Watching Washington’s failures in Afghanistan—where its strategic impatience left allies exposed—autocrats concluded that Western democracies have lost the will to endure, notes Tom Tugendhat, Chair of the British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee…. Read more »
Why do dictatorships emerging from social revolutions endure, even in the face of economic crisis, policy failure, mass discontent, and external pressure? In Revolution and Dictatorship, Steven Levitsky and Lucan… Read more »
It is a misconception that China’s leaders aim to export authoritarianism: it is less interested in regime type than in gaining buy-in for its interests, according to a new analysis…. Read more »
China is in the vanguard of normalizing autocratic trends, even within advanced liberal democracies like the UK, towards a political system that rests upon rule by law, a near non-existent… Read more »
A promising cross-sector initiative has the potential to create a platform for advancing democracy in the Indo-Pacific region, says a leading protagonist. At a recent forum of the Sunnylands Initiative,… Read more »
China’s ruling Communist Party has developed a new artificial intelligence tool that allows authorities to monitor party members’ loyalty to the regime, reports suggest. China’s Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center… Read more »
China is increasingly targeting U.S. state and local officials in influence operations designed to further the objectives of the ruling Communist Party, according to a new report by a U.S…. Read more »
Americans overwhelmingly view China as a “competitor” or an “enemy” to the United States, rather than a “partner.” And it appears that most U.S. adults do not think that their country is… Read more »
Speculation about political infighting and schisms at the top of the Chinese Communist Party are a common feature of its secretive system of appointing new leaders. But this year, political… Read more »
As Sudan’s popular revolt surged from late 2018, threatening to topple President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s government, he received a memo urging the government to run a social media campaign… Read more »