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Four Views of Fragile, Fierce Democracies
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Four Views of Fragile, Fierce Democracies

On France, South Korea, Georgia, Romania, and the constant pull of authoritarian rule

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In Georgia, masked forces presumed to be representing Kremlin interests intimidate protesters fighting for their country's democracy, and future associations with the EU.

It’s been a rough year for democracy—or rather, a rough year for the concept of democracy. What is it? Where is it? And when we talk about democracies in decline, how often are we contrasting today’s democratic struggles with a rose-tinted view of democracies come before? Is democracy dying, or undergoing a long-overdue moult?

On one level, one might say…

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