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How Authoritarians Are Exploiting the Covid-19 Crisis to Grab Power
"For authoritarian-minded leaders, the coronavirus crisis is offering a convenient pretext to silence critics and consolidate power. Censorship in China and elsewhere has fed the pandemic, helping to turn a potentially containable threat into a global calamity. The health crisis will inevitably subside, but autocratic governments’ dangerous expansion of power may be one of the pandemic’s most enduring legacies." (Roth, 2020)
Coronavirus and the Dawn of Post-Democratic Europe
"Hungary has used the pandemic to abandon its last vestiges of democracy—and to dare the EU to do anything about it" (Hockenos, 2020)
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Fuels Trump’s Autocratic Instincts
"Trump apparently read from a teleprompter on Wednesday night. After weeks of dismissing the threat of a pandemic and of continuing to obsess about his own personal grievances, he finally sounded grave… precisely because Trump was not at his worst… in the extraordinary situation of a pandemic, what we are witnessing is peak Trump." (Gessen, 2020)
Democracy Report 2020. Autocratization Surges – Resistance Grows
"Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) produces the largest global dataset on democracy with some 28 million data points for 202 countries from 1789 to 2019." This report details the state of democracy in 2019 and presents data for democratically advancing and declining states around the world and global challenges.
Sharp Power And Democratic Resilience Series
"The Sharp Power and Democratic Resilience series is an effort to systematically analyze the ways in which leading authoritarian regimes seek to manipulate the political landscape and censor independent expression within democratic settings, and to highlight potential civil society responses.” This report examines and recommends solutions to the sharp power threat. (National Endowment for Democracy, 2020).
Europe's Authoritarian Challenge
The authors claim Europe is centered in “renewed great power competition and the resurgence of global authoritarianism”, and that “Migration, the rise of extreme nationalism, Brexit, and fractured ties with the United States all increasingly make European countries more vulnerable to Russian and Chinese authoritarian influence” (Taussig and Brandt, 2019).
Surveillance Giants: How The Business Model Of Google And Facebook Threatens Human Rights
"To participate meaningfully in today’s economy and society, and to realize their human rights, people rely on access to the internet...companies' surveillance-based business model is inherently incompatible with the right to privacy and poses a threat to a range of other rights and freedoms." (Amnesty International, 2019)
Global vs. National
Deep-dive discussions into the global goals agreed by world leaders in 2015 with the aim of achieving a better world by 2030. Workshops will be hosted on 4 of the 17 global goals
Collapse of the Traditional Party
Today traditional parties in many mature democracies have become polarized, weakened and alienated from the public, giving way to populist parties and leaders who put their personal interests above the values of democracy. Why has this happened, and what is the remedy?
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