Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Recent attempted transitions to democracy in the Arab world, Asia, Africa, and elsewhere have met severe headwinds. Can today’s leaders draw on lessons from successful experiences of democratization in previous decades to overcome transitional traps and other failures of democracy? Drawing on a new book edited by Sergio Bitar and Abraham Lowenthal, Democratic Transitions: Conversations with World Leaders (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), this symposium probed the findings of a set of in-depth interviews with leaders of successful democratic transitions. Special focus was given to two current cases of pressing importance: Myanmar and Venezuela.
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World Economic Forum / YouTube
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The Agenda with Steve Paikin / YouTube
In 'The End of Power,' leading writer and thinker Moises Naim is basically saying, "Power ain't what it used to be." According to Naim, power nowadays is harder to exercise, more difficult to keep and there is much more competition for it. He discusses his ideas with Steve Paikin.
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Moisés Naím / World Economic Affairs
Latin America’s 34 nations are facing the end of three important supercycles that have helped drive economic growth and the alleviation of poverty, according to Moisés Naím, Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Real Instituto Elcano - Elcano Royal Institute / YouTube
Madrid, 30 April 2015. Moises Naim, distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, talks to Federico Steinberg, senior analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute, on his recently-published book titled "The End of Power", a startling examination of how power is changing across all sectors of society and a detailed exposé on modern criminal networks. But power is not merely shifting and dispersing, it is also decaying. Those in power today are more constrained in what they can do with it and more at risk of losing it than ever before.
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