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How Middle-Power Democracies Can Help Renovate Global Democracy Support
Middle-power democracies should not tread water while waiting for the United States to address its own democratic crisis.
They must help revamp global democracy support using their comparative strengths.
- Rachel Kleinfeld, Thomas Carothers, Steven Feldstein, Richard Youngs
- Carnegie
Democracy is on the defensive globally.
Elected governments are struggling to stand up to emboldened authoritarian rivals.
The coronavirus pandemic has increased democratic backsliding.
Democracies are struggling to address these international challenges in the face of the pandemic and internal pressure from their own aggrieved citizens dissatisfied with…