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Patrick Quirk

Patrick Quirk

Patrick Quirk is senior director of the Center for Global Impact at the International Republican Institute (IRI), and a nonresident fellow in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution.

Articles and Events

As Democracy Goes, So Goes Climate
Policy Memo

As Democracy Goes, So Goes Climate

Working on the climate problem requires working on the undemocratic regimes that exacerbate it.

Daniel Twining, Patrick Quirk
Grooming Autocrats
Short Take

Grooming Autocrats

China is exporting more than infrastructure to Africa.

David Shullman, Patrick Quirk
Parties Onward

Parties Onward

Political parties remain part and parcel of democracy, yet they are under stress in the West and farther afield. Two close observers offer a roadmap for supporting them.

Patrick Quirk, Jan Surotchak