Barbara F. Walter

According to the V-Dem Institute, another research institute dedicated to tracking global democracy,[*] twenty-five countries are now severely affected by a wave of international autocratization, including Brazil, India, and the United States.

They persuade citizens that democracy as it has existed will lead to more corruption, more lies, and greater bungling of economic and social policy.

Within two years, a once-united Yugoslavia would violently disintegrate, and
the world would come to know the term “ethnic cleansing.”