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TALKING TURKEY Let’s state the obvious: Living through a pandemic sucks. It’s hard to balance every decision we make against the threat of getting sick or getting others sick. It’s why we are all now anxiously awaiting an end to the pandemic, desperately searching for signs that it’s safe to go back to the way our lives were just a year ago.
How Middle-Power Democracies Can Help Renovate Global Democracy Support
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Summary: Middle-power democracies should not tread water while waiting for the United States to address its own democratic crisis. They must help revamp global democracy support using their comparative strengths.
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Democracy is on the defensive globally. Elected governments are struggling to stand up to emboldened authoritarian rivals. The coronavirus pandemic has increased democratic backsliding. Democracies are struggling to address these international challenges in the face of the pandemic and internal pressure from their own aggrieved citizens dissatisfied with progress on issues like economic inequality and racial injustice. Global leadership on democracy issues was absent from the United States while Donald Trump was president. While some U.S. democracy programming continued in the Trump years, U