“Democracy’s Surprising Resilience” is the focus of an article in the National Endowment for Democracy‘s Journal of Democracy. Steve Levitsky and Lucan Way write that authoritarians have found it difficult to… Read more »
The Islamic Republic of Iran may be gloating* over the Hamas attack on Israel but it has entered a serious domestic crisis that threatens the regime’s long-term survival and that… Read more »
China’s Communist regime employs a variety of deceptive and coercive methods in its efforts to influence the international information environment, according to a new analysis. Beijing’s information manipulation spans the… Read more »
The conventional wisdom that the new geopolitical competition will not spread to the global South, as it did during the first Cold War, is wrong, at least when it comes… Read more »
People with ties to China’s law enforcement agencies conducted the largest known covert digital influence operation aimed at discrediting the West and promoting Beijing’s agenda across more than 50 social… 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 »
President Biden has made it his mission to wage what he momentously calls “the battle between democracy and autocracy.” But what to do when the ones he believes are undermining… Read more »
Ten years after Xi Jinping took the helm in China, Europe’s democracies have become more aligned on how to deal with Beijing, according to a new analysis. However, approaches towards… Read more »
Democracies and the rules-based international order are facing their “greatest challenge” since the Cold War, said President Tsai Ing-wen (above), calling for greater cooperation by democracies to counter authoritarian regimes…. Read more »
“709 Crackdown 2.0” Global call against China’s renewed crackdown on human rights lawyers https://t.co/nCqIa7GCKs — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 11, 2023 Civil society and pro-democracy groups are marking China Human… Read more »