Navigating North Korea’s power structure
In North Korea, all authority flows from Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. He has reinstated the party as the central hub to consolidate his power and bring elites to heel, analyst… Read more »
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Great power competition requires standing up for democratic values
In its 2018 National Defense Strategy, released in January, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump correctly identified great–power competition as the United States’ central security challenge. In recent years, rival states… Read more »
Disinformation vital to autocrats’ sharp power repertoire
Russian intrusions into democratic institutions around the world have been in the spotlight for some time. But as a recent letter from a bipartisan group of US senators warns, China… Read more »
Autocrats’ sharp power fails to curb activists’ U.N. role
An alliance of authoritarian states lost a bid on Friday to weaken a U.N. resolution upholding civil society activists’ role in highlighting human rights violations, according to campaigners. The United… Read more »
‘Don’t abandon democratic values’ – U.S. foreign policy’s ‘moral compass’
The rule-based international order is under unprecedented strain because of both internal stresses on leading democracies and rising pressure from such challengers as Russia and China, the order — but… Read more »
How to tackle ‘weapon of mass disinformation – WMD for the modern age’
The UK’s most senior representative in the European commission has set out a Brussels plan to crack down on disinformation campaigns executed by Russia and non-state actors, which he suggests were deployed… Read more »
Cambodia’s civil society “at a critical juncture”
Cambodia’s political, civic, and media landscape remains bleak as the July 2018 elections approach, with civil society facing an uptick in attacks and restrictions on their operations and funding, note… Read more »
A Blueprint for Countering Authoritarian Interference
The Russian government’s interference in the U.S. presidential election in 2016 and malign influence operations across the transatlantic community over the past decade have revealed vulnerabilities in democratic governments and… Read more »
Kleptocracy and kakistocracy feed on each other
In a kleptocracy, criminal behavior is not individual, opportunistic, or sporadic, but rather collective, systematic, strategic, and permanent. It is a system in which all the high-level government officials are complicit, where… Read more »
Democracy ‘is on the ropes’: Democracy Promotion in a Challenging World
The U.S. should do more to boost the struggling state of democracy in countries around the world, lawmakers from both parties said at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday, the Washington… Read more »