Eric Chenoweth’s Articles
Eric Chenoweth is co-founder and co-director of IDEE and was also Executive Director of the Committee in Support of Solidarity from 1981–88 (see About the Directors). He is also principal author of Democracy Web, an extracurricular resource web site of the Albert Shanker Institute that includes 12 chapters on basic principles of democracy together with 36 country studies. Mr. Chenoweth has written and published widely on Eastern Europe and democracy issues and below are selected recent articles.
Answering Authoritarian Politics:
An Open Letter to an American Citizen About the 2016 Presidential Election September 16, 2016 by Eric Chenoweth PDF Version […]
How Democracies Perish
Revised July 28, 2016 PDF Version by Eric Chenoweth “Democracy may, after all, turn out to be an historical accident, a brief parenthesis that is closing before our eyes.” — Jean François Revel, How Democracies [...]
The Authoritarian Temptation
June 24, 2016 PDF Version by Eric Chenoweth In 1976, the French political theorist Jean François Revel warned of the “totalitarian temptation” in the West at a time when many intellectuals were attacking [...]
Miljenko Dereta: Idealist and Fighter for Democratic Serbia
Opening Remarks: Eric Chenoweth, Co-Director, Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe Public Memorial Meeting on the Anniversary of Miljenko Dereta’s Death Organized by Civic Initiatives / November 23, 2015 […]
Zbigniew Romaszewski: A Life in Human Rights
Zbigniew Romaszewski: A Life in Human Rights (MS Word) by Eric Chenoweth Published in Sarmatian Review, no. 415, April 2015 (PDF).
Dances with Dictators: General Jaruzelski’s Revisionists
The following article appeared in the journal World Affairs in its September-October 2014 issue. Twenty-five years ago, breakthrough elections were held in Poland that led, within three months, to the downfall of that country’s communist [...]