Two decades ago, Robert Putnam published a book that provoked a small cottage industry’s worth of responses from pundits and scholars alike, notes Alexandra Hudson, a former policy advisor at… Read more »
How can the West combat disinformation without curbing its own free speech? This was one of the questions raised in this week’s CEPA forum on Resilience in the Face of Authoritarianism…. Read more »
The post-war institutional arrangements at domestic and supranational levels worked exceptionally well, ushering in four decades of democratic flourishing, international peace, macroeconomic stability, and widespread prosperity. Never before have… Read more »
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 »
The contours of a new U.S.-China “tech cold war” have become clear, but who, if anyone, will benefit from this competition remains an open question, notes Adam Segal, Director of… Read more »
The personal details of millions of people around the world have been swept up in a database compiled by a Chinese tech company with reported links to the country’s military… 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 »
The effect of the new national-security law that China imposed on Hong Kong is extending far beyond the territory to American college campuses https://t.co/eydYcm97M3 via @WSJ — Democracy Digest… Read more »
In response to the many recent incidents of violence, civil society organisations and activists in Sudan have started a campaign under the name “Protect the right to live”, Dabanga reports. Dozens… 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 »