Kleptocratic Cooperation in Africa: How Russia and China Undermine Democracy
TWEET | SHARE DOWNLOAD THE REPORT Authoritarian actors play a crucial role in enabling kleptocracy across sub-Saharan Africa. In a new International Forum report, J.R. Mailey (Global Initiative Against...
Defending the Global Human Rights System from Authoritarian Assault: How...
TWEET | SHARE DOWNLOAD THE REPORT Authoritarian influence in multilateral institutions is growing rapidly and poses a serious threat to democratic and human rights principles. Repressive governments have worked...
Shielding Democracy: Civil Society Adaptations to Kremlin Disinformation...
In a new report for the International Forum for Democratic Studies, the Forum’s Adam Fivenson, Detector Media’s Galyna Petrenko, and European Values for Security Policy’s Veronika Víchová and Andrej...
Kleptocratic Adaptation: Anticipating the Next Stage in the Battle Against...
In a new International Forum report, Jodi Vittori and Matthew Page argue that kleptocracy must figure more prominently in democracies’ foreign and domestic policymaking strategies.
Smart Cities and Democratic Vulnerabilities
Smart Cities and Democratic Vulnerabilities highlights three essays that survey the dangers smart cities present to democracy, explaining the importance of embedding smart city projects in participatory processes...
The Big Question: How Has Beijing Suppressed and Influenced International...
Six experts consider how Beijing has sought to suppress and influence responses from the international community to its continued repression of Uyghurs in China and abroad.
The Global Struggle Over AI Surveillance: Emerging Trends and Democratic...
This report explores the challenge of safeguarding democratic principles and processes as AI technologies enable governments to collect, process, and integrate unprecedented quantities of data about the online...
Lessons Learned from the Biens Mal Acquis Trials in France: An International...
An International Forum working paper on transnational kleptocracy and lessons learned from the Biens Mal Acquis trials in France, written by Tutu Alicante—now available in French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Global Insights | Waking up to Reputation Laundering as a Mechanism for...
These "Global Insights" illuminate the challenge of reputation laundering by kleptocratic regimes and oligarchs, and offer recommendations for countering its corrosive effects on democratic institutions.
An Offshore Cold War: Forging a Democratic Alliance to Combat Transnational...
A working paper from the International Forum, authored by Oliver Bullough, urges democracies to develop a unified response to the challenge of transnational kleptocracy by focusing on shared fundamental values,...
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