Former diplomats claim Trump administration is influential in global democratic recession

Former diplomats claim Trump administration is influential in global democratic recession

On a Monday evening panel entitled “Democracy in the World,” Freeman Spogli Institute director Michael McFaul ’85 M.A. ’86 and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice ’86 said that the United States — particularly under the second Trump administration — has contributed significantly to a current trend of global democratic backsliding.  In the panel, which was the final lecture in the series POLISCI 31: “Which Side of History? How…