anti-terrorism
December 17, 2015
In Kazakhstan, the New Year May Ring in New Online Restrictions
On November 30, 2015, the authorities in Kazakhstan fired off the latest salvo in authoritarian regimes’ battle against Internet freedom. Kazakhtelecom, the Central Asian country’s largest telecommunications company, released a...
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August 19, 2015
Reshaping the Rules: The Emergence of Global Authoritarian Counternorms
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The BRICS Bank. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization. What do these organizations have in common? For starters, China is a major player in each of them. And...
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July 21, 2015
The Authoritarian Challenge to Democratic Norms
Following the euphoria of the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, many policy makers and academics believed that democracy and respect for the rule-based international system progressively would establish...
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June 4, 2015
Saudi Arabia Tries to Stem the Tide
When the 2011 Arab Awakening toppled long-standing corrupt regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, Saudi Arabia took note. Fearing that this outbreak of political mobilization might prove contagious, Saudi Arabia has...
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