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Feedback Loops and Bridging Democratic Resilience From Above and From Below: The Case of Tunisia, 2011-2021
Larbi Sadiki begins with a discussion of the scholarship on democratic resilience and on transformative collective resilience, building up to a conceptualization of ‘democratic resilience from below’. It then turns to the empirical analysis of the Tunisian case, briefly setting the scene with an overview of the political turbulence in Tunisia since July 2021.
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At Hammarskjöld’s Grave, Sixty-Five Years After Ndola
Late in August I stood at Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave in Uppsala. It is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists to prevent. He died sixty-five years ago this month, on 18 September 1961, in an aircraft crash near Ndola, in what is now Zambia. He…
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Democracy Lighthouse Digest #13
Chee Soon Juan, Singapore’s opposition leader, discusses the importance of resilience. Kevin Clements and Ria Shibata examine the quiet erosion of New Zealand’s democracy…
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When Politicians Shut Out the Press: A Warning from Australia
Australia’s politics has, in recent weeks, been marked by two parallel but vastly different controversies. The first centred on remarks made by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a podcast appearance while the second involved a decision from One Nation leader Pauline Hanson to block the national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and other media outlets from…
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Thoughts on Decolonising Democracy
This paper examines the disturbing and potentially ruinous effects of our crumbling global order on the spirit and substance of democracy, not only within the heartlands of the declining American empire but also in Canada, Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, Italy, Australia, South Korea and other small and medium-sized outlier democracies which were once its…
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