Javier Pérez Sandoval is a postdoctoral researcher at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, and a research associate at the University of Oxford.
Oppositions resisting autocrats or antidemocratic incumbents could once get help internationally. But the space for democracy promotion has narrowed, while oppositions face divisions within their own ranks over how to best fight back.
Elected leaders across the globe are intentionally undermining their governments’ ability to govern. How and why do these leaders seek to dismantle the states they lead?
