Democracy in Retreat

Carnegie Council Podcasts by Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

May 29, 202639:44Society & Culture

In the last twenty years rights and liberties have eroded across more of the world than they have advanced. The cumulative effect is a transformed international order in which authoritarian governments are more assertive...

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