Laura Thornton on DW News: Russia ‘Watching with Concern’ after Georgia Drops...
Senior Vice President of Democracy Laura Thornton joined DW News to discuss Georgia’s “foreign agents” law and the protests that led parliament to drop it. DW News Read the Article
View ArticleLaura Thornton in Foreign Policy: Russia Is Furious at Georgia’s Protesters
Moscow issues ominous threats as Georgians fight for their imperiled democracy. Last week, the Georgian parliament, led by the Georgian Dream (GD) party, advanced new legislation that would label...
View ArticleLaura Thornton in The Hill: What Can Be Salvaged from Biden’s Democracy Summit
Ask any person working on democracy issues — off the record — about President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, and you get eye rolls followed by a litany of unflattering reviews, including from U.S....
View ArticleLaura Thornton Discusses Goals of Second Democracy Summit on NPR
KELEMEN: This is the second Summit for Democracy, and this year, there will be events in Zambia, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and South Korea. Laura Thornton, who’s with the German Marshall Fund of the...
View ArticleLaura Thornton Interviewed on Background Briefing: Biden’s Second Summit for...
We begin with the Biden administration’s second Summit for Democracy that began today in Washington D.C. with over 120 world leaders joining in by video minus NATO members Hungary and Turkey who were...
View ArticleLaura Thornton Discusses the Future of Democracy on It All Intersects
On the sidelines of the Summit for Democracy 2023, It All Intersects spoke to Laura Thornton of the German Marshall Fund and Katie La Roque of Freedom House. There are serious human security concerns...
View ArticleLaura Thornton on US Sanctions on Georgian Judges in Civil.ge
In early April, the US State Department took an unprecedented decision against Georgia, sanctioning four Georgian judges. Civil.ge asked experts to assess the consequences of this move and whether...
View ArticleLaura Thornton in Dallas Morning News: Foreign Influence Is Still an Election...
A few weeks ago, at an event focused on democratic decline in the United States, I raised the persistent threat of foreign autocratic actors. The audience reacted ambivalently. “That’s so 2016,” one...
View ArticleInnovation is Needed–and Possible
IntroductionDemocratic backsliding in old, new, rich, and poor democracies has accelerated, as International IDEA, Freedom House, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and Varieties of Democracy (V-DEM)...
View ArticlePoland’s Election Represents a Setback to Illiberalism
“Elections have consequences” the saying goes, often to justify a break with a previous administration. Along Europe’s Eastern flank, where illiberalism is on the rise and support for Ukraine’s fight...
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