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Jul 15, 2025 19 min

How Democracy Is Doing Around the World

from World Class Hosted by Larry Diamond, Michael McFaul

Larry Diamond is the the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. Diamond’s research focuses on global trends affecting freedom and democracy and on U.S. and international policies to defend and advance democracy. His book, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency, analyzes the challenges confronting liberal democracy in the United States and around the world at this potential “hinge in history,” and offers an agenda for strengthening and defending democracy at home and abroad. His "Diamond on Democracy" series is available on the Persuasion website. If you like what you hear, you can get additional content from scholars at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies by following us on X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, and by subscribing to our newsletters and updates.

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Larry Diamond joins host Michael McFaul to discuss how civic discourse and political institutions are holding up in the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, and other democracies after the "Year of Elections."

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