Last week, Vladimir Kara-Murza was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for columns written in his prison cell.

Read the essay Kara-Murza wrote for our journal:
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Why do militaries launch coups?

Read this collection of essays to learn what makes a military more likely to assist in a presidential coup or to overthrow the government.
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Earlier today, Georgian lawmakers passed a Putinesque bill allowing for crackdowns on civil society.

Read this #onlineexclusive to understand what this might mean for Georgia (and democracy as a whole): journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusi…

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'Even if accommodation proved to be a propitious endeavor, the harm it would do to Western credibility cannot be ignored...[the] gap between Western rhetoric on supporting Africans’ democratic aspirations and their lived reality has done great damage.'

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The argument that we must accommodate Africa's juntas is nonsense. Security, economic and migration interests have all deteriorated under their rule. Further compromise will magnify these trends and embolden coup leaders. My co-authored Journal of Democracy essay: journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusi…

'Indonesian democracy is neither basically fine nor has it basically failed—it is fighting for its life...Indonesia is still...a high-quality democracy.'

Subscribe to read 'Indonesia's High-Stakes Handover' by Dan Slater:
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'Orbán's singular success teaches us what the failure to democratize looks like. It also tells us what to look for in anticipating the failure of democracies.'

Subscribe to read 'What Went Wrong In Hungary' by Veronica Anghel and Erik Jones:
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'Over the last five years, a number of civil society organizations have been caught in the BJP’s crosshairs and forced to cease operations.'

Read 'Why This Election Is India’s Most Important' by Šumit Ganguly here ( #electionwatch ):
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'Generally, it is easier for a president to entice into his self-coup a military that has historically been neglected than one already enjoying the lion’s share of power and wealth.'

Read Sharan Grewal's essay to learn why some militaries support coups:
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'The richest man in Georgia wants to maintain the country as his personal fiefdom indefinitely, and knows that...his best chance is to move the whole country in the direction of the autocrat-friendly Russian world.'

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Ghia Nodia on why this is a make-or-break moment for democracy in Georgia.

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Ghia Nodia astutely lays out in this Journal of Democracy feature the strategic context and stakes for why so many Georgians are struggling so mightily for their freedom journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusi…

The country’s military brass has a larger role governing Mexico than at any time in the past eighty years. It’s creating a dangerous dependency that won’t be easy to break. Can the generals be reined in?

Read Will Freeman's full essay here:
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'Europe and its North American allies knew the staggering cost they would pay if Joseph Stalin’s equally aggressive and violent totalitarian regime was not prevented from dominating the European continent. NATO was the answer.'

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Less than a year after a bitter loss, the opposition dealt Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling party their largest electoral defeat in decades. The question is whether they can now build on their success.

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'Corruption emerged as one of the most serious challenges in countries struggling to uphold democratic norms last year.'

While global freedom is in decline, democracy struggles to maintain stability. Read more: journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusi…

'For most Ukrainians, elections and political campaigning are not a priority — but defending every inch of Ukrainian territory is.'

Learn more about the obstacles to Ukrainian elections during wartime:
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'Indian democracy...has thrived for most of the country’s postindependence history. The only time it has ever faced a threat as dire as today’s was under the 'state of emergency' declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975.'

#electionwatch
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