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International IDEA believes that diversity can strengthen democracy and peaceful cohesion if values of inclusion and the right for equal participation for all citizens are protected. Without safeguarding these values, a diverse country like Sudan may find itself in a very risky situation that can lead to never ending violent conflicts.
As global democracy faces headwinds, EU should lead in new geopolitical reality
In a bid to deepen relationships across the Asia-Pacific region, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance’s (International IDEA) Secretary-General Dr Kevin Casas-Zamora met with multiple political, electoral and stakeholder groups in Australia and India during his October 2022 mission to the regional headquarters in Canberra.
The European Union has traditionally been one of the world’s staunchest advocates of democracy but major changes have affected the global democracy landscape in recent years. With the support of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, International IDEA led an analysis of the EU’s external democracy policy during 2022 to inform the EU discussion on democracy during Sweden’s 2023 Presidency of the Council of the EU.
This Policy Brief provides a snapshot of the full Recommendations Report: The EU’s External Democracy Policy in a New Geopolitical Reality. Its purpose is to inspire future EU democracy policy to ensure it can defend democracy globally and at home in line with the EU’s declared intention to become a stronger geopolitical player.
Despite three decades of international support and an intensified, structured EU accession process in the last 20 years, democracy is not faring significantly better in the region. Montenegro, Serbia and, as of mid-2022, also Albania and North Macedonia are candidates for EU accession with official negotiations opened. Bosnia and Herzegovina was granted status of candidate country under the condition of further reforms in October 2022.
The state of democracy in the Latin America and the Caribbean region is clouded by the global geopolitical context affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, a hard-hitting recession and the commercial tensions between China and the USA.
The European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) covers six countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The Covid-19 pandemic put a strain on fledgling democracies in the EaP region, aggravating pre-existing concerns, such as the weak rule of law, insufficient accountability of executive branches vis-à-vis legislatures and fragile media freedoms (see International IDEA 2022).
Over the last five years, the continent has witnessed a decline in the number of democratic systems, with 45 per cent of the population now living in hybrid regimes. The quality of democracy is also impacted by increasing insecurity, attempts at reversing the presidential term limits, contested electoral outcomes and an increased role for the military in regime transitions.
This technical paper explores and analyses diversity management in Sudan’s democratic transition arrangement (2019–2021). It primarily utilizes the concept of ‘diversity management’ for legislative practice. To administer geographical, multicultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual population diversity, Sudan has passed, in accordance with international principles, many laws to manage diversity in a way that reflects strategic national planning.
Desde el 6 al 13 de diciembre de 2022, el secretario general de IDEA Internacional, Kevin Casas-Zamora realizó una visita oficial a varios países de América Latina, con el objetivo de continuar con la promoción de la democracia, el fortalecimiento de las relaciones con los estados miembros de IDEA Internacional, y explorar una mayor colaboración con los países de la región.
As the political crisis in Peru worsens, Alicia del Aguila explores its roots. Key to understanding it are the political polarisation of recent years, tensions between the Central and Southern Andes, and the historical marginalisation of rural and indigenous people.
El Instituto Internacional para la Democracia y la Asistencia Electoral (IDEA Internacional) lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento de 55 personas como consecuencia de las movilizaciones sociales realizadas en Perú desde hace más de un mes y expresa su preocupación pues la aguda crisis, lejos de encaminarse a su resolución a través de un diálogo que encuentre salidas aceptables para todos, parece prolongarse en el tiempo con nefastas consecuencias para la democracia peruana y el futuro de sus
2023 will be complex and challenging for Latin America. The region will face an unfavourable international context in which it is expected, according to the IMF, that there will be a simultaneous slowdown of the three leading economies (United States, China, and the European Union), whose effect will be weak global economic growth of 2.7%, which could even fall below 2% according to its Director Kristalina Georgieva. A third of the global economy is forecast to be in recession this year.
El lanzamiento del informe Riesgo Político América Latina 2023 del Centro de Estudios Internacionales de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (CEIUC) encuentra a una región convulsionada.
IDEA Internacional, con el apoyo de la Comisión Europea, ha estado contribuyendo a aumentar el apoyo coordinado y basado en evidencia eficaz para la democracia en todo el mundo a través del proyecto Supporting Team Europe Democracy (STED). Dentro de este proyecto, la Cumbre por la Democracia (S4D) surgió como una oportunidad única para colocar la democracia en el centro de la agenda global.
El asalto del Palacio Presidencial, el Congreso y la Corte Suprema de Brasil por parte de partidarios del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro el domingo es un ataque inaceptable, ilegítimo y peligroso contra la democracia y el resultado de las elecciones libres y justas.
The storming of Brazil’s Presidential Palace, Congress and Supreme Court by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday is an unacceptable, illegitimate and dangerous assault on democracy and the outcome of free and fair elections.
International IDEA calls on the international community to unite behind Brazil's democratically-elected government and supports the efforts of its institutions to defend the democratic order, uphold the rule of law and restore peace.