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no bull and the aftermath.

You know, there's a few interesting examples of political opposition in central Europe,

that when unified and inclusive around pro-democracy messaging, I've actually been effective in

winning back elections from illiberal and the far-right populist governments we've seen.

I'm Benjamin Whittes and this is the LawFair podcast March 21, 2020.

Democracies around the world are under stress with their norms and institutions undermined

by authoritarian actors, from hungry to India and beyond illiberal or populist governments

or weakening the rule of law, the separation of powers and the integrity of elections.

As part of a two episode LawFair podcast series on the state of global democracy, I spoke

with Alina Poliakova and Tori Tussig about democracy promotion.

Alina Poliakova is the president of the Center for European Policy Analysis and Tori Tussig

is a non-resident fellow at Brookings' Foreign Policy Program and a research director at

the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School.

This Tuesday we will release a second episode with experts at Freedom House on their annual

Freedom in the World Report.

In today's episode we discussed the Democracy Playbook, a report by Alina and Tori along

with Brookings' experts Norm Eisen, Andrew Cannelli and Susan Cork, outlining strategies

that supporters of liberal democracy can implement to prevent and reverse democratic

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