July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
The first two months of the war alone turned the Russian clock back decades, undoing thirty years of post-Soviet economic gains and reducing the country to an international pariah state.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
Any open society’s best weapon against Chinese influence operations is its openness—the ability to investigate and expose sharp-power manipulations, diminishing their strength.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
The Kremlin wields food as a weapon and a shield against Western interference. But Putin’s push for food autarky could backfire, driving up prices and turning Russians against the regime.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
Swarms of “nano-influencers,” are rapidly reshaping social-media propaganda campaigns, upending political discourse in democracies around the world.
The Curse of the Ex-Presidents (July 2022)
Across Latin America, former leaders are keeping a chokehold on their countries’ politics. It’s time their successors break free.
By Casey Cagley
The Life of the Party (July 2022)
Establishment parties are flagging. They should learn from political disruptors.
By Patrick Quirk and Jan Surotchak
Democracy’s Most Dangerous Assumptions (June 2022)
It is tempting to believe the horrors of the past will not haunt our future. Vladimir Putin is proving that we hold such beliefs at our peril.
By Daniel Fried
August 2022
The LA Times’ Matt Pearce cites JoD editor Will Dobson and cofounder Larry Diamond in his article on U.S. media’s growing efforts to defend democracy.
May 2022
Journal coeditors Will Dobson and Tarek Masoud joined former coeditor Larry Diamond for a conversation on the future of democracy. At the event, Diamond was awarded NED’s Democracy Service Medal.
In a deeply polarized United States, ordinary people now consume and espouse once-radical ideas and are primed to commit violence.
The Afghan republic’s destruction was sewn into its founding. The international community’s missteps are more responsible for its failure than the country’s supposedly endemic corruption.
Thirty years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia is firmly in the grip of an autocrat. Where did Russia’s path go wrong?
By Roberto Stefan Foa
While analysts of populism have focused on economic woes and “cultural backlash,” a thirst for the restoration of order may better explain the appeal of authoritarian populists in fragile democracies where governance is falling short.
EXPANDED EDITION
Larry Diamond
A longer version of his final essay as Journal of Democracy coeditor.
Our October 2021 issue, featuring “Russia’s Road to Autocracy” by Michael McFaul, is now available free of charge.
