China’s ruling Communist Party managed to stifle the democratizing impact of the Internet, but can it curb the liberating potential of AI? Five months after ChatGPT set off an investment… Read more »
Hybrid threats pose a specific danger to democracies, because they target core democratic processes and weaken citizens’ trust in their institutions and governments. And they are expected to grow in… Read more »
A court in Belarus on Thursday sentenced a reporter for the now-closed local edition of one of Russia’s most popular newspapers to three years in prison for insulting the country’s… Read more »
The intensification of systemic competition is now the dominant geopolitical trend and main driver of the deteriorating global security environment, according to a new report. “[U]nless democracies … do more… Read more »
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, today expressed his concern over the deepening crackdown against perceived political opponents and civil society in Tunisia, including through measures taken by… Read more »
The weakening of Israel as a bastion of democracy in the Middle East is not in the interests of the western world, and could possibly become a danger to the… Read more »
Voices from the developing world can build the case that democracy is the best pathway from poverty to prosperity, an Atlantic Council forum heard this week (above). Democracy is the… Read more »
China is using its economic might to advance its foreign policy agenda in Latin America, including persuading countries to stop recognizing Taiwan’s sovereignty, argues Julio Armando Guzmán, a former presidential… Read more »
The United States could lose the digital future in two ways, according to Defending Digital Freedom and the Competition for the Future of the Global Order, an initial foray into… Read more »
The tug of war between democracy and autocracy will persist over the next decade, with democracies potentially losing some ground, according to a new Atlantic Council survey: Respondents as a… Read more »