olga Onuch and Henry Hale Describe the Zelensky Effect
Michael McFaul and Robert Person on Putin, Russia, and the War in Ukraine
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Leadership is Not a Formula Says Moshik Temkin
7 november 2023 · 51 min
Leadership is not a formula. It's not something that happens in a vacuum. It's not just something that you can declare about yourself. Lees meer
Moshik Temkin
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Moshik Temkin is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership and History at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, and a fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His most recent book is Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:45
What is Leadership? 3:12
Powerless Leadership - 11:58
Ethics of Leadership - 24:10
Ordinary Leadership - 40:16
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Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X by Moshik Temkin
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Larry Bartels Says Democracy Erodes from the Top
Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power
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Patricia Evangelista Says The Philippines is an Example of What Happens When Autocrats and Dictators Rise and We Let Them
31 oktober 2023 · 48 min
For people like me or just your ordinary Joes who speak of democracy, I thought it meant freedom. I thought it meant a free press. I thought it meant that people would not die on the streets. Lees meer
Patricia Evangelista
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Patricia Evangelista is a trauma journalist and former investigative reporter for the Philippine news company Rappler. She has received the Kate Webb Prize for exceptional journalism in dangerous conditions. Recently, she authored the book Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:46
The Philippines and Duterte - 2:37
The Drug War - 11:04
Vigilantes and Police - 25:26
Democracy in the Philippines - 34:11
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista
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Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power
Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley on the Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico
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Cenk Uygur is Running an Unorthodox Campaign for President
24 oktober 2023 · 56 min
You could take that populism and turn it negative, which often happens... But populism could also be a wonderful thing where you're actually appealing to what the voters want instead of what the powerful want. Lees meer
Cenk Uygur
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Cenk Uygur is a host of the show The Young Turks and the founder, president, and CEO of its parent company TYT. He is a Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States and the author of Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:42
Cenk's Presidential Campaign - 2:49
Progressive Issues - 26:56
Populism - 40:28
Polarization - 49:17
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Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It by Cenk Uygur
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Heather Cox Richardson on History, Conservatism, and the Awakening of American Democracy
Daniel Ziblatt on American Democracy, the Republican Party, and the Tyranny of the Minority
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Shadi Hamid on Democracy, Liberalism, and the Middle East
17 oktober 2023 · 50 min
Autocracy as we understand it today is a modern creation. I think there we see very few successful examples of modern autocracies that are able to sustain themselves. Lees meer
Shadi Hamid
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Shadi Hamid is a columnist and member of the Editorial Board at The Washington Post. He is also a research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary and the co-host of the podcast Wisdom of Crowds. His most recent book is The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:32
The Problem of Democracy - 2:25
Islamism - 5:51
Turkey - 22:47
Autocratic Rulers - 32:20
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The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea by Shadi Hamid
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Robert Kaplan on the Politics of the Past and Future of the Greater Middle East
Steven Simon on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East including Iran and the Wars in Iraq
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Branko Milanovic on Different Visions of Inequality
10 oktober 2023 · 46 min
Writing a book like that makes you really think brutally about the past. It makes you really think about the current time and also how the future would look at you. Lees meer
Branko Milanovic
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Branko Milanovic is a Research Professor at the City University of New York and a Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. He served as the lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years. His most recent book is Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:31
Why Economic Inequality - 2:53
Ideas Before 1820 - 13:26
Marx and Socialism - 19:52
Piketty and Modern Thought - 40:17
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Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanovic
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Thomas Piketty on Equality
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on the Plutocratic Populism of the Republican Party
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Yascha Mounk Warns Against a Misguided New Ideology
3 oktober 2023 · 50 min
I really do think that what we've witnessed over the last decades is the emergence of a new ideology that is meaningfully distinct... I think it really is meaningfully distinct from other forms of what is meant to be left wing in the past from other ideological traditions. Lees meer
Yascha Mounk
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Yascha Mounk is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. He’s a writer for The Atlantic, founder of the online magazine Persuassion, and host of the podcast The Good Fight. He is the author of The People vs Democracy, The Great Experiment, and The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:51
Values and Beliefs - 3:15
Higher Education - 13:56
Identity - 22:34
Differences from Marxism - 37:21
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The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk
The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work by Yascha Mounk
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It by Yascha Mounk
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Yascha Mounk on the Great Experiment of Diverse Democracies
Francis Fukuyama Responds to Liberalism’s Discontents
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Heather Cox Richardson on History, Conservatism, and the Awakening of American Democracy
26 september 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
It would be a lovely thing if before I die, I get to see a younger generation reclaim democracy and rebuild it in a new, more expansive way. Lees meer
Heather Cox Richardson
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Heather Cox Richardson is a Professor of History at Boston College. Her daily newsletter Letters from an American is read by millions. She has a new book out as of today called Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:46
Patriotism and Conservatism - 3:15
The Liberal Consensus - 14:42
Awakening Democracy - 39:07
Trump - 51:41
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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson
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Daniel Ziblatt on American Democracy, the Republican Party, and the Tyranny of the Minority
Joseph Fishkin on the Constitution, American History, and Economic Inequality
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Daniel Ziblatt on American Democracy, the Republican Party, and the Tyranny of the Minority
19 september 2023 · 47 min
I think one of the greatest barriers to reform is thinking that reform is impossible. Lees meer
Daniel Ziblatt
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Daniel Ziblatt is the Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and director of the Transformations of Democracy group at Berlin's Social Science Center. He is the coauthor with Steven Levitsky of How Democracies Dieand a new book The Tyranny of the Minority and the author of Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:38
American Democracy - 3:25
A Multi-Racial Democracy - 16:36
Conservatism and Democracy - 22:34
The Republican Party and Authoritarianism - 35:37
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Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy by Daniel Ziblatt
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Is Reunification Still Possible? Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo on Korea
12 september 2023 · 55 min
North Korea is stable up until the day it's not... The day that it collapses, there'll be a lot of people out there who will say this was inevitable. Lees meer
Victor Cha
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Victor Cha is a professor of government at Georgetown University and holds the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is a former director for Asian Affairs at the White House National Security Council. Ramon Pacheco Pardo is a professor of international relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at Free University of Brussels. They are the authors of Korea: A New History of South and North.
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Introduction - 0:45
Korea as a People and a Place - 2:25
Korean War and its Aftermath - 11:44
Democracy - 23:23
Is Reconciliation Possible? - 40:55
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Korea: A New History of South and North by Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo
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Deng Xiaoping is Not Who You Think He is. Joseph Torigian on Leadership Transitions in China and the Soviet Union
Hal Brands Thinks China is a Declining Power… Here’s Why that’s a Problem
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Deng Xiaoping is Not Who You Think He is. Joseph Torigian on Leadership Transitions in China and the Soviet Unio
5 september 2023 · 46 min
People still think of Chinese history as this two-line struggle because that's the story the Chinese tell. But everything from Mao Zedong's relationship to Liu Shaoqi to anything that happened during the 1980s, it was not a problem of competing policy platforms. It was a problem of getting the politics of your relationship with the top leader right when it was hard to guess what they were thinking and they were changing their mind and they were suspicious of you. Lees meer
Joseph Torigian
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Joseph Torigian is a Research Fellow at the Harvard History Lab. Previously he was an assistant professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. He is the author of Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:48
Deng Xiaoping and Hua Guofeng - 2:33
Khrushchev Consolidates Power - 16:16
Will History Repeat? - 30:11
Connections to Contemporary China - 38:31
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Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao by Joseph Torigian
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Robert Kaplan on the Politics of the Past and Future of the Greater Middle East
29 augustus 2023 · 51 min
Great developments by nature are not linear. Things just don't always continue as they have been. That's why this idea that the Arab Spring came, it went, it happened, it didn't work, therefore the Middle East will always remain an autocracy - that's linear thinking. Great events are great precisely because they're not linear. Lees meer
Robert Kaplan
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Robert reported on foreign policy for The Atlantic for three decades and is currently the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His most recent book is The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:43
What is the Greater Middle East? - 3:13
Developing Political Institutions - 14:55
Turkey and Iran - 26:40
Iraq - 38:15
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The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert Kaplan
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Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu on the Disappointing Elections in Turkey… or How Democratic (or Autocratic) is Turkey Really?
Steven Simon on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East including Iran and the Wars in Iraq
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Is India Still a Democracy? Rahul Verma Emphatically Says Yes
22 augustus 2023 · 39 min
India should be understood as a test case of democracy outside the Western world. Lees meer
Rahul Verma
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Rahul Verma is a fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He is also Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Ashoka University. Recently, he wrote “The Exaggerated Death of Indian Democracy” in the recent Journal of Democracy.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:44
India's Democracy Paradox - 2:24
Reconciling Illiberalism - 15:54
Sources of Indian Democratic Deficits - 20:02
Overstating and Understating Indian Democracy - 30:50
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"The Exaggerated Death of Indian Democracy" in Journal of Democracy by Rahul Verma
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Ashutosh Varshney on India. Democracy in Hard Places
Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism
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Cass Sunstein on Interpreting the US Constitution
15 augustus 2023 · 49 min
It would be a miracle if the original understanding of the Constitution just landed time and time again with the views in 2023 of the right-wing of the Republican Party. That would be too amazing a coincidence. That's more than troublesome. Lees meer
Cass Sunstein
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Cass Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. During Obama’s first term he was the Administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is the author of dozens of books including Nudge(with Richard Thaler) and The World According to Star Wars. His most recent book is How to Interpret the Constitution.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:38
Thinking about the Constitution - 3:06
Different Interpretations - 10:44
Textualism - 24:07
Amendment or Interpretation - 37:23
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How to Interpret the Constitution by Cass Sunstein
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Joseph Fishkin on the Constitution, American History, and Economic Inequality
Donald Horowitz on the Formation of Democratic Constitutions
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Marc Plattner Has Quite a Bit to Say About Democracy
8 augustus 2023 · 42 min
I think we have a more complex notion of what democracy is. Lees meer
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Marc Plattner is the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and the founding codirector of the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies. Until 2016, he also served as NED’s vice president for research and studies, and from 1984 to 1989 he was NED’s director of program. He is the author of Democracy Without Borders? Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy (2008) and of Rousseau’s State of Nature(1979). His essays and reviews on a wide range of international and public policy issues have appeared in numerous books and journals, and he has coedited with Larry Diamond more than two dozen books on contemporary issues relating to democracy in the Journal of Democracy book series.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:48
Democratic Consensus - 2:32
Liberalism and Democracy - 10:26
Democratic Threats - 20:58
Governance - 28:51
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"Why Ukraine Is Critical to Rebuilding Our Democratic Consensus" in the Journal of Democracy by Marc Plattner
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Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc
Larry Diamond on Supporting Democracy in the World and at Home
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Is McKinsey and Company a Threat to Democracy? Michael Forsythe Shares His Reporting
1 augustus 2023 · 53 min
It's too simplistic to call it an evil company. There are certainly a lot of very good people that work there. It's just the system itself and the corporation itself and the system that it's embedded in is what causes the problems. Lees meer
Michael Forsythe
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Michael Forsythe is a reporter on the investigations team at The New York Times. Until February 2017 he was a correspondent in the Hong Kong office, focusing on the intersection of money and politics in China. He is the author (along with Walt Bogdanich) of When McKinsey Comes to Town: the Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:35
Who is McKinsey & Company? - 3:14
Is it Anti-Democratic? - 17:55
Working with Autocrats - 34:17
Can it Change? - 44:33
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When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
"How McKinsey Lost Its Way in South Africa" in The New York Times by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
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Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc
Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Propaganda
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Sergei Guriev Revisits Spin Dictators
25 juli 2023 · 51 min
Spin dictators have fewer political prisoners, fewer political killings. This is good. This is really good. On the other hand, we want to tell everybody that they are still dictators. Lees meer
Sergei Guriev
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Sergei Guriev is a professor of Economics at Sciences Po in Paris. He was a former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the former rector of the New Economic School in Moscow. He is the coauthor (along with Daniel Treisman) of Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:46
Spin Dictatorships and Fear Dictatorships - 3:12
Popular Support - 25:21
Putin - 39:44
Beyond Spin Dictatorship - 43:49
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Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
"Informational Autocrats" in the Journal of Economic Perspectives by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
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Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc
Larry Bartels Says Democracy Erodes from the Top
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Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu on the Disappointing Elections in Turkey... or How Democratic (or Autocratic) is Turkey Really?
18 juli 2023 · 57 min
Elections are not free or fair, but they matter greatly because this is how Erdoğan comes to power and stays in power and in this case he was almost about to lose that power. Lees meer
Sebnem Gumuscu
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Berk Esen is an assistant professor of political science at Sabancı University. Sebnem Gumuscu is an associate professor of political science at Middlebury College. Their recent paper in the Journal of Democracy is “How Erdoğan’s Populism Won Again.”
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:33
Democracy in Turkey - 3:30
The Opposition - 21:36
The AKP - 27:40
Is Democracy Lost? - 41:01
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"How Erdoğan’s Populism Won Again" in Journal of Democracy by Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu
Democratic Erosion: A Research, Teaching, & Policy Collaboration
Democracy or Authoritarianism: Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia by Sebnem Gumuscu
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Hal Brands Thinks China is a Declining Power... Here's Why that's a Problem
11 juli 2023 · 54 min
The most dangerous states in the international system aren't necessarily revisionist powers that think that their trajectory points continually upward. It's those countries that have been growing, rising for a long time, and then fear that they are peaking and are about to decline. Those are the countries that are inclined to take the biggest risks to try to improve their position in the the here and now before things get worse for them in the future. Lees meer
Hal Brands
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Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the coauthor (with Michael Beckley) of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China and the author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:43
Peaking Power Theory - 3:12
The Original Cold War - 22:28
China as a Peaking Power - 31:14
American Policy Toward China - 41:56
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Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley
The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today by Hal Brands
"China’s Threat to Global Democracy" in Journal of Democracy by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley
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Josh Chin on China’s Surveillance State
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Natasha Wheatley Raises Some Really Difficult Questions About Sovereignty
4 juli 2023 · 51 min
My book is in some ways trying to help us see not only the kind of deep intermingling of pre-modern and modern ideas of sovereignty, but how we repeat some of those more fantastical attributes of sovereignty that we might otherwise presume to be long gone remnants of a more superstitious or religious age. Lees meer
Natasha Wheatley
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Natasha Wheatley is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:40
The State as Modern and Pre-Modern - 2:52
The Habsbug Empire - 9:21
Collapse of an Empire - 24:09
The State and International Law - 40:55
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Anna Grzymala-Busse on the Sacred Foundations of Modern Politics
Tom Ginsburg Shares his Thoughts on Democracy and International Law
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Sebastian Edwards on the History of Neoliberalism in Chile
27 juni 2023 · 48 min
I think that the most important reform is openness. Once the country is open, really open to the rest of the world, the rest follows. Lees meer
Sebastian Edwards
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Sebastian Edwards is the Henry Ford II Professor of International Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was the former Chief Economist for Latin America at the World Bank where from 1993 until 1996. His most recent book is The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:46
Pinochet and the Origin of the Chicago Boys - 3:17
Neoliberalism Under Democracy - 22:35
Personal Background of Sebastian Edwards - 30:18
Future of Chile - 38:35
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The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism by Sebastian Edwards
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Jennifer Piscopo on the Constitutional Chaos in Chile
Aldo Madariaga on Neoliberalism, Democratic Deficits, and Chile
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Dan Slater on Thailand's Revolutionary Election
20 juni 2023 · 51 min
Democracy is Eastern as well as Western. Lees meer
Dan Slater
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Dan Slater is the James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science, the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies, and director of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan. His most recent book (coauthored with Joseph Wong) is From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia. More recently he wrote the article "Thailand's Revolutionary Election" at the Journal of Democracy.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:41
An Inspiring Election - 2:38
Parties and Politics - 5:09
Forming a Government - 21:09
Risks and Hope - 35:53
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"Thailand's Revolutionary Election" by Dan Slater at Journal of Democracy
From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia by Dan Slater and Joseph Wong
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Peter Turchin Wants to Avoid Political Disintegration
13 juni 2023 · 48 min
If you have grown up in a household which had decent quality of life and now you are struggling, you cannot even match the degree of wellbeing that your parents achieved, this is very obvious and makes people feel completely dissatisfied with the system that we have now. Lees meer
Peter Turchin
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Peter is a complexity scientist who has established a new field of social science research called cliodynamics. He is the author of the book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration,
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:45
The Crisis - 3:05
Elites - 11:54
Popular Immiseration - 30:59
Cliodynamics - 43:40
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End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
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Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Francis Fukuyama Responds to Liberalism’s Discontents
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Isabel Kershner on Israel and its Divisions
6 juni 2023 · 51 min
It's very hard to understand what's happening today without looking at the roots of all these divisions and at the interests of the different communities and their long-held resentments against the establishment of the country. Lees meer
Isabel Kershner
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Isabel Kershner is a reporter at The New York Times and the author of a new book called The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:37
Mizrahi and Askenazi - 5:31
Immigration - 18:08
Ultra-Orthodox - 28:12
Netanyahu's Judiciary Proposal - 39:27
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The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul by Isabel Kershner
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Steven Simon on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East including Iran and the Wars in Iraq
Yascha Mounk on the Great Experiment of Diverse Democracies
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Cole Bunzel on Wahhābism
30 mei 2023 · 47 min
The Jihadis today root themselves theologically and ideologically in a particular movement that is exclusivist, that is militant, that is activist, and that is the movement known as Wahhābism. Lees meer
Cole Bunzel
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Cole Bunzel is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the editor of the blog Jihadica. He is the author of the book Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:33
Relevance and Overview - 2:43
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab - 14:15
Appeal to Adherents - 26:14
Legacy - 36:16
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Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement by Cole Bunzel
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Marsin Alshamary on Iraq’s Struggle for Democracy
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Daron Acemoglu on Technology and the Struggle for Shared Prosperity
23 mei 2023 · 49 min
If you have this model of AI, which is geniuses design machines and those machines or algorithms are going to scoop up all the data and they're going to make better decisions for you. That's fundamentally anti-democratic. Lees meer
Daron Acemoglu
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Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. He is coauthor (with James A. Robinson) of The Narrow Corridor, Why Nations Fail, and The Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. His latest book (with Simon Johnson) is Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:33
Technology and Progress - 2:06
Productivity - 14:01
Artificial Intelligence - 24:42
Shared Prosperity - 34:31
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
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Jamie Susskind Explains How to Use Republican Ideals to Govern Technology
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Serhii Plokhy on the Russo-Ukrainian War
16 mei 2023 · 43 min
The fact that Ukraine can be a democracy.... presents a threat to the authoritarian regimes in Moscow and Minsk of the sort that NATO would never actually present. Lees meer
Serhii Plokhy
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Serhii Plokhy is a Professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University and the Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He’s written many books including The Gates of Europe, Nuclear Folly, and Atoms to Ashes. His most recent book is The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:37
Ukrainian Political Identity - 2:39
Background on the War - 18:31
Causes of the War - 26:22
Nuclear Power in a War - 36:06
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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy
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Olga Onuch and Henry Hale Describe the Zelensky Effect
Michael McFaul and Robert Person on Putin, Russia, and the War in Ukraine
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Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc
9 mei 2023 · 39 min
We are at a moment of very, very high risk and I'm not sure that people really know that or understand it, or if they do, if they care. Lees meer
Anne Applebaum
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Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. Some of her books include Gulag: A History, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, and most recently Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. She recently gave the Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture titled "Autocracy, Inc."
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:42
What is Autocracy, Inc - 3:47
Democratic Response - 13:40
Appeal of Authoritarianism - 26:51
Thoughts on Poland - 32:26
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Marsin Alshamary on Iraq’s Struggle for Democracy
2 mei 2023 · 51 min
The thing that really astonishes me is that there's never any agency given to Iraqis, both during the war and the occupation, but also 20 years later. It always goes back to what the Americans did. There's a defeatism about Iraq's ability to do anything on its own and I think that's at the heart of why people can't see anything democratic in the country. Lees meer
Marsin Alshamary
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Marsin Alshamary is a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative and nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy. She is the author of the paper "Iraq’s Struggle for Democracy" in the Journal of Democracy.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:41
Is Iraq a Democracy - 3:37
Iraqi Social Cleavages - 9:20
Iraqi Consociationalism - 26:33
Challenges to Democracy in Iraq - 36:55
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"Iraq’s Struggle for Democracy" in the Journal Democracy by Marsin Alshamary
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Steven Simon on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East including Iran and the Wars in Iraq
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Jamie Susskind Explains How to Use Republican Ideals to Govern Technology
25 april 2023 · 48 min
The problem in both cases is not Zuckerberg or Musk, but the idea of a Zuckerberg or Musk. The idea that, simply by virtue of owning and controlling a particular technology, someone wields arbitrary or unaccountable power which can touch every aspect of our liberty and our democracy. Lees meer
Jamie Susskind
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Jamie Susskind is an author and barrister. He has held fellowships at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. His work is at the crossroads of technology, politics, and law. His most recent book is The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:44
Challenges of Digital Technology - 3:18
Artificial Intelligence - 20:09
A Digital Republic - 40:27
Possible Solutions - 43:42
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The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century by Jamie Susskind
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Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Propaganda
Ronald Deibert from Citizen Lab on Cyber Surveillance, Digital Subversion, and Transnational Repression
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James Goldgeier on NATO, its Enlargement, and its Future
18 april 2023 · 49 min
Who would be a better ally than Ukrainians? These are people who are fighting so bravely and have shown so much resilience. That's what we should want in an ally. Lees meer
James Goldgeier
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James Goldgeier is a a Professor of International Relations at American University. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Center on International Security and Cooperation and a Visiting Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. Recently, he is the coeditor with Joshua Itzkowitz Shifrinson of a new book called Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:35
Purpose of NATO - 2:37
NATO Expansion - 16:00
NATO and Democratization - 22:41
Future of NATO - 32:42
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Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War edited by James Goldgeier and Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
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Robert Kagan Looks to American History to Explain Foreign Policy Today
Michael McFaul and Robert Person on Putin, Russia, and the War in Ukraine
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Steven Simon on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East including Iran and the Wars in Iraq
11 april 2023 · 44 min
The Iraqis suffered so heavily and not just because of the 2003 war. The first war in 1991 inflicted terrible damage on Iraq and then the next 10 years of sanctions immiserated the populace and inflicted an especially punishing blow on Iraqi women and children. Lees meer
Steven Simon
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Steven served on the National Security Council staff from 1994 to 1999 and again fro 2011 to 2012. Earlier he served in the State Department for fifteen years. He is currently a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies and his most recent book is Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:43
Iran - 4:41
JCPOA - 22:58
The Iraq Wars - 27:19
Saudi Arabia - 32:57
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Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East by Steven Simon
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"America's Great Satan" By Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon in Foreign Affairs
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Robert Kagan Looks to American History to Explain Foreign Policy Today
Zoltan Barany on the Ineffectiveness of the Gulf Militaries
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Larry Bartels Says Democracy Erodes from the Top
4 april 2023 · 53 min
Democracy is a much more complicated thing than we often give it credit for and certainly speaking dichotomously about democracy being in crisis or not is an oversimplification. Lees meer
Larry Bartels
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Larry Bartels is the May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University and a Co-Director for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. His new book is called Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:34
A Crisis of Democracy? 3:02
Populism 23:20
Political Restraint - 37:49
What is Democracy? 44:51
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Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe by Larry Bartels
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels
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Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Jason Brownlee Believes We Underestimate Democratic Resilience
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Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Propaganda
28 maart 2023 · 42 min
One of the things that we see happening online is sort of a democratization of propaganda. Lees meer
Samuel Woolley
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Samuel Woolley is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and the project director for propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement. His most recent book is Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:43
Background on Technology (including Bots) - 3:00
Artificial Intelligence - 10:17
Democratization of Propaganda - 20:44
The Legitimation of Ideas - 30:48
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Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity by Samuel Woolley
"Digital Propaganda: The Power of Influencers" in the Journal of Democracy by Samuel Woolley
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Richard Wike Asked Citizens in 19 Countries Whether Social Media is Good for Democracy
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Josh Chin on China's Surveillance State
21 maart 2023 · 41 min
It's hard to believe what was happening in Xinjiang and most Chinese people didn't believe, but now they do. A lot of them do. Lees meer
Josh Chin
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Josh Chin is the Deputy Bureau Chief for China at the Wall Street Journal and the coauthor with Liza Lin of the book Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:38
Describing Xinjiang - 2:38
Social Engineering - 11:21
Privacy in China - 19:08
AI in China - 28:23
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Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Josh Chin and Liza Lin
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"The Mandarin in the Machine" A review of Surveillance State in Journal of Democracy by Will Dobson
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Elizabeth Economy in a Wide Ranging Conversation About China
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Staffan Lindberg with a Report on Democracy in the World
14 maart 2023 · 43 min
Democracy dies with the lies. Even that simplest form of democracy, which is that we vote on a politician or we don't and we vote on another politician depends on the truth. Because if you can lie about what you did in office or lie about what you didn't do, that sort of vertical accountability breaks down. It becomes meaningless. Lees meer
Staffan Lindberg
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Staffan Lindberg is the Director of the V-Dem Institute, one of the five principal investigators of the Varieties of Democracy Project, and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. He is also a coeditor of the book Why Democracies Develop and Decline along with Michael Coppedge, Amanda B. Edgell, and Carl Henrik Knutsen.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:46
Bright Spots for Democracy - 3:24
Autocratization and Democratic Backsliding - 13:20
Causes of Democratic Recession - 22:25
Criticisms of the Report - 34:56
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Why Democracies Develop and Decline edited by Michael Coppedge, Amanda B. Edgell, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and Staffan Lindberg
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"A Third Wave of Autocratization is Here: What is New About it?" in Democratization by Anna Lührmann and Staffan Lindberg
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Michael Coppedge on Why Democracies Emerge, Why They Decline, and Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
Sarah Repucci from Freedom House with an Update on Freedom in the World
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Srdja Popovic on Dilemma Actions
7 maart 2023 · 51 min
It is one Putin when you see him on a calendar. It's yet another Putin when he needs to arrest a snowman. Lees meer
Srdja Popovic
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Srdja Popovic is the co-founder of CANVAS, and was a founding member of the Otpor! (“Resistance!”) a movement that had a crucial part in bringing down the Milosevic regime in Serbia. He recently coauthored an article in the Journal of Democracy with Sophia McClennen and Joe Wright called, “How to Sharpen a Nonviolent Movement.”
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:27
What are Dilemma Actions? 2:24
Different Types of Dilemma Actions - 18:53
Effectiveness - 33:01
Strategies and Tactics - 38:37
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"How to Sharpen a Nonviolent Movement" in the Journal of Democracy by Sophia McClennen, Srdja Popovic, and Joseph Wright
Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic with Matthew Miller
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Mohammed Ali Kadivar on Paths to Durable Democracy and Thoughts on the Protests in Iran
Erica Chenoweth on Civil Resistance
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Wendy Hunter on Lula, Bolsonaro, January 8th and Democracy in Brazil
28 februari 2023 · 46 min
I do want to underscore this should not be read as a victory of the left. It's a victory of Lula and a narrow victory. And it's Lula the person. It's not so much Lula from the PT as the party that won. Lees meer
Wendy Hunter
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Wendy Hunter is a Professor of Government at the University of Texas Austin. Recently, she cowrote an article with Timothy Power in the Journal of Democracy called “Lula’s Second Act.”
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:36
Lula - 2:16
The 2022 Presidential Election - 13:01
Bolsonaro - 20:45
January 8th - 27:18
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"Lula's Second Act" in the Journal of Democracy by Wendy Hunter and Timothy J. Power
"Bolsonaro and Brazil’s Illiberal Backlash" in the Journal of Democracy by Wendy Hunter and Timothy J. Power
"The Normalization of an Anomaly: The Workers' Party in Brazil" in World Politics by Wendy Hunter
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Jennifer Piscopo on the Constitutional Chaos in Chile
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Jennifer Piscopo on the Constitutional Chaos in Chile
21 februari 2023 · 54 min
I think voters right now, remember the circus of the convention over the substance of what it did. I think there is a bit of an amnesia over the mandate for change that existed in 2019 and 2020 that the Constitution delivered on, that voters had moved away from that mandate to change by the time the Constitution went for approval. Lees meer
Jennifer Piscopo
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Jennifer Piscopo is an associate professor of politics at Occidental College. Recently, she coauthored a paper with Peter Siavelis in the Journal of Democracy called “Chile’s Constitutional Chaos.”
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:42
Demands for a New Constitution - 3:04
The Constitution Making Process - 17:18
Substance of the Constitution - 33:29
Why Voters Rejected it - 36:53
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"Chile's Constitutional Chaos" in Journal of Democracy by Peter M. Siavelis and Jennifer Piscopo
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Aldo Madariaga on Neoliberalism, Democratic Deficits, and Chile
Donald Horowitz on the Formation of Democratic Constitutions
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Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
14 februari 2023 · 49 min
I think democracy and capitalism are individually in crisis in that they're not working very well and that the combination of the two in one political and economic system, which we have come to think of as the Western Way, is in crisis not only because the two component parts are in crisis, but because they're in crisis interactively. Lees meer
Martin Wolf
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Martin Wolf is the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. He has written many books, but his most recent is The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.
Key Highlights
Introduction - 0:51
The Link Between Democracy and Capitalism - 3:10
Does Capitalism Reinforce Democracy? 16:50
Status Anxiety - 26:13
Populism- 38:55
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf
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Francis Fukuyama Responds to Liberalism’s Discontents
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