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Available Now: New Book by Michael McFaul
In Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder, FSI Director, New York Times bestselling author, and former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul offers a clear-eyed look at how the rise of autocratic China and Russia are compelling some to think that we have entered a new Cold War—and why we must reject that thinking in order to prevail.
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06
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Jan
08
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08
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Featured Scholars
Larry Diamond
Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy
Recent Publication
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
Didi Kuo
FSI Center Fellow
Recent Publication
The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't
Kathryn Stoner
FSI Senior Fellow
Mosbacher Director, CDDRL
Recent Publication
Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in A New Global Order
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