South and Southeast Asia are on the front lines of the democracy-autocracy showdown
By
Prakhar Sharma and Gauri Kaushik
How do democracies die? Not with a dramatic coup, but through quiet, intentional dismantling—rules bent just slightly, laws rewritten, oppositions discredited and then disarmed. This warning from political scientists has proven prophetic across South and Southeast Asia, where the past decade has witnessed steady democratic erosion.
