Hackerman B17, JHU Homewood Campus, Baltimore
Moderator: Peter Pomerantsev
Panelists: Dr. Lisel Hintz, Dr. Sanjay Ruparelia, David Smolansky, Dr. Otto Kienitz
Co-Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Model United Nations
This US election is meant to be all about ‘saving democracy’. But is that true? What does it really mean? As Agora’s Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev explore in a new JHU-Atlantic podcast series, ‘Autocracy in America’, modern authoritarianism can be hard to spot. This panel will look at elections in America and across the world in 2024 – from Venezuela to Turkey, India to South Africa, the Caucuses to Central Europe – to define how democracy is really at stake. Will we even notice if we lose democracy before it’s gone – and what can be done to stop the slide to autocracy?