July 17, 2020
Polish Democracy After Duda’s Re-election, with Melissa Hooper and Dalibor Rohac
Melissa Hooper and Dalibor Rohac join Andrea-Kendall Taylor and Carisa Nietsche to discuss the results of Poland’s presidential election and the prospects for democracy in Poland. Hooper is a lawyer and rule of law expert. She is the director of the Foreign Policy and Human Rights Advocacy program at Human Rights First, where she researches anti-democratic trends in Russia and Central Europe. Rohac is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies transatlantic relations and political trends in Central and Eastern Europe, and a research associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
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