Foreign Affairs May/June Issue Launch: Is Democracy Dying? A Global Report

Monday, May 21, 2018
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Speakers
Yuen Yuen Ang

Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan; Author, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

Yascha Mounk

Lecturer, Government, Harvard University; Author, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

Presider
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

Executive Editor, Foreign Affairs; Author, The China Mission: George Marshall’s Unfinished War, 1945-1947

Foreign Affairs Issue Launch

Daniel Kurtz-Phelan discusses the May/June 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine with contributors Yuen Yuen Ang and Yascha Mounk. The latest issue reports on how the current American political landscape is contributing to a domestic and global democratic regression, and how that endangers the international landscape.

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