in: V-Dem Working Paper 133
weiter lesen »24. Oktober 2022 | Publication
6. September 2022 | EDP Wire
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.
weiter lesen »6. September 2022 | EDP Wire
Together Against Evil Autocracies? On The Pitfalls Of Basing Germany’s Security Strategy On Democratic Alliance-Building
Owing to China’s rise and the increasingly assertive behaviour of authoritarian states, the theme of a new “systemic competition” has become prominent in German foreign policy discourse. Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has further boosted the idea that the world’s democracies must join forces in the face of menacing autocracies. Jonas Wolff, Pascal Abb, and Hanna Pfeifer analyze the pitfalls of such a dichotomy.
weiter lesen »11. August 2022 | Publication
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations
6. August 2022 | EDP Wire
Gemeinsam gegen die bösen Autokratien? Zu den Fallstricken demokratischer Allianzbildung als Pfeiler einer zukünftigen deutschen Sicherheitsstrategie
In Reaktion auf das zunehmend selbstbewusste Auftreten autoritär verfasster Staaten hat sich auch im deutschen außenpolitischen Diskurs das Bild eines neuen „Systemwettbewerbs“ verfestigt. Die Vorstellung, dass sich die Demokratien dieser Welt im Angesicht bedrohlicher Autokratien zusammenschließen müssen, hat durch den russischen Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine weiter Nahrung erhalten. Jonas Wolff, Pascal Abb und Hanna Pfeifer analysieren die Problematik einer solchen Dichotomie.
weiter lesen »11. Juli 2022 | Publication
From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat
10. Juni 2022 | News
Solveig Richter featured in Television Interview on Phoenix
On June 10th, EDP member Solveig Richter was featured in a television interview on „phoenix“, a German TV channel, in which she discussed Germany’s role in the Balkan states. You can find the interview right here.
weiter lesen »11. Mai 2022 | EDP Wire
Why „Democracy Promotion“ should play no role in a values-based German foreign policy in the MENA region
Despite considerable efforts and financial investments in the MENA region by Germany and other European states, as well as high support for democracy in Arab states, political systems in the MENA region remain authoritarian. Benjamin Schuetze discusses the connection of these phenomena and suggests how meaningful German support in the MENA region could look like.
weiter lesen »10. Mai 2022 | Publication
Why „Democracy Promotion“ should play no role in a values-based German foreign policy in the MENA region
in: Orient II 2022, „Germany’s role in the MENA region: Between continuity and change“
weiter lesen »1. Mai 2022 | Publication