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Kwasi Prempeh on the State of Democracy and Democratic Resilience

In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Atje Drexler and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Kwasi Prempeh about the core function of a democracy, why is not working for many people in its current form and democratic resilience.


This episode was produced in cooperation with the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum of the Körber Stiftung.


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