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Dec 2021
33m 44s

Can Democracy Survive?

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
About this episode

In the face of democratic backsliding around the world, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Applebaum and Richard Haass discuss what needs to happen for democracy to survive.

 

Episode Guest: 

Anne Applebaum (Staff Writer, Atlantic).

 

This episode is based on a live event that took place on May 4, 2021.

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/can-democracy-survive.

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