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IRI Releases New Handbook on Mentorship Relationships Across the Globe
"Recognizing the vital importance of mentorship, the International Republican Institute (IRI) has released a handbook that bolsters the relationship between mentors and mentees... In the guide, IRI breaks the mentorship relationship into five key steps, offering best practices and lessons learned from Laos, Panama and Cuba to provide a global view of the mentorship process" (International Republican Institute, 2020).
Τaking Stock Of Regional Democratic Trends In Asia And The Pacific Before And During The Covid-19 Pandemic
This GSoD In Focus Special Brief provides an overview of the state of democracy in Asia and the Pacific at the end of 2019, prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, and assesses some of the preliminary impacts that the pandemic has had on democracy in the region in 2020. (IDEA, 2020).
‘I’m Haunted by What I Did’ as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department
“If, early on, the Justice Department lawyers charged with selling the administration’s lies had emptied the ranks...the work of defending President Trump’s policies would have been left to the types of attorneys now representing his campaign...judges would have likely dismantled the Trump facade from the beginning” (Erica Newland, 2020).
Accountability After Trump
“How does America prevent the next Trump administration if it can’t properly hold the current one to account? This is the task facing the country and the next administration, as Joe Biden prepares to assume the presidency after running, and winning, on a platform of national unity and healing” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
China is Gnawing at Democracy's Roots Worldwide
“Thirty years on, the world, according to the Chinese Communist Party, is undergoing a once-in-a-century change that will turn the tide of global power from the West to the East, thus transforming the nature of post-World War II international order” (Vijay Gokhale, 2020).
Political Finance Reforms
“This report contributes to the discussion of the future of political finance by exploring...trends, opportunities and challenges related to money in politics that need to be taken into consideration when improving political finance systems” (Hamada and Agrawal, 2020).
Together, U.S. And China Can Reduce The Risks From AI
“Despite a deterioration in U.S.-China relations, both countries should seize this rare historical moment to develop common norms on AI” (Fu Ying and John Allen, 2020).
The essence of democratic backsliding in the European Union: deliberation and rule of law
"This paper analyzes recent trends of democratic backsliding within the European Union (EU)" and provides "a comprehensive analysis of the essence of democratic backsliding by analyzing changes between 1990 and 2019 on key indicators of democracy – polyarchy, liberalism, participation, deliberation and egalitarianism – documented in the V-Dem dataset, within the European Union. We find that democratic backsliding at its core is structured by a deterioration of the quality of deliberation" (Gora and de Wilde, 2020).
Covid-19 Crackdowns: Police Abuse And The Global Pandemic
"This briefing brings together a variety of documented cases of human rights violations related to law enforcement and the COVID-19 pandemic in 60 countries in all regions of the world." (Amnesty International, 2020)
Changing citizen behaviour to tackle climate change
The article discusses the impact of climate change and the role human behavior can play in mitigating the effects. The article also proposes multidisciplinary recommendations to tackle the issue of climate change and includes the opinions of experts such as policy analysts, EU Commission members, UN and various NGO delegates. (Friends of Europe, 2020).
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