Hamed Ahmadi

Hamed Ahmadi is a reporter and Allbritton Journalism Institute fellow at NOTUS, where he covers foreign policy and Congress. He previously reported for HuffPost and was a graduate fellow at American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop.

Liberal Democracy’s Crisis Is Capacity, Not a Superior Rival

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Francis Fukuyama, Chrystia Freeland, David French and Fareed Zakaria argued that liberal democracy is in a serious internal crisis but has not been displaced by a more viable political model. Fukuyama said no universal successor to liberal democracy has emerged; Freeland pointed to Ukraine as evidence that decentralized democratic societies can still mobilize effectively; and French warned that liberalism’s critics often identify real social failures before turning to authoritarian remedies. Their shared concern was that democracies will keep feeding strongman politics unless they can deliver purpose, competence, representation and trust.

The Aspen InstituteJun 30, 202619 min read