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Who is Alexey Navalny? David Herszenhorn Paints a Picture
It's impossible not to admire somebody who is willing to stand up for their country, for freedom and democracy, for the idea that Russians should be able to chart their own future and have a say in what their government looks like. David He
Leadership is Not a Formula Says Moshik Temkin
Leadership is not a formula. It's not something that happens in a vacuum. It's not just something that you can declare about yourself. Moshik Temkin Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/demparadox) Make a one-time Donat
Patricia Evangelista Says The Philippines is an Example of What Happens When Autocrats and Dictators Rise and We Let Them
For people like me or just your ordinary Joes who speak of democracy, I thought it meant freedom. I thought it meant a free press. I thought it meant that people would not die on the streets. Patricia Evangelista Access Bonus Episodes on Pa
Cenk Uygur is Running an Unorthodox Campaign for President
You could take that populism and turn it negative, which often happens... But populism could also be a wonderful thing where you're actually appealing to what the voters want instead of what the powerful want. Cenk Uygur Access Bonus Episod
Shadi Hamid on Democracy, Liberalism, and the Middle East
Autocracy as we understand it today is a modern creation. I think there we see very few successful examples of modern autocracies that are able to sustain themselves. Shadi Hamid Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/dem
Branko Milanovic on Different Visions of Inequality
Writing a book like that makes you really think brutally about the past. It makes you really think about the current time and also how the future would look at you. Branko Milanovic Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/
Yascha Mounk Warns Against a Misguided New Ideology
I really do think that what we've witnessed over the last decades is the emergence of a new ideology that is meaningfully distinct... I think it really is meaningfully distinct from other forms of what is meant to be left wing in the past f
Heather Cox Richardson on History, Conservatism, and the Awakening of American Democracy
It would be a lovely thing if before I die, I get to see a younger generation reclaim democracy and rebuild it in a new, more expansive way. Heather Cox Richardson Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/demparadox) Make a
Daniel Ziblatt on American Democracy, the Republican Party, and the Tyranny of the Minority
I think one of the greatest barriers to reform is thinking that reform is impossible. Daniel Ziblatt Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/demparadox) Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. (https://democracypara
Is Reunification Still Possible? Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo on Korea
North Korea is stable up until the day it's not... The day that it collapses, there'll be a lot of people out there who will say this was inevitable. Victor Cha Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/demparadox) Make a on
Deng Xiaoping is Not Who You Think He is. Joseph Torigian on Leadership Transitions in China and the Soviet Unio
People still think of Chinese history as this two-line struggle because that's the story the Chinese tell. But everything from Mao Zedong's relationship to Liu Shaoqi to anything that happened during the 1980s, it was not a problem of compe
Robert Kaplan on the Politics of the Past and Future of the Greater Middle East
Great developments by nature are not linear. Things just don't always continue as they have been. That's why this idea that the Arab Spring came, it went, it happened, it didn't work, therefore the Middle East will always remain an autocrac
Is India Still a Democracy? Rahul Verma Emphatically Says Yes
India should be understood as a test case of democracy outside the Western world. Rahul Verma Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/demparadox) Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. (https://democracyparadox.com
Cass Sunstein on Interpreting the US Constitution
It would be a miracle if the original understanding of the Constitution just landed time and time again with the views in 2023 of the right-wing of the Republican Party. That would be too amazing a coincidence. That's more than troublesome.
Marc Plattner Has Quite a Bit to Say About Democracy
I think we have a more complex notion of what democracy is. - Marc Plattner Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/demparadox) Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. (https://democracyparadox.com/donations/) A ful
Is McKinsey and Company a Threat to Democracy? Michael Forsythe Shares His Reporting
It's too simplistic to call it an evil company. There are certainly a lot of very good people that work there. It's just the system itself and the corporation itself and the system that it's embedded in is what causes the problems. Michael
Sergei Guriev Revisits Spin Dictators
Spin dictators have fewer political prisoners, fewer political killings. This is good. This is really good. On the other hand, we want to tell everybody that they are still dictators. Sergei Guriev Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://
Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu on the Disappointing Elections in Turkey... or How Democratic (or Autocratic) is Turkey Really?
Elections are not free or fair, but they matter greatly because this is how Erdoğan comes to power and stays in power and in this case he was almost about to lose that power. Sebnem Gumuscu Support Democracy Paradox on Podurama. Listen here
Hal Brands Thinks China is a Declining Power... Here's Why that's a Problem
The most dangerous states in the international system aren't necessarily revisionist powers that think that their trajectory points continually upward. It's those countries that have been growing, rising for a long time, and then fear that
Natasha Wheatley Raises Some Really Difficult Questions About Sovereignty
My book is in some ways trying to help us see not only the kind of deep intermingling of pre-modern and modern ideas of sovereignty, but how we repeat some of those more fantastical attributes of sovereignty that we might otherwise presume
Sebastian Edwards on the History of Neoliberalism in Chile
I think that the most important reform is openness. Once the country is open, really open to the rest of the world, the rest follows. Sebastian Edwards Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/demparadox) Make a one-time Do
Dan Slater on Thailand's Revolutionary Election
Democracy is Eastern as well as Western. Dan Slater Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/demparadox) Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. (https://democracyparadox.com/donations/) A full transcript is availabl
Peter Turchin Wants to Avoid Political Disintegration
If you have grown up in a household which had decent quality of life and now you are struggling, you cannot even match the degree of wellbeing that your parents achieved, this is very obvious and makes people feel completely dissatisfied wi
Isabel Kershner on Israel and its Divisions
It's very hard to understand what's happening today without looking at the roots of all these divisions and at the interests of the different communities and their long-held resentments against the establishment of the country. Isabel Kersh
Cole Bunzel on Wahhābism
The Jihadis today root themselves theologically and ideologically in a particular movement that is exclusivist, that is militant, that is activist, and that is the movement known as Wahhābism. Cole Bunzel Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (h
Daron Acemoglu on Technology and the Struggle for Shared Prosperity
If you have this model of AI, which is geniuses design machines and those machines or algorithms are going to scoop up all the data and they're going to make better decisions for you. That's fundamentally anti-democratic. Daron Acemoglu Acc
Serhii Plokhy on the Russo-Ukrainian War
The fact that Ukraine can be a democracy.... presents a threat to the authoritarian regimes in Moscow and Minsk of the sort that NATO would never actually present. Serhii Plokhy Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/demp
Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc
We are at a moment of very, very high risk and I'm not sure that people really know that or understand it, or if they do, if they care. Anne Applebaum Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/demparadox) Make a one-time Don
Marsin Alshamary on Iraq’s Struggle for Democracy
The thing that really astonishes me is that there's never any agency given to Iraqis, both during the war and the occupation, but also 20 years later. It always goes back to what the Americans did. There's a defeatism about Iraq's ability t
Jamie Susskind Explains How to Use Republican Ideals to Govern Technology
The problem in both cases is not Zuckerberg or Musk, but the idea of a Zuckerberg or Musk. The idea that, simply by virtue of owning and controlling a particular technology, someone wields arbitrary or unaccountable power which can touch ev
