... and even convergences on the policy level. Russia also provides much of the illiberal script, including propagandistic denunciations of the contemporary West, that the Hungarian ruling party has been so keen to adopt. Recent speculation has focused on how the Russian regime may be putting covert pressure...

...Lisandro E. Claudio In 2022, the presidential candidacy of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., son of the late dictator, raised fears the Philippines would slide further toward illiberalism. Marcos vowed to follow the example of his populist predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, enlisting Duterte’s daughter...

... and defied the Central European illiberal trend. The starkly divergent outcomes are attributable to differences that set the Czech political tradition apart from those of Poland and Hungary. The liberal, secular, and pluralist tendencies present in the Czech democratic myth have made it more difficult...

... Union Eastern Europe democracy populism authoritarianism illiberalism postcommunist Viktor Orbán Hungary Poland Czech Republic 90 What keeps European states committed to the EU project has not changed: it is economically much better to be inside the bloc than outside. The EU s Eastward...

...Holly Case An ambitious attempt to trace the uneven progress toward liberal democracy over several centuries of European history may have drawn the wrong conclusions for dealing with today's illiberals. Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day...

... order illiberalism United States Donald Trump Russia integration democratic values democracy Brexit United Kingdom trade In the range of international responses to Don-ald Trump s victory in the November 2016 US presidential election, German Chancellor An- gela Merkel s stood out. She...

... Holly Case Hungary Viktor Orbán Young Democrats Poland Jarosław Kaczyński Law and Justice party Fidesz populism refugee crisis immigration Islam authoritarianism Eastern Europe illiberalism communism PERSPECTIVE There s a lot we re getting wrong if we see the illiberal...

...Abby Innes Hungarian political and economic stresses over the past 25 years have been in many ways a magnified version of those afflicting Western Europe. © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Abby Innes Hungary illiberal...