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How America’s Nation Building Efforts Around the World Is a Downfall for Democracy

How It All Started In the latter part of 2001, The United States went into Afghanistan to overtake the Taliban government in attempts to go after...

The 20th century has shown us that there are many reasons for democracies to experience backsliding. Many of the reasons for backsliding are...

While there is hope for America’s future as a democracy, there are serious democratic backsliding issues at the present moment. Increased...

The recent introduction of vaccine mandates to states and workplaces across the United States has only served to further the political...

Elected in 1994, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has consolidated an alarmingly substantial amount of power using Belarus’ democratic...

In recent years, the Republic of Belarus has become a pertinent example of democratic backsliding in Eastern Europe. Nowhere was this clearer...

Should foreign governments intervene to "protect" and "promote" democracy? If so, when? A big idea behind promoting democracy is...

Stealth authoritarianism, as explained by Ozan Varol, is a relatively new concept in international affairs discourse (Varol 2015). Before the...

The United States is more populist than we think. Populism is on the rise, and many Americans have neglected the influence of populist leaders....