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Christian Science Monitor
March 17, 2018
“India is showing some signs of polarization and illiberal populism, but the more encouraging story in India is one of strong activism and society pushing back – often successfully – against the forces that would restrict rights like freedom of expression,” says Thomas Carothers, an expert on democracyÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
March 13, 2018
The U.S. response to Russian meddling in the 2016 election has been extraordinarily weak. Not only that, it has been accompanied by an attitude of “whataboutism” on the part of some Americans—the relativistic view that the United States has little ground to complain about Russia's actions given its ownÃâà...
Talk Media News
March 2, 2018
The following are excerpts from Episode 30, “Freedom in Retreat,” with guests Sarah Repucci (Freedom House), Thomas Carothers (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and Rosarie Tucci (U.S. Institute of Peace). Subscribe to weekly episodes of “Wake” on iTunes/Apple Podcasts or Google Play,Ãâà...
The Atlantic
February 26, 2018
Thomas Carothers, who directs the democracy and rule-of-law program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told me that the use of such tactics doesn't always go smoothly. He noted, for instance, that China's announcement came on Sunday. The country then stifled online dissent about it.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 19, 2018
Thomas Carothers, a scholar at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, recalls arguing with a State Department official who told him at the time, “Yeltsin is democracy in Russia,” to which Carothers said he replied, “That's not what democracy means.” But what does democracy mean? Can it includeÃâà...
TODAYonline
February 18, 2018
That heavy-handed intervention made some Americans uneasy. Thomas Carothers, a scholar at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, recalls arguing with a State Department official who told him at the time, “Yeltsin is democracy in Russia,” to which Mr Carothers said he replied, “That's not whatÃâà...
New York Times
February 18, 2018
That heavy-handed intervention made some Americans uneasy. Thomas Carothers, a scholar at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, recalls arguing with a State Department official who told him at the time, “Yeltsin is democracy in Russia,” to which Mr. Carothers said he replied, “That's not whatÃâà...
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
September 8, 2017
Thomas Carothers. Article; September 06, 2017. Summary: U.S. democracy policy is under severe strain, but writing off the United States as a key supporter of global democracy is ... Thomas Carothers. Senior Vice President for Studies. More from this author... Is the New U.S. National Security Strategy a Step Backward onÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
April 11, 2017
... the political commentator Fareed Zakaria famously warned in Foreign Affairs of the “rise of illiberal democracy,” arguing that “half of the 'democratizing' countries in the world today are illiberal democracies.” Earlier that year, also in Foreign Affairs, one of the authors of this article (Thomas Carothers) gaveÃâà...
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
September 10, 2015
Thomas Carothers is senior vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In that capacity he oversees all of the research programs at Carnegie. He also directs the Democracy and Rule of Law Program and carries out research and writing on democracy-related issues. Carothers is a leadingÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
December 31, 1999
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh—The Moynarghona refugee camp, a claustrophobic, chaotic mass of bamboo and tarpaulin shacks, slumps over hillsides stripped bare of vegetation. Scrawny teenage boys in T-shirts and sarongs linger on its edges, staring aimlessly at trucks and rickshaws skidding by.
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