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The Gutting of Palestine
This report outlines the paradoxical situation that Gaza finds itself in, at once in the worst position since 1948 with no political clout yet with unparalleled global expressions of solidarity. With geopolitical deadlock and the widening of the conflict, prospects of an end to Israel’s destruction of Gaza are as distant as ever. But momentum…
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Democracy in the 21st Century: Fragility and Resilience
This report summarises the key discussions and outcomes of the 2025 annual meeting of the Toda Peace Institute’s Global Challenges to Democracy Working Group, held in Geneva on 5–6 June in collaboration with the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Geneva Graduate Institute. The meeting centred on three main themes: the democratic threats posed…
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America’s Retreat and the Future of Economic Multilateralism
This policy brief discusses the systematic retreat of the United States from multilateral institutions which threatens global economic reform, coinciding with China’s construction of alternative frameworks and rising great-power bilateralism. This leads to a growing incapacity for shared solutions on development finance, climate action, and tax coordination. The analysis identifies three strategic pathways—institutional evolution, adaptive…
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‘Trump-ed’ Democratic Ideals in Arab–US Relations: ‘Democracy Promotion in Reverse’?
This report discusses the rise of transactionalism in the Gulf states’ relations with the US, which is set not only to sideline democratic principles, norms, and institutions within Gulf polities, but also within the wider Arab region.
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Democratic Resilience in the United States: Containing Trump’s Threat to Democracy?
This report provides a comparative perspective on two crucial questions. First, what are the possibilities that the United States might devolve into what political scientists have called a ‘competitive authoritarian regime’—one in which the façade of democratic institutions obscures the reality of political power that cannot be held to account by either constitutional checks-and-balances or…
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