Defending the Global Human Rights System from Authoritarian Assault: How Democracies Can Retake the Initiative 

About the Event Authoritarian influence in multilateral institutions is growing rapidly and poses a serious threat to democratic and human rights principles. Repressive governments have worked to undermine...

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China’s Global Challenge to Democracy

A Curated List of Material on China’s...

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Combatting Terrorism: National, Regional, and Global Lessons for the Next Decade and Beyond

Remarks by Carl Gershman to The Inter-University  Center for Terrorism Studies conference: April 30, 2018, National Press Club, Washington, DC Read his presentation in the report: 

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Russia As A Global Challenge

About the event Russia appears today as an assertive power ready to weaken international norms and kick over the global chessboard. Even as they confront economic stagnation and popular demoralization at home, the Russian authorities seek to...

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Remarks by Carl Gershman at the Conference on “The United States and Global Democracy Support”

Does Democracy Matter? Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,...

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The Global Campaign Against Democratic Norms

About the EventUsing a number of justifications, including that of regional security or defending state sovereignty, authoritarian regimes are pursuing new antidemocratic norms. To shield themselves from international scrutiny, resurgent authoritarians...

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Testing the Limits: China and Russia’s Authoritarian Influence at Scale in a New Period of Impunity

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FOREIGN AGENTS LAWS

FOREIGN AGENTS LAWS [caption id="attachment_40691" align="aligncenter" width="478"] An anti-”foreign agents” law poster in Moscow,...

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