Moisés Naím
Carnegie Endowment
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Two Paradoxes
The world seems to be growing more paradoxical where democratic practices are becoming more popular among dictators. Democracy gives them something repression can’t - a modicum of legitimacy. → Read More
A New Energy Model
The plan to upgrade China’s energy mix, announced by President Xi Jinping during the 19th National Congress of the CCP, faces five political and economic challenges that could hinder its implementation. → Read More
America’s Second Civil War
The implicit purpose of many dystopian novels is to illustrate today’s world through the description of the future. → Read More
Persuade Voters to Keep Clicking
The Internet makes apathetic voters especially vulnerable to the manipulations of demagogues, particular interests, or even foreign powers. → Read More
Why We Need Political Parties
The world needs permanent organizations that earn political power and govern, that are forced to articulate disparate interests and viewpoints, that can recruit and develop future government leaders and that monitor those already in power. → Read More
Putin’s Latest Anti-American Intervention: Venezuela
For all its bellicose talk and new sanctions against Nicolás Maduro’s government, the Trump administration has been oddly silent about Russia’s role, perhaps preferring not to draw attention to the fact that Moscow is now the bankrupt nation’s lender of last resort. → Read More
The Uprising of the Global Middle Class
Economic progress and increased prosperity do not always buy more political stability. → Read More
The Uprising of the Global Middle Class
Donald Trump and Brexit were only two visible manifestations spurred in part by the revolt of the middle classes in rich countries, and the furies of middle class in poor and middle-income countries are also boiling, with unpredictable consequences. → Read More
Flags as Banners of Nationalism
Flags serve as a powerful symbol of a nation, its ideals, and its people. → Read More
Nicolas Maduro Doesn't Really Control Venezuela
And removing him from office won’t ease the country’s misery. → Read More
Nicolas Maduro Doesn't Really Control Venezuela
Maduro doesn’t really matter. He is simply a useful idiot, the puppet of those who really control Venezuela: the Cubans, the drug traffickers, and Hugo Chavez’s political heirs. → Read More
How to Become a Populist
Around the world, politicians can follow a simple recipe to present themselves as saviors of “the people.” → Read More
How to Be a Populist
Populism is not an ideology. Instead, it’s a strategy to obtain and retain power. → Read More
How Democracies Lose in Cyberwar
In 2016, Russia used the American system against itself. → Read More
How Democracies Lose in Cyberwar
The main political victims of cyberattackers have been leaders and public figures in democratic countries—especially the United States. → Read More
Threats To Democracy Here And Abroad
Many political scientists who study democracy are alarmed by developments in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere in the world. → Read More
As Robots Take Our Jobs, Guaranteed Income Might Ease the Pain
Despite all its defects, a minimum income guarantee may well become an inevitable policy. → Read More
Venezuela’s Democratic Façade Has Completely Crumbled
As Venezuela sinks deeper into the Western Hemisphere’s most intractable political and economic crisis, the time has come to ask some hard questions about how the Chávez regime could have conned so many international observers for so long. → Read More
Venezuela Is Falling Apart
In the last two years Venezuela has experienced the kind of implosion that hardly ever occurs in a middle-income country like it outside of war. → Read More
Venezuela Is Falling Apart
When a Venezuelan entrepreneur we know launched a manufacturing company in western Venezuela two decades ago, he never imagined he’d one day find himself facing jail time over the toilet paper in the factory’s restrooms. But Venezuela has a way of turning yesterday’s unimaginable into today’s normal. The entrepreneur’s ordeal started about a year ago, when the factory union began to insist on… → Read More