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Anatomy of Illiberal States

Dr. Alina Polyakova, a former CRWS Graduate Fellow and now a Foreign Policy Fellow at Brookings, has published a new report with colleagues entitled, "The Anatomy of Illiberal States: Assessing and responding to democratic decline in Turkey and Central Europe." The report "analyzes the illiberal toolkit--a set of tools, tactics, and practices used by forces in power to roll back checks and balances." Read more here.

Conference on Right-Wing Studies: April 25-27, 2019

CRWS is pleased to host the Inaugural Conference on Right-Wing Studies. This interdisciplinary conference will feature dozens of new and established scholars from around the world whose work deals with the Right as a social, political, and/or intellectual phenomenon from the 19th century to the present day. Read more about the conference here.