More than six in 10 countries around the world have adopted measures during the Covid-19 pandemic that threaten democracy or human rights, a report by the Stockholm-based democracy institute International… Read more »
Some warn that the current identity-driven populist discontent will cause democracies to die—an outcome that its foes, championed by Vladimir Putin, have schemed to bring about, The Economist reports: The… Read more »
“We’ve witnessed a sharp rise in nationalist rhetoric that plays to people’s fears instead of their hopes. Institutions and reforms are being challenged… compromise and cooperation dismissed.” Those are the… Read more »
The robustness of democratic institutions in large part rests on citizen activism, according to a leading civil-resistance expert. “Regular people should know that there are steps they can take to… Read more »
It is during a moment of democratic regression that opportunities for renewal and resilience become both evident and imperative. Around the world, COVID-19 has tested democracies and accelerated trends toward… Read more »
Is the United States about to give up its aspirations for global leadership and abandon any notion of moral purpose on the international stage? asks Eliot A. Cohen, Dean of… Read more »
How can the West combat disinformation without curbing its own free speech? This was one of the questions raised in this week’s CEPA forum on Resilience in the Face of Authoritarianism…. Read more »
Read @apolyakova on the threat to U.S. elections posed by disinformation and conspiracy theories emanating not just from Russia but also from China, Iran, Venezuela, and beyond:https://t.co/wkta5xoHhn — Foreign Affairs… Read more »
A Grand Strategy of Resilience https://t.co/u22BnZnz7L via @ForeignAffairs — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 14, 2020 To build a foundation of domestic strength is not to withdraw from the world—far… Read more »
For @NewYorker, I surveyed the world of Russian trolls, disinfo, and active measures: such threats exist, but to “exaggerate their prevalence and potency” risks providing “an overly convenient explanation… Read more »