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How to Ensure This Never Happens Again
“With even the soon-to-be Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, now conceding that elections are not supposed to look like this, the months ahead may present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix what’s wrong with American democracy — or risk losing it altogether” (Gage and Bazelon, 2021).
The Big Bounce-Back?
“Following the 2008 financial crisis, many policymakers failed to focus sufficiently on securing robust, inclusive, and sustainable long-term growth. To avoid repeating this mistake in 2021 as the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, governments must act early and decisively in three areas” (Mohamed A. El-Erian, 2021).
It Wasn’t Strictly a Coup Attempt. But It’s Not Over, Either.
“Experts say recent actions by President Trump and his loyalists are harder to stop than a coup — citing anti-democratic slides in Turkey and Venezuela as closer examples” (Amanda Taub, 2021).
It Happened in America
“It was always easy...to dismiss the worst-case scenarios as the product of alarmist academics, overly imaginative Trump haters, biased liberal commentators, and disgruntled former officials.” Could “concerning outcomes” “really happen in a country like the United States, with its deep democratic roots and established institutional checks? To many, that seemed unthinkable” (Pippa Norris, 2021).
America Can’t Promote Democracy Abroad. It Can’t Even Protect It at Home.
The January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol is “a sign of how broken U.S. foreign-policy debates are that the primary reaction from many commentators was to worry about America’s moral authority and global leadership” (Emma Ashford, 2021).
Youth Democracy, Human Rights & Governance Cross-Sectoral Initiative
"CEPPS established the Youth Democracy and Governance (DRG) Cross-Sectoral Initiative to examine the intersections between DRG and other youth development sectors... This initiative explored cross-sectoral challenges and opportunities to connect young people’s interests and their desire to solve sectoral development problems with their political participation and ability to influence decision-making" (National Democratic Institute, 2021).
Are We the Cows of the Future?
“Nature is not settled and permanent, but always in flux. It is not something separate from humans, reliably ready to soothe our woes and restore our spirits. It is rather entangled in the web and substance of humanity, its helter-skelter activity, its ceaseless pursuits” (Esther Leslie, 2021).
Doing Democracy During the Pandemic
“Social distancing laws, curfews, and track-and-trace technologies employed in the context of the COVID-19 crisis have been used to harass, detain, or sanction human-rights defenders and other activists in countries around the world. But that hasn't stopped the global wave of protests from continuing to build” (Lara Wodke, 2020).
Annual Review Of Constitution-Building: 2019
The first chapter summarizes a series of discussions International IDEA held with experts/scholars on the evolution of constitution-building from the past decade. The edition also includes chapters on public participation, constitutional change, the negotiations on federal state structures in Guinea, Mongolia, Zimbabwe and many other nations. (Abebe, et al., 2020)
A Messy Financial Divorce for the US and China
“Even as official financial decoupling progresses, US and other financial firms are – with China’s blessing – building asset management, securities, life insurance, fintech, and custody businesses in the Chinese market. Should President-elect Joe Biden's administration support this process or double down on decoupling? (George Magnus, 2021).
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