Democratic Backsliding
Exclusive Fellow Session
1pm - 2pm, 25th May 2023
This Fellow Session is a workshop session. It will focus on the new vulnerabilities and threats emerging from democratic backsliding around the world, their implications for Western alliances and the liberal world order, and possible future scenarios. This session will also shed new light on how liberal democracies can anticipate and manage these multifaceted threats. This hybrid session will host the class of Prof. Frédéric Charillon (Professor in International Relations, Université Paris Cité, Sciences Po Paris, ENA) via Zoom at ESSEC Business School Paris.
Moderated by Prof. Pamela Camerra-Rowe
Pamela Camerra-Rowe is a Political Science professor at Kenyon College with a focus on political parties, interest groups, and democratic governance. Currently on sabbatical in Europe, she is studying the responses of center-right parties to the rise of right-wing populism and working on a book about democracy's fragility. With extensive experience as a journalist and fellow in various institutions, she holds a Ph.D. and MA in Political Science from Duke University and a BA from Davidson College.
Recommended literature
These are not required for the workshop, but are designed for those who are interested in reading further on this topic:
Nancy Bermeo, “On Democratic Backsliding,” Journal of Democracy, Vol 27, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 5-19.
Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman, “The Anatomy of Democratic Backsliding,” Journal of Democracy, October 2021, Vol. 32, Issue 4, pp. 27-41. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-anatomy-of-democratic-backsliding/
Thomas Carothers and Benjamin Press, “Understanding and Responding to Global Democratic Backsliding,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 20, 2022, at https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/10/20/understanding-and-responding-to-global-democratic-backsliding-pub-88173
William Galston, “The Enduring Vulnerability of Liberal Democracy,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 31, No. 3, July 2020, pp. 8-24. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-enduring-vulnerability-of-liberal-democracy/
Lucan Way, “The Rebirth of the Liberal World Order,” Journal of Democracy,” April 2022, Vol. 33, Issue 2, 5-17. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-rebirth-of-the-liberal-world-order/
Timothy Garton Ash, Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard, “United West, Divided From the Rest,” European Council on Foreign Relations, Policy Brief, 22 February 2023, https://ecfr.eu/publication/united-west-divided-from-the-rest-global-public-opinion-one-year-into-russias-war-on-ukraine/