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Democracy Lighthouse Digest #5
This edition of the Democracy Lighthouse Digest includes a commentary from Larbi Sadiki fifteen…
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The Danger of a Transactional Worldview
On December 4, the Trump administration released its 2025 National Security Strategy, the document articulating America’s approach to global security. That same day, at the newly renamed Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace, the President hosted a ceremony celebrating a ‘historic’ peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Within hours,…
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Democracy Lighthouse Digest #4
This edition of the Democracy Lighthouse Digest includes an interview with Professor Amalinda…
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Party Like Mamdani
This report discusses the important lessons that the New York mayor-elect’s campaign masterclass has for India’s flailing democracy, particularly its ineffectual opposition parties that have failed to mount any meaningful pushback against Modi’s monopoly over power in more than a decade. Indian-born Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech laced with quotes of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal…
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The Empire Has No Clothes: America’s Democratic Sermons and the Authoritarian Boomerang
For decades, the United States stood on the world stage delivering sermons on democracy, capitalism, and human rights. It lectured nations into adopting its model under the banner of American exceptionalism. In 2025, a startling spectacle emerges: the nation that proclaimed itself democracy’s global arbiter now displays the very symptoms of authoritarianism it once denounced.…
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