Searching for Answers to Troubled Democratic Transitions

September 24, 2015 Andrea G

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.

Moisés Naím | Agenda In Focus

August 28, 2015 Andrea G

World Economic Forum / YouTube

Moisés Naím: The End of Power

June 2, 2015 Andrea G

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.

Video: The supercycles affecting every Latin American country

May 4, 2015 Andrea G

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.

Moisés Naím - The End of Power

May 4, 2015 Andrea G

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.