With the rise of mostly right-wing populism around the globe, democracy is in retreat. Last year, more countries became less free than freer for the 13th consecutive year, Freedom House says. Larry Diamond, one of the world’s leading scholars of democracy, joins Greg to explain what he calls a “global democratic recession,” his new book Ill Winds, and why he believes we may be approaching a new progressive era.
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Guest
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution & Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Author, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition and American Complacency
Host
GREGORY FEIFER
Executive Director, Institute of Current World Affairs
Journalist, author of Russians: The People Behind the Power
The Cable is produced by Rebecca Picard.
