How to Lose a Democracy

Description

Peter Pomerantsev, SNF Agora senior fellow, will moderate a panel titled "How to Lose a Democracy," hosted by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins and co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Model United Nations.

Panelists:

• Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins assistant professor of international relations and European studies
• Sanjay Ruparelia, 2023–24 SNF Agora visiting fellow
• David Smolansky, 2024–25 SNF Agora visiting fellow
• Otto Kienitz, SNF Agora Institute postdoctoral fellow

This U.S. election is meant to be all about "saving democracy." But is that true? What does it really mean? As Agora's Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev explore in a new Johns Hopkins–Atlantic podcast series, Autocracy in America, modern authoritarianism can be hard to spot. This panel will look at elections in America and across the world in 2024—from Venezuela to Türkiye, India to South Africa, the Caucuses to central Europe—to define how democracy is really at stake. Will we even notice if we lose democracy before it's gone—and what can be done to stop the slide to autocracy?

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