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Modi’s Monopolists: Labour and Capital in a Broken Democracy
This report examines the case of India, where the balance between labour and capital has moved decisively against labour, breaking the back of one of the most potent forces of democratisation. Countries where workers’ unions are hit the hardest by neoliberalism tend to offer the right-wing movements the most fertile ground. India’s broken democracy now…
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Democracy Lighthouse Digest #6
This edition includes an extract from a lecture on ‘Democracy and Dictators’ given by Yogendra Yadav, an Indian activist and academic. It also includes a short commentary from Professor John Keane on America’s abandonment of democracy in the world.
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Electoral Integrity and the 2026 United States Midterm Elections
This policy brief examines four interconnected threats to electoral integrity: the dismantling of US federal election security infrastructure, the Department of Justice campaign to obtain state voter files, the erosion of redistricting norms through mid-decade partisan gerrymandering, and the appointment of election deniers to key US federal positions. With the 2026 United States midterm elections…
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Middle Powers After Davos
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech that cut against the prevailing diplomatic instinct to soften uncomfortable truths. Speaking at a gathering long associated with affirming confidence in the global economic order, Carney argued that the “rules-based international order” no longer operates as advertised, and…
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Commercialising Peace: A Strategic Risk
The Trump administration’s reported proposal for a new international ‘Board of Peace’ is presented, at least in concept, as a corrective to what its proponents describe as the failures of existing multilateral diplomacy. As outlined in investigative reporting, the initiative is framed as a vehicle for delivering peace agreements more decisively than the United Nations…
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