716
Episodes
296
Transcribed
12
Ratings
Daily
Cadence
2020
First episode
3M
YouTube views

About IIEA Talks

Sharing Ideas Shaping Policy. The Institute of International and European Affairs is an independent policy research think-tank based in Dublin.

Publisher
IIEA
Category
government
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
30 Jan 2020
Latest episode
30 Sept 2026

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296 of 716 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Stuck: The Price of Latin America's Democratic Plateau

  2. 25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    The Protection of Undersea Cables: Government, Industry, and Academic Perspectives

  3. 25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Lithuania’s EU Presidency Priorities

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Stuck: The Price of Latin America's Democratic Plateau

Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So of all the countries in the third wave that at some point stagnated, saw democratic stagnation, only one of them was able to break out of it and become a sustained high-quality democracy, Slovakia. In Latin America, not a single one of them was able to, once a democracy stagnated, get out of it. Brazil is the only case that had some advancement after stagnation, but it was also recovering from the erosion that experienced in 2013 through 2018. Looking at it from the other end of the 53 third wave democracies that died, 49 were stuck in their last democratic year. So 92% of democratic breakdowns came from moments of stagnation. […]

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