The Center honors General Brent Scowcroft’s legacy of service and embodies his ethos of nonpartisan commitment to the cause of security, support for US leadership in cooperation with allies and partners, and dedication to the mentorship of the next generation of leaders. [...] that are used to chill and punish nonviolent collective action, and advocacy to promote enabling legislation; b) • Democratic governments should expand the quantity tools and activities to help activists and movements nav- of multiyear funding available to support the growth igate restrictive legal environments; and c) emergency of educational infrastructure for activists internation- legal and fi. [...] In all our cases [Benin, South bents reduce the likelihood that the rules of the game will be Korea, and Ecuador], multiple accountability mechanisms involv- restricted to “parchment documents.” They raise the cost to ing pressure from the public and from political elites worked the military of seeking to control the government, and increase together to avert further democratic decline.27 incentiv. [...] With the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, democratic diffusion across Eastern However, this democratic wave came to an end by 1926 Europe and other parts of the world expanded further, par- and began to recede. [...] For example, Huntington and others identified conditions While no single classification system is best for all such as global economic growth, the inability of authori- purposes, we refer to two kinds of types of democ- tarian regimes to perform economically and sometimes racies (“electoral” and “liberal”) and two types of militarily, the role of the Catholic church, and the foreign autocracies (“.
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