Sudan’s transition government has appointed 18 civilian state governors as a key part of a democratic transition after the ouster of Omar al-Bashir last year, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said… Read more »
How do state actors with full-spectrum propaganda capabilities put them to use in modern-day information operations? a new report asks. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long prioritized disinformation to… Read more »
A majority of Europeans in the 16-29 age group believe authoritarian states have a better shot at addressing the climate crisis than democracies, according to a recent Oxford-backed survey. The… Read more »
On July 31, @JCPinckney, @EricaChenoweth, @Ras_Karya, @HardyMerriman, Huda Shafig and @USIP’s @MariaJStephan will discuss why some movement-driven transitions end in democracy and others don’t: https://t.co/KItDBpoK9V #PeoplePower4Peace — U.S. Institute… Read more »
“Transnational repression” is a term used to describe how countries silence their exiles and diasporas abroad. It encompasses a spectrum of tactics, from assassinations, to renditions, to spyware, to intimidation… Read more »
In a recent Atlantic Council/German Marshall Fund virtual meeting, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressing the importance of making NATO a more global alliance to defend democratic values in a… Read more »
China is using its technological rise to develop “digital authoritarianism” to conduct surveillance, control the internet and censor information not just within its borders, but around the world, a… Read more »
Using Taiwan’s most recent elections as an example to elucidate the nature of Chinese propaganda and disinformation, a new report identifies China’s motives, tactics, and actors in its foreign information… Read more »
UK ministers accused of turning blind eye to any Russian interference https://t.co/GDoyWZp96D via @financialtimes — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 21, 2020 The British government “actively avoided” investigating the “new… Read more »
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the political business model of populists is not “giving the people what they want”. Rather, it is an exclusionary form of identity politics, where incessant talk… Read more »