As part of the Millenium Project, 15 Global Challenges have been established to provide a framework to assess the global and local prospects for humanity.
One of these urgent challenges is the retreat of democracy around the world as more nations roll back the hard fought democratic freedoms.
After peaking in the late 1990s, democracy around the world appears today to be in retreat, with a resurgence of authoritarian regimes such as Russia and the failure of weak quasi-democracies across the world.
Freedom House, the US think tank, produces an annual report on political rights and civil liberties in 195 countries around …read more
Is Democracy in Retreat?
