Laila Soueif’s article about @Alaa is on the front cover of the International Edition of the New York Times today. #FreeAlaa pic.twitter.com/AAMDQpBvTb — Omar Robert Hamilton (@ORHamilton) December 18, 2021… Read more »
Buying Influence: How China Manipulates Facebook and Twitter https://t.co/lZR8reXbPc — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) December 20, 2021 China’s government has unleashed a global online campaign to burnish its image and undercut… Read more »
Democracy declined across Asia in 2021 but more stable democracies elsewhere can help in practical ways, such as by supporting independent media, @TheEconomist writes, citing @NEDemocracy-backed @rapplerdotcom‘s @mariaressa https://t.co/6vzecEIiXo —… Read more »
Canada will make support for democracy and human rights a foreign policy priority, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Support for democracy and human rights should be “a core priority in Canada’s… Read more »
This week’s jailing of Pham Doan Trang, who has been called Vietnam’s “most famous activist”, was “a searing indictment of everything that is wrong with authoritarian Vietnam today,” said Phil Robertson, deputy… Read more »
The Indo-Pacific is quickly becoming the most important region for democracy support activities, as it embodies both growing support for democracy and recent evidence of backsliding, according to a new… Read more »
China seems to be in the midst of a concerted push to re-define “democracy” in an international context, likely part of the push for a “Chinese discourse system” and telling… Read more »
“No task seems more urgent than the protection of democracy at home and abroad,” for President Joe Biden, notes James Traub, a nonresident fellow at New York University’s Center on… Read more »
The new strategic competition requires “rebuilding traditions of democratic cooperation across party lines in recognition that the United States will not be able to meet the China challenge if U.S. political… Read more »
Three decades ago, after the Berlin Wall fell and communism collapsed in the Soviet Union, the question of which model was prevailing wouldn’t even have seemed relevant. Democracy’s rise seemed… Read more »