Power 3.0 | Authoritarian Resurgence, Democratic Resilience Podcast
1) 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 around the world. As a result, hostile narratives are established that stigmatize these groups...Show More
2) Influence Operations During Elections in the Philippines and Beyond: A Conversation with Michael Navallo
With more than fifty national elections taking place during 2024, in countries that comprise more than half the world’s population, it has never been more critical to secure the integrity of the infor...Show More
3) Authoritarian Influence and Local Enablers in the Balkans: A Conversation with Donika Emini
In the Balkans, governing elites who benefit from partnerships with democratic states and participation in the E.U. integration process are, in some cases, simultaneously furthering the autocratic age...Show More
4) Digital IDs and Coercion in China and Venezuela: A Conversation with Iria Puyosa and Valentin Weber
Globally, democratic activists are confronting novel forms of digital repression pioneered by autocrats who increasingly share software, hardware, and knowledge across borders. Notably, the People’s R...Show More
5) Lessons Learned from Georgian Civil Society’s Response to a Repressive “Foreign Agents” Law: A Conversation with Tinatin Khidasheli
Around the world, threats to freedom of expression and association are growing. One crucial example is found in Georgia, a struggling democracy with a population of just under four million people. Las...Show More
6) China’s Authoritarian Challenge to International Human Rights Institutions: A Conversation with Sophie Richardson
In recent years, international institutions have become an increasingly critical arena of contestation between autocracies and democracies. China, in particular, has leveraged its participation in tho...Show More
7) Lessons from Ukraine: How AI Is Accelerating the Response to Authoritarian Information Manipulation
February 2024 marks two years since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of this crisis, the world has learned much from Ukrainians about countering authoritarian inf...Show More
8) Defending the Human Rights System from Authoritarian Assault: A Conversation with Rana Siu Inboden and Sophie Richardson
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 mechanisms...Show More
9) Knowledge Gaps in Exposing China’s Authoritarian Influence: Cross-Regional Conversations with John Fitzgerald, Niva Yau, and TtCat
As the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has become more authoritarian and closed to the world in recent years, its global influence has risen even more rapidly. Civil society and other democratic inst...Show More
10) Digitalization and Democracy in Mauritius: A Conversation with Roukaya Kasenally
In 2016, Mauritius announced the launch of a “safe city” project—a public-security initiative deploying cameras and other advanced digital technologies from the controversial PRC-based vendor Huawei. ...Show More
Digitalization and Democracy in Mauritius: A Conversation with Roukaya Kasenally
27:54 | Feb 2nd, 2023