Democratic ideas resilient despite leadership void
A number of recent reports paint a grim picture for the future of global democracy. According to watchdog Freedom House, 2018 marked the 13th consecutive year of decline in global… Read more »
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Strategic Competition: Is China winning the ideological battle?
Beijing’s new national security White Paper flags the fact that America and China are now competing superpowers, and that China’s growing military forces are developing to the point where they… Read more »
‘Schismogenesis’: how autocrats turn civil society into a battlespace
Citizens in emerging economies are losing trust in social media because of the prevalence of disinformation and fake news, according to new research. An international study released on Monday from… Read more »
Clash of ideas key in political warfare against neo-authoritarians
Both Russia and China are governed by opaque, highly centralized and increasingly personalized governments. Political warfare, for such regimes, is second nature, according to Hal Brands, the Henry A. Kissinger… Read more »
Russia and the West fighting a ‘disinformation-age battle’
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused Russia on Monday of attempting to influence the outcome of a referendum in Macedonia on changing the country’s name that would open the way… Read more »
Abandoning the transatlantic ideological battle against autocrats?
Vladimir Putin’s attempt to restore Russia’s status as a great power rival to the United States lends new urgency to transatlantic relations, since Europe is the foremost theater in… Read more »
The New Netwar – jihadists winning online propaganda battle, report says
The war against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) is slowly moving from the battlefield to cyberspace, and a new study shows that United States is at the forefront of… Read more »
West ‘losing the war of ideas’ against extremist ideology
After more than a decade, efforts to counter the ideology of terrorist networks by the United States and its partners have yet to accrue a tangible return on investment, according… Read more »
‘Principled realism’ needs better ideas to combat extremist ideology
A “coalition of nations” in the Middle East is needed to stamp out “extremism,” U.S. President Donald Trump told the weekend’s Arab-Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “This is… Read more »
Western democracies ‘floundering’ in internet clash of ideas?
Russian efforts to influence the French presidential election show that the central aim of the Kremlin’s media outlets and networks is to foment fear and mistrust outside Russia and… Read more »