The forces that imperil freedom
….. are identified and analyzed in the most-read essays from the Journal of Democracy, reminding us that 2021 was what JOD calls a year marked by high political drama, economic… Read more »
Category: Democracy Digest
Long road from Afghanistan to Albania
Since late August, more than 2,000 Afghans and their families—including prominent female leaders, journalists and civil-society activists—have been evacuated to Albania by third-party nongovernmental organizations, such as the Afghan Future… Read more »
Surveillance, personalization, disinformation…. How social media impacts democracy
Surveillance, personalization, disinformation, moderation and microtargeting are just some of the ways in which social media threaten democratic processes, according to a new analysis. They also undermine democracy by distorting… Read more »
Summit’s 10 Commitments can spur global democratic renewal
The list of invitees to this week’s Summit for Democracy reflects political considerations more than democratic values, resulting in “a tangle of contradictions and missed opportunities,” The Economist suggests. Attendees… Read more »
Pushing back against authoritarianism: Is there a strategy?
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 »
New strategy aims to dismantle kleptocrats’ playbook
The Biden administration on Monday unveiled steps to combat corruption globally, including assistance to foreign governments to increase financial transparency and new regulations on U.S. real-estate purchases to prevent money… Read more »
Did the EU help autocrats to weaponize migrants?
The violent clashes at the Poland-Belarus border resulting from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s cynical weaponization of migrants were in part caused by European Union deals with authoritarian regimes to curb… Read more »
‘Privatized subversion’: U.S. to launch global effort to curb digital authoritarians
The U.S. plans to work with other countries to limit exports of surveillance tools and other technologies that authoritarian governments can use to suppress human rights, an alleged practice in… Read more »
Ideological crusade? Autocrats attack summit for ‘weaponizing democracy’
Angered by President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, and filled with scorn for a dysfunctional West, China insists it is more democratic than America https://t.co/S2wF4QSWw4 from @TheEconomist https://t.co/S2wF4QSWw4 — David Rennie… Read more »
A missed chance to show democracies can deliver?
A Marshall Plan-like effort to vaccinate the world’s poor would confirm that democracies can deliver and reboot the US’s global standing. The global vaccine emergency is tailor-made for a tarnished… Read more »