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What Can Be Learned from International Perspectives on Autocracy and Democracy?

May 21, 2025 | 

Online

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PDT

What happens when the contours of a constitutional democracy start to change? What are the most important warning signs and red lines? How can we tell the difference, and what are the steps that can strengthen, rather than weaken, a society’s democratic trajectory when under stress? This conversation will explore recent turns toward authoritarianism and other challenges for constitutional forms of government and identify key lessons.

Featuring

Timothy Snyder

Chair in Modern European History; Director, Public History Lab; and Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

University of Toronto

Stephen B. Heintz

President and Chief Executive Officer

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Miguel Angel Lara Otaola

International advisory board member

Electoral Integrity Project

Kim Lane Scheppele

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values

Princeton University