![]() 60% of respondents consider China’s posture on the international stage to be “worrying” 52% feel the same way about Russia and 37% about Turkey. KEY FINDINGSĪmong the authoritarian powers (China, Russia, Turkey), China is the one that most worries the democratic world. 45 languages for 55 countries: Albania, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States. The questionnaire was administered to 47,408 people, in each of the national languages, i.e. This survey was born out of close cooperation between the Fondation pour l’innovation politique (France), the International Republican Institute (the U.S.), the Community of Democracies (intergovernmental organization), the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Germany), the Genron NPO (Japan), the Fundación Nuevas Generaciones (Argentina) and República do Amanhã (Brazil). This is the troubled context within which we have created the global survey Freedoms at risk: the challenge of the century, conducted in 55 countries. Our data show that when they voice disapproval, more often than not, the object of their criticism is not the idea of democracy itself but rather the way in which democracy functions in their country. In the face of these major challenges, democratic societies still have one priceless asset that is illustrated in the results of our study: the citizens surveyed have confirmed their allegiance to freedoms and to democracy. For the democratic world, the combination of external and internal threats marks the obvious danger of the moment. Internally, not since the 1930s have identity conflicts, populism, authoritarianism, racism and anti-Semitism undermined democratic societies to such an extent. ![]() Externally, the current tensions between the democratic world and authoritarian regimes hark back to the Cold War. Freedoms at risk: the challenge of the century A global survey on democracy in 55 countriesĭemocracies today find themselves in a perilous situation, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall signaled their moment of triumph. ![]()
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