The emergence of an AI-powered authoritarian bloc led by China could warp the geopolitics of this century—preventing billions of people in the world from ever securing any measure of political… Read more »
In his July 23 address at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that 50 years of engaging China had failed, denounced Chinese leader Xi Jinping… Read more »
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried. The maxim, made famous by Winston Churchill, was actually expressed six months earlier by… Read more »
SDI named “Best CSO of the Year” in Sierra Leone” Posted by Society for Democratic Initiatives, Sierra Leone – SDI on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Governments are using the… Read more »
Fetishizing the labels we give to acts of horror skews our responses to other atrocities, says a prominent expert. In recent days the horrendous treatment of the Uighur community by… Read more »
The Venezuelan opposition hoped that 2020 could bring new momentum after several failed pushes to overthrow Nicolás Maduro’s regime. Then came the coronavirus. Analysts say the pandemic has helped suck… Read more »
“Were we wrong to have thought that MBS could bring progress to Saudi Arabia?” Ash’s @masoudtarek writes about the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in a new review essay… Read more »
Fighting False News in Ukraine, Facebook Fact Checkers Tread a Blurry Line https://t.co/ICn1v0TtdK — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 27, 2020 To understand the complexity of policing online disinformation, consider the… Read more »
.@NDI #Kosovo public opinion research on Dialogue with Serbia pic.twitter.com/DEisvoA6tL — Robert Benjamin (@rbenjamin_ndi) July 24, 2020 Kosovo’s foreign minister has asked Apple to correct her country’s borders in… Read more »
I’m looking forward to taking part in this event on July 28, at @fiu_sipa: “China’s Sharp Power: Beijing’s Growing Repression in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Around the World” https://t.co/NfxD2y9KZ5… Read more »