Testing the Limits: China and Russia’s Authoritarian Influence at Scale...
By Kevin Sheives, Alexander Cooley, Caroline Costello, William Nee, and Florindo Chivucute Table of Contents Executive Summary A New, More Permissive Context for Authoritarian Influence at Scale / Kevin Sheives...
China Salon on Emergent Digital Repression: How the PRC...
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
The National Endowment for Democracy hosts a discussion on how large language models (LLMs) and other advanced AI developments fit into the PRC’s wider apparatus of digital repression and worldwide influence projection.
Data-Centric Authoritarianism: How China’s Development...
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
The International Forum hosted a launch event for the new report, Data-Centric Authoritarianism: How China’s Development of Frontier Technologies Could Globalize Repression.
Twenty-First Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture: Serhii...
05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
The 2024 Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World was delivered by Serhii Plokhii, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.
Foreign Agents Laws
Silencing Civil Society through Stigmatizing Narratives: A Conversation with Gina Romero The growing trend of “foreign agents” laws have targeted prodemocratic civil society groups and activists...
The Struggle Against Authoritarian Influence in the Western...
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Please join the International Forum for Democratic Studies for a virtual event examining tools of authoritarian influence on democratic institutions and innovative responses.
The Struggle Against Authoritarian Influence in the Western Balkans: Montenegro...
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT A new report authored by Vanja Ćalović Marković explores how Montenegro has become an ideal testing ground for authoritarian actors, and how lessons learned from these...
Forum Focus: June 2024
Regular news from the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies on global challenges facing democracy around the world.
Winning the Battle of Ideas: Exposing Global Authoritarian Narratives and...
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT A new report by Dr. Joseph Siegle analyzes how top-order authoritarian narratives serve as a vital tool to amplify autocrats’ influence and reshape the international landscape. The...
Winning the Battle of Ideas: Exposing Global Authoritarian...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The International Forum for Democratic Studies has launched our newest report, “Winning the Battle of Ideas: Exposing Global Authoritarian Narratives and Revitalizing Democratic Principles,” by Dr. Joseph Siegle.
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