On June 4, 1989, the world watched as Chinese tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square, bringing a violent end to the peaceful, student-led democracy movement and killing hundreds, maybe thousands, of citizens who sought political reform. Despite this…
In an interview filmed shortly before the Venezuelan government began a violent crackdown against peaceful opposition protesters on February 12, 2014, Christopher Walker met with Forum Research Council Member Javier Corrales to discuss signs of…
In this episode of Democracy Ideas, Forum Executive Director Christopher Walker interviews Sami Atallah to discuss the opportunities and challenges for think tanks in Lebanon and other emerging democracies that Sami described in his chapter in the…
In this episode of Democracy Ideas, Forum Executive Director Christopher Walker sits down with Moisés Naím to discuss the implications for democracy of the ideas outlined in his new book, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches…
In this episode of Democracy Ideas, Forum Executive Director Christopher Walker interviews Steven Heydemann to discuss his article, "Syria and the Future of Authoritarianism," published in the October 2013 issue of the Forum's Journal of Democracy.
In this episode of Democracy Ideas, Forum Executive Director Christopher Walker discusses governance and democracy with Francis Fukuyama during an interview about his article, "Democracy and the Quality of the State", published in the Journal of…
