Cubazuela ‘adversaries’ decapitate opposition
The U.S. Department of Energy has determined that Cuba and Venezuela are “foreign adversaries” that might target the U.S. electrical grid, The Miami Herald reports: The executive order aims… Read more »
Category: Democracy Assistance and Promotion
Hong Kong set to become the new Tibet?
As the Dalai Lama celebrates his birthday, @NDI‘s Asia team examines the future of the #Tibetan cause & its enduring commitment to #democracy 👇https://t.co/pfZQt1cEX8 — National Democratic Institute (@NDI)… Read more »
How to counter disinformation’s deadly fallout
Deepfakes, big data, and virtual reality—our working paper by @samuelwoolley @katie_joseff addresses how these emerging technologies may interact with the psychological factors that drive the demand for disinformation https://t.co/BzAyJs5VE4… Read more »
‘United front’ could contain global spread of China’s authoritarianism
After writing on @Independent and @DailyMailUK, here my latest op-ed on @TheSun . Visually attractive design with an enlightening quote: “warn the world of China’s brutal regime.” Let’s work… Read more »
Democratic innovation key to strategy for shaping post-COVID world
While a recent global initiative cautioned that autocrats are exploiting the pandemic to erode democratic values and institutions, COVID-19 may yet allow the “re-imagining and strengthening of democracy” through innovative… Read more »
Advancing democratic values after the liberal international order
The question the U.S. is likely to face is not whether to restore the liberal international order. It is whether the US can work with an inner core of allies… Read more »
Disinformation sows doubt and confusion
Disinformation sows doubt and confusion in democratic systems, notes Moira Whelan, the National Democratic Institute’s Director of Technology and Democracy. That’s why NDI supports partners’ efforts to create tools to… Read more »
Democracy advocate Lorne W. Craner, R.I.P.
The democracy assistance community is mourning the passing of Lorne W. Craner, the longest-serving president of the International Republican Institute (IRI). “Lorne embodied the vision of President Ronald Reagan,… Read more »
Persuasion: Democracy’s defenders now ‘full of passionate intensity’?
Over recent years, the political and intellectual energy has been with illiberal movements. Too often, the advocates of free speech and free institutions have been passive, even fatalistic. It is… Read more »
Supporting civil society for democratic citizenship
This is a moment for critics of socially irresponsible media companies to take on platforms that enable foreign interference, provide a megaphone for extremists and hate groups and make herding people into… Read more »