The following article appeared in The Washington Post, November 2, 2016. By Eric Chenoweth Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has posed many challenges to U.S. media. In at least one frightening respect, it has failed: News outlets are actively abetting an authoritarian and imperialist foreign power’s attempt to manipulate a U.S. presidential election to aid its [...]
Revised October 7, 2016 PDF Version by Eric Chenoweth Editorial boards of newspapers have become the most responsible civic voices in this year’s US presidential election. […]
An Open Letter to an American Citizen About the 2016 Presidential Election September 16, 2016 by Eric Chenoweth PDF Version […]
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 Perish, 1983 There have been many who prognosticated democracy’s doom. […]
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 political democracy, often in favor of Soviet communism. Forty years later, the danger posed by Soviet communism is gone, but [...]
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 (MS Word) by Eric Chenoweth Published in Sarmatian Review, no. 415, April 2015 (PDF).
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 regime. The events helped to spark the Velvet Revolutions that spread, within the next six months, to Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, [...]
By Eric Chenoweth I testified in a Polish court recently. That in itself is not unusual. I saw many people in the hallways of the administrative court building waiting to testify in various proceedings. But my testimony was unusual. I am an American, living in New York, without any claims of interest under Polish law. [...]
AFL-CIO Support for Solidarity: Political, Moral, Financial by Eric Chenoweth Click here to download the full article (.doc)