Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave

<p><strong>A powerful autocratic wave is sweeping the globe. Over the last 17 years, no country remains untouched. </strong></p><p><em>Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave </em>builds on a growing body of research that finds that civil resistance movements-using tactics such as strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and a range of other nonviolent tactics-are one of the most powerful forces for democracy worldwide and therefore are central to countering the authoritarian threat.</p><p>It advances a three-part strategy to do so by:</p><p>1. Proposing new approaches and tools to support civil resistance movements.</p><p>2. Advancing a new international norm-the "Right to Assistance" to pro-democracy movements.</p><p>3. Outlining strategic and tactical options to constrain authoritarian regimes and drive up the cost of their repression.</p>