Democracies are falling behind globally. They are losing political influence, lagging behind economically and being threatened by antithetical systems. Even established democracies are experiencing endogenous erosion, politicisation of the judiciary, concentration of power in the executive branch and increasing social polarisation. Under these conditions, democracies will only remain viable if they become more resilient internally and maintain their political, economic and strategic capacity to act externally through stable and global democratic alliances.