NEW: CSIS experts dive into China’s political warfare campaign, including intel ops, cyber ops, information & disinformation ops, united front activity, irregular military actions, and economic coercion, in our most… Read more »
Russia and China provide surge capacity to Africa’s kleptocratic networks, says a new report from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 showcased the… Read more »
In the quarter century after the Cold War ended, Western countries largely believed—or at least hoped—that the Soviet Union’s dissolution would inaugurate a new normal of benign relations between democracies and autocracies,… Read more »
Admiration for autocracy draws on the “myth of benevolent dictatorship” which is built on three flimsy pillars, notes Brian Klaas, an associate professor of global politics at University College London:… Read more »
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for the release of the prominent Azerbaijani opposition leader and scholar Gubad Ibadoghlu (right). The Narimanov district court sent Ibadoghlu to pretrial detention… Read more »
Applications for the 2023-2024 Penn Kemble Fellowship, based at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), are now open until July 26, 2023. Please read the instructions below and find the… Read more »
The Chinese and Russian governments are collaborating to undermine human rights accountability mechanisms in the United Nations, says a report from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), POLITICO reports. Beijing… Read more »
The world’s autocrats continue to bend social media to their will, according to Samuel Woolley, the author of “Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity.” Despots have… Read more »
The 2024 presidential elections and 2025 regional, local and legislative elections present a crucial opportunity for the reinstitutionalization of Venezuela’s democracy and rule of law and for the normalization of… Read more »
IN THE AFTERMATH of a devastating war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (above) will have to rebuild and fortify not only Ukraine’s cities and infrastructure but also its democracy, analysts Henry… Read more »