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4. Dezember 2023 | EDP Wire | Julia Leininger
No Sellout of Democracy
Bonn, 13 September 2023. The G20 summit showcased that democracies and autocracies need to cooperate with each other. „Standing up for democracy and cooperating with autocrats – is that possible?“ asks Julia Leininger in the Current Column. This EDP Wire …
weiter lesen »22. September 2023 | EDP Wire | Pascal Abb, Hanna Pfeifer, Irene Weipert-Fenner, Jonas Wolff
An Audible Silence: The Role of Autocracy and Democracy in Germany’s National Security Strategy
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine revived the narrative of a global competition between democracies and autocracies, which had already gained importance in the wake of China’s rise to power. In March 2022, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had also spoken of …
weiter lesen »26. Juni 2023 | EDP Wire | Rebecca Wagner
The Republic of Kyrgyzstan in a Process of Autocratization: Steinmeier’s Visit to Central Asia in the Context of National Processes and the German National Security Strategy
Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier is on a official trip through Central Asia, where he is not only visiting Kazakhstan but also the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. Against the backdrop of far-reaching restrictions against civil society and human rights activists, this …
weiter lesen »24. Oktober 2022 | EDP Wire | Jonas Wolff, Lukas Harth, Florian Kriener
Responding to Foreign Interference in the EU: Beware of Unintended Consequences
The EU’s emerging response to foreign interference, as it is currently debated in the EU Parliament, contains striking similarities to arguments put forth by some governments around the world seeking to justify harsh restrictions on foreign funding and „foreign agents.“ …
weiter lesen »6. September 2022 | EDP Wire | Jonas Wolff
The Reconstitution of Liberal Hegemony in Comparative Regime Research: V-Dem’s Discursive Turn from the Contestation to the Decontestation of Democracy
Within just a few years, the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project has experienced a remarkable rise to both academic and political prominence. As Jonas Wolff shows in his paper that was just published open access with Contemporary Politics, this rise has been accompanied by a notable discursive shift: Having started as a project aimed at taking seriously the essential conceptual contestability of democracy, in recent years V-Dem has adopted an increasingly narrow and taken-for-granted focus on liberal democracy.
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