How to win at cyber warfare
The need for resilience in confronting Russia’s cyber warfare extends beyond bits and bytes to building up better political resistance to the influence operations that allows Russia to exploit its… Read more »
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Russian people will be ‘biggest beneficiary’ of sanctions
Populism is on the rise across Europe, often with help from Russian propaganda, analysts Dalibor Rohac, Edit Zgut and Lóránt Győri argue in a new AEI briefing. Western democracies have… Read more »
Defending Liberal Democracy in Emerging Markets
In recent years, populist and authoritarian leaders around the world have openly sought to discredit liberal principles and undermine democratic values such as the rule of law and checks on… Read more »
Amnesty demands urgent action for Cuban dissident ‘El Sexto’
Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado (‘El Sexto’ – left) continues to be detained in a maximum-security prison, a month and a half after his arrest, Amnesty International reports. “El Sexto”,… Read more »
‘Troubling escalation’ in efforts to silence Bangladesh garment workers
A broad crackdown on garment workers, union leaders and worker rights activists in Bangladesh marks a troubling escalation of efforts to silence garment workers and criminalize their fundamental rights to… Read more »
Inequality threatens world economy, democracy, says WEF
The widening gap between the rich and poor has emerged as one of the biggest threats to the global economy, said the World Economic Forum in a report published on… Read more »
Why democracy promotion has been superseded by ‘autocracy promotion’
The English language used to be an asset of the British and American democracies. Now it has become a weakness, argues the FT’s Simon Kuper: English-speaking countries are particularly easy… Read more »
When and how democracy aid is effective
Democracy aid is effective according to ‘large-N’ studies that seek patterns in a large number of cases. But ‘small-N’ investigations that consider a small number of cases in depth call… Read more »
‘New generation’ of populist demagogues threaten human rights
The rise of populist leaders poses a dangerous threat to basic rights protections while encouraging abuse by autocrats around the world, Human Rights Watch said today in launching its… Read more »
Vietnam will hedge its bets on Kerry trip
John Kerry is to bring down the curtain on the Obama administration’s pivot to Asia with a trip to Vietnam, a country at the heart of the international security struggle… Read more »