Setting Democratic Ground Rules for AI: Civil Society Strategies
Download the Report (LEE EL INFORME EN ESPAÑOL) A new report by Beth Kerley (International Forum for Democratic Studies) analyzes priorities, challenges, and promising civil society strategies for advancing...
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...
The Digitalization of Democracy: How Technology Is Changing Government...
Featuring insights from Krzysztof Izdebski, Teona Turashvili, and Haykuhi Harutyunyan, this collection of essays offers new perspectives on the complex ways in which digitalization is transforming state accountability.
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 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.
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