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Predicting a "Rule-of-Law" Crisis?
Are we facing a "constitutional" or "rule-of-law" crisis? What can/should the peacebuilding community do in such circumstances? This is what we call "the peacebuilder's dilemma."
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Challenges Posed by Bad-Faith Actors Who Who Are Trying to Profit by Undermining Collaboration and Power-with Democracy
Not everyone is making a good-faith effort to strengthen democracy and handle conflict constructively. There are many types of bad-faith actors who, for selfish reasons, deliberately try to inflame and exploit conflict.
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Defending Democracy from the Bad-Faith Actors Who Seek to Undermine It
Unfortunately, the ability to successfully navigate contemporary conflict also requires a sophisticated array of skills to defend those efforts from unscrupulous attacks by bad-faith actors on those who are making a good-faith effort to build a democracy that works for all.
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So You're Worried About Autocracy
Eve Sneider and Jonathan Stray reflect on what we should do now if we are worried about autocracy. You can fight a politician but not your fellow citizens, they say.
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Is this Russia's 4-Step long-game to destabilize the U.S.A.?
An extremely important article that explains a long-standing Russian strategy for destabilizing its adversaries and many ways in which the West is now falling victim to that strategy.
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How To Spot Authoritarianism --- and Choose Democracy
Detailing the seven steps of the authoritarian playbook, Ian Bassin invites us all to put aside our differences and rethink our role in the fight for freedom, revealing the hope and power behind every choice we make.
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If and when you live in a dictatorship, how will you know?
As we continue to agonize over whether or not we are becoming an authoritarian society, the timely essay that helps us understand what dictatorship really looks like.