All posts tagged authoritarianism

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The WikiLeaks cables may be irresponsibly endangering democracy and human rights advocates in repressive regimes, but they also

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Unlike their Chinese or Iranian counterparts, Russia’s authoritarians have not established a Great Firewall or employed a cyber-army

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The new authoritarians in Russia and China may have shed their ideological baggage, but they have evidently retained

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The Obama administration has called on Russian authorities to punish the perpetrators of the “heinous” assault on Kommersant

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The forthcoming congress of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party is expected to endorse Kim Jong-Il’s attempt to have

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Continuing democratic regression in the non-Baltic former Soviet Union presents a serious challenge to policymakers, according to an

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Analysts are using the occasion of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s arrival in the United States today to reconsider

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The blend of political authoritarianism and market capitalism that is now lauded as the China model—or Beijing consensus

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The last time people in Central Asia were talking about exporting revolution, Leon Trotsky was running the Red

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The U.S. today rejected Russian proposals for new European security architecture, dismissing the notion of regional spheres of

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The new cynicism about U.S. support for democracy promotion is taking a toll, writes James Kirchik. Whatever the

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The eventual winner of Ukraine’s presidential election will now be determined in a second round run-off on February

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Kazakhstan has formally assumed its one-year chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Advocates

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The global democratic regression appears well-entrenched, a new Freedom House report suggests, as declines in freedom trumped gains