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Election Results—June and July 2024

Reports on elections in Belgium, Bulgaria, the European Union, France, Iran, Mauritania, Mongolia, San Marino, and the United Kingdom.

The EU Elections Teach a Powerful Lesson

• Sheri Berman

If mainstream parties don’t listen to voters, extremists will be rewarded at the ballot box.

Why Aspiring Autocrats Are Watching Serbia

• Filip Milačić

Aleksandar Vučić is tearing down what remains of Serbian democracy while the West remains silent. Serbia has become a test case for democratic resolve, and the region’s would-be strongmen are taking notice.

Why the Defenders of Liberal Democracy Need to Stand Up

• Ghia Nodia

If liberal norms and institutions are to prevail, they need to be defended from the left and the right.

Why the German Far Right Is Beginning to Win

• Michael Bröning

For years, they were a fringe vote. Now they are broadening their agenda, tapping into voter frustration, and getting Germans to favor them once again.

Why He May Soon Be Remembered as “Putin the Weak”

• Michael McFaul

The Russian autocrat wanted to go down in history on par with Russia’s greatest leaders. He is increasingly looking like one of its weakest.

Inside the Fight to Save Israeli Democracy

• Natan Sachs

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the public to see his efforts to overhaul the Israeli judiciary as a “reform.” But people have seen it for what it is: a struggle over the very future of democracy itself.

Is Erdoğan on His Way Out?

• Philip Balboni

The Turkish president came to power as an antiestablishment everyman. Twenty years later he is an authoritarian leader clinging to power. Will the forces that catapulted him to power be his demise?

How Women Make the World Safe for Democracy

• Joslyn N. Barnhart
• Robert F. Trager

The suffragists imagined that a greater role for women in democratic politics would lead to a more peaceful world. Few realize how right they were.

Breaking Out of Xi’s Great Prison

• Guoguong Wu

Chinese citizens from Urumqi to Shanghai took to the streets, blank sheets of white paper in hand, to denounce the CCP and call for change. Xi Jinping’s repression and zero-covid lockdowns has united the public in empathy and anger.

Why Women Are Leading the Fight in Iran

• Ladan Boroumand

Iran’s women were the Islamic Republic’s first target for repression. This is the newest chapter in their struggle to win back their rights.

Putin’s Big Gamble

• Robert Person

The Kremlin’s order to call up Russians to fight in Ukraine risks massive protests. It’s the riskiest decision of Putin’s rule, and it could lead to his undoing.

7 Lessons from Turkey’s Effort to Beat a Populist Autocrat

• Murat Somer
• Jennifer McCoy

What the opposition did and how Erdoğan managed to escape outright defeat.

Why the European Elections Will Test Democracy

• Richard Youngs

The danger is greater than the rise of far-right parties. In fact, there is a risk that in their eagerness to contain the far right, European leaders may do greater damage to democracy itself.

How Taiwan Should Combat China’s Information War

• Tim Niven

Beijing assaults Taiwan with a nonstop barrage of conspiracy theories and lies to undermine people’s faith in democracy — and China’s efforts are getting more sophisticated. Taiwan must do even more to fight back. 

A Dictator’s Day in Court

• Nate Grubman

Tunisia’s president is looking to strengthen his chokehold on the country.

South Africa Has Entered a New Era

• Ongama Mtimka

The African National Congress can no longer call all the shots, and opposition parties will have more sway. Will this lead to a more inclusive democracy or gridlock and division?

Why Putin Must Be Defeated

• Andrei Kozyrev

The more determined democracies are to avoid war, the greater the risk that autocracies will wage it.

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The Return of Robert Fico

• Tim Haughton
• Darina Malová

The perennial Slovak politician practices a hardnosed, vengeful form of politics. It is also bad news for the future of Slovakian democracy.