Last year Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world, reported that more countries became oppressive rather than free for the thirteenth year in a row. The widespread erosion of political rights and civil liberties along with global attacks on the rule of law and fact-based journalism are to blame for this retreat of democracy. "Democracies are not gifts or miracles; they are painstakingly built forms of government, and none of them are invincible," says Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, who has spent 40 years promoting democracy in over 70 countries. Diamond argues in his new book ,"Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency," that we are at a pivotal point where either a new era of tyranny or democratic renewal could be ushered in around the globe. This next era will depend on political reforms and political leadership from the United States and other free republics.
Diamond will join us to discuss the complicated forces dismantling democracy and threatening freedom as well as what needs to be done to protect free speech, political rights, and civil liberties around the world.
SPEAKER
Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution and The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
MODERATOR
Markos Kounalakis
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution
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