Dec 5, 2024
About the series: This is a critical
year for the future of democracy. Half the world’s population will
go to the polls in 2024, at a time when citizens in America and
across the globe are losing faith in democratic institutions. We
often view the rollback of democracy and threats to the liberal
international order as separate problems, but in reality they are
closely interlinked. Through a new limited podcast series, MEI’s
Gonul Tol seeks to examine the interplay between democracy’s
domestic and international foes as well as how to counter them.
In this episode: Last month, the US electorate
voted President-Elect Donald Trump back into the White House. His
victory was seen by some experts as part of a global trend and a
move towards anti-incumbency attitudes and populism.
How will Trump’s rhetoric impact the United States domestically and internationally? Will he govern as a strongman during his second term? What can we expect to be different from his first term?
Dr. Larry Diamond, Mosbacher Senior Fellow of Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and author of Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, join host Gonul Tol to discuss Trump’s election.