The Future of Democracy in the Global South

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Democracy is in serious trouble in most of the global south, it's just a fact. I think we need to lean very hard on some of these backsliding democracies collectively and as much as possible to avoid hubris in doing so. And then we need a strategy for countering Chinese and Russian efforts to use covert coercive and corrupting practices that undermine democratic societies. We have to fight again as a community of democracies across north, south, east, west, a global community for the idea of democracy.

In this second episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the renowned FT columnist and economist speaks to Larry Diamond, a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies and a senior fellow in global democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Drawing on arguments in Martin’s latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, they discuss what’s behind a deepening global ‘democratic recession’.

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This episode is presented by Martin Wolf. The producer is Laurence Knight. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa and the sound engineer is Breen Turner. The FT's global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.

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