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 »
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 »
At a time when the world’s democracies are on a back foot against a pandemic and creeping authoritarianism, a new study finds hope in Latin America. The reason is a… Read more »
The pressing challenges that, from Latin America to East Asia, are shaping the balance between democracy and authoritarianism is the focus of the just-released July 2020 issue of the NED’s… Read more »
Ana Hebra Flaster reviews “The Cubans” by Anthony DePalma https://t.co/MJgD7dxbIf via @WSJ — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 23, 2020 The Cuban government imposes draconian rules on doctors deployed in… 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 »
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 »
“No to Gaza, no to Lebanon, my life only for #Iran.” Anti Islamic Republic protests in Behbahan, #Iran. https://t.co/1y6M3sOzub — Alireza Nader علیرضا نادر (@AlirezaNader) July 16, 2020 Iran… Read more »
In the short term, the new coronavirus (and the resulting economic and social wreckage) will accelerate the fragmentation and breakdown of global order, hastening the descent into nationalism, great-power… Read more »
Deepfakes, big data, and virtual reality—our working paper by @samuelwoolley @katie_joseff addresses how these emerging technologies may interact with the psychological factors that drive the demand for disinformation https://t.co/BzAyJs5VE4… Read more »