The security trap is that we can't avoid anarchy without risking tyranny. States were compelled to restrict our freedoms to prevent disease from spreading but they often overstepped the mark. We all went through this trade-off in a very personal way during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Ben Ansel explains why navigating the terrain between total freedom and total control can be so tricky.
Today, Ben explains why democracy and security are such uneasy bedfellows.
• Ben Ansell is professor of comparative democratic institutions at Oxford and author of “Why Politics Fail”
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