The most likely outcome for a post-Covid world order in the decade ahead will not be a unipolar order or a bipolar Cold War-style competition, but a loose multipolarity, according… Read more »
Nathan Law, a leading pro-democracy activist and the youngest lawmaker in Hong Kong’s history, has taken first place in TIME’s readers’ poll of the world’s most influential people, TIME reports:… Read more »
Iran’s attempts to interfere in democratic institutions and processes have been on the rise, says a new report. The Islamic Republic’s tools and tactics resemble those employed by both Russia… Read more »
There has never been a more appropriate and urgent occasion to celebrate International Democracy Day, say advocates and analysts. On 25 June the joint Letter to Defend Democracy was issued… Read more »
Democracies have a capacity for innovation and reinvention that authoritarian states struggle with, a new book suggests. The kind of fear that China’s rulers need to instill in order to… Read more »
For @NewYorker, I surveyed the world of Russian trolls, disinfo, and active measures: such threats exist, but to “exaggerate their prevalence and potency” risks providing “an overly convenient explanation… Read more »
NEW: @IRIglobal, @Graphika_NYC & @iftf report uncovers a series of online campaigns by #CCP-linked actors targeting #Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election and its response to #COVID19 with narratives crafted to advance… Read more »
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 »
Democracy and Decency by Chris Patten @ProSyn https://t.co/2znlCO1ner — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 20, 2020 Whatever their Western apologists may claim, Russia and China are clearly trying to… Read more »
If the past century has shown us anything, it is that dangerous ideologies backed by powerful states rarely confine their malign conduct within their own borders, argues national security adviser… Read more »