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The West must address the degradation of democracy domestically, and worldwide. It's on the right side in the war in Ukraine. And in China. But what doesn’t ring true is President Biden’s flaunting the democratic cause as a foreign policy stick.
Governments around the world have slipped toward autocracy in recent years. Using historical data and case studies, DW looks at how democracies have fared against such threats.
The number of liberal democracies, defined as democracies with a strong rule of law and equal protection of basic rights, has dropped 19 percent, to 34 from 42 a decade ago.