Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Since coming to power in 2002 Recep Tayyip Erdogan has overseen a radical transformation of Turkey. Once a pillar of the Western alliance, the country has embarked on a militaristic foreign policy, and its democracy, sustained by the aspiration to join the European Union, has given way to one-man rule.
Despite serious concerns over the state of European democracy, a spirit of democratic resistance has gained significant traction. Still, to turn the tide decisively in democracy’s favor, more ambitious renewal will be needed.
Why divisions have deepened and what can be done to heal them.
One of the signal events in global politics in the last decade has been the transformation of political and civic activism. Not only is the new activism qualitatively different in character from what it was in 2000; its intensity and frequency have dramatically increased.
Drawing on a trove of newly declassified cables and memos, this book gives readers a rare inside look at U.S. diplomacy in action.
An urgent and provocative look at how extreme violence can cripple democracies, including the United States, and how they can regain security.
The first in-depth investigation of the role money plays in the world’s largest democracy.
An analytical overview of the institutional foundations of the world’s largest democracy.
The first comprehensive study of the nexus between crime and democracy in India.
The upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa have only just begun, and the hopes of Arab regimes and Western policymakers to retreat to old habits of authoritarian stability are doomed to fail.