What’s next for the West? The new normal
…. is the subject of a symposium on POLITICO. The chaotic outcome of the G7 in Canada over the weekend is simply a continuation of the ongoing demise of liberal… Read more »
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Anti-populist lessons from eastern Europe’s civil society
There are lessons to be learned on populism from new initiatives in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, argues Orysia Lutsevych, the manager of the Ukraine Forum with Chatham House, the London-based… Read more »
A New Wave of Censorship?
Censorship has evolved. In both authoritarian and democratic contexts, new forms of censorship online are now carried out through distributed attacks on freedom of expression – which are often insidiously difficult… Read more »
Unity of democracies’ imperative in face of Russia’s active measures
Russia has “pursued and will pursue even more aggressive cyber-attacks and disinformation campaigns with the intent of degrading our democratic values and weakening our alliances,” according to Dan Coats, the… Read more »
Three potent threats to liberal democracy
For much of the 20th century, the main threat to liberal and democratic societies came from militant and totalizing ideologies: fascism and communism, or revolutionary socialism, writes Will Marshall (left), President… Read more »
‘Disinformation Wars: Western democracies ill-prepared for coming wave of ‘deep fakes’
Western democracies are ill-prepared for the coming wave of “deep fakes” that artificial intelligence could unleash, according to Chris Meserole, a fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle… Read more »
The roots of Russian aggression
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday met the head of Russia’s oldest rights group as well as the widow of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel literature laureate and prominent dissident of… Read more »
Mustafa Dzhemilev: Crimean Tatars ‘known for history of nonviolent resistance’
Russia’s federal security service, the FSB, this week claimed to have discovered and terminated the activity of a so-called ‘extremist group’, allegedly created by Crimean Tatar leaders Mustafa Dzhemilev (above)… Read more »
Countering gray zone tactics in a ‘golden age’ of political warfare
Are Russia’s disinformation efforts finally paying dividends in Central and Eastern Europe? “The age of alternative facts and alternative realities has now reached Central Europe,” according to a new analysis…. Read more »
‘No foreign forces’ behind Armenia’s revolution
Armenia’s newly elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week on the sidelines of a summit of the Russia-led economic union… Read more »