Ongoing Projects
Global Challenges to Democracy
Democratic Resilience
This project is a wide-angled look at the multi-layered forces that are contributing to democratic backsliding. The growing erosion of democracy across the globe is spurred by the interaction of many different forces and challenges,…
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An Eye on Arab De-democratization
The Arab region (interchangeably Middle East and North Africa – MENA) has had a chequered history with democratization. Evidently, today, the trend is not one of democratic transition but rather one of ‘autocratization’, i.e. of…
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Reinventing Multilateralism: The United Nations
The United Nations is operating under conditions for which it was not designed. The current crisis is not primarily managerial. It reflects deeper structural tensions. Four interrelated deficits define the problem. The first is the…
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Challenges to Indian Democracy
In what has been described as the world’s largest democracy, the BJP led by Narendra Modi was returned for a third consecutive term in 2024. Many see this as being a political party which ideologically…
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